>>23486803

2/2

As far as I was concerned, the confrontation between Shouma and Masaru this episode was one I was looking forward to just as much if not more than the final confrontation between Shouma and Lango. There was just as much if not honestly *more* emotional weight and buildup behind it, yet it got fucking offscreened! I was genuinely shocked by that. It really felt like the production team knew that was such an important moment because hand-off aside, Shouma and Masaru meeting is literally the final scene of the show. They just... don't show the actual meeting with emotional and dramatic weight because they ran out of time to put it in the show?

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>>23486597
>>23486584
They also never made it clear why Bouche was so invested in cybernetically augmenting his half-breed rapebaby son. From my recollection it seemed like they were hinting at some greater purpose behind his actions in getting Dente involved in surgically altering Shouma. It seemed to be a task that was consuming him significantly enough to the point that it was causing him to neglect his other children leading to their resentment of Shouma. It really does kind of seem like there might have been more story there that for whatever reason was left out. I can imagine some story with Bouche wanting to raise Shouma to be strong enough to deal with some great threat (maybe the cut rival mafia that eliminated the Stomachs in Q2, or the government). Perhaps this was cut because explicit focus on the rapebaby element might've been a bit risky, or for budget reasons preventing them from focusing more on the Granute world. But without doing so, all we're left with is that Bouche liked fucking the livestock.

But again, overall, I did love this show. I think the strengths make up for the weaknesses, and it left a very good taste in my mouth at the end - broadly very sweet, despite some bitter bits throughout.