How would you rank episode 21 of
Shy (TELEVISION 2)? Neighborhood rating: 4.2
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She may not have actually been studying the blade in her extra time however Teru still swings a mean fire katana. That’s simply among numerous powerups included in this week’s episode of Shywhich speeds up bombastically towards the climax at the suggestion of the tower.
Like the previous episode, this one is heavy on the superhero theatrics– and those fireworks fly real. Mainly. It’s a little ridiculous for the story to imitate Teru is dead, just to restore her with a cool fire sword 2 minutes later on like absolutely nothing occurred. That’s a twist that I’m sure worked much better as a cliffhanger in manga type. The battle, once it gets going, has good choreography and results animation. It looks great and it’s readable. That’s more than you can state for a great deal of action scenes nowadays. The samurai battle setting likewise assists differentiate this from previous battles and I could not assist however smile at Teru getting so involved the minute that she begins calling her strategies aloud. That things is constantly cool.
The philosophical musings of this episode are great, too. Stimulated on by the voice of Purity, Teru questions the real function of her Heart-shift bracelets– and there’s a practically Buddhist angle to it. Those bracelets do not simply offer her properly themed superpowers. They assist in knowledge through the negation of the self. Simply put, by completely opening her heart to individuals, Teru can spiritually link to them and blur the lines that divide. We’ve currently seen her do this numerous times however this fuller description makes it less disconcerting when she gets in Mai’s memories. I hope Shy continues to establish this angle, checking out both the power and danger that includes Teru using this state of altruism.
I do not believe Shy required to define what damaged Mai in numerous words; it understood throughout simply great recently. I’m happy the story did so since it made my brain link the dots to Yū Yū Hakushowhich I’m presently expecting the very first time. Particularly, I’m in the middle of Yusuke’s huge battle with the Chapter Black bad guy Shinobu Sensui– and Sensui’s and Mai’s backstories share a lot in typical. Both were prodigies whose stringent idealism crashed catastrophically versus the grey morality of the real life, both wield light and dark energies, and both safeguard their minds with an overstated dissociative identity thing. Oh, and both Shinobu and Shinobi utilize the exact same “heart under blade” kanji (忍). I have no concept how either of their arcs wind up however I believe the present (to me) resemblances in between the 2 of them are fascinating adequate to talk about. Perhaps Bukimi Miki took some notes from Togashi when putting this arc together.
Thematically, Shy is absolutely thinking about what makes somebody decrease a dark course.