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EP. REVIEW: Undead Unluck

And you’re right, this kid is way better than Zenitsu. His personality outside of being scared is just way better.

I especially liked how they adapted the "English" and language disconnect.

while there is a to-do made of Andy's need to work around an ability that prevents him from healing himself in any way, the solution ends up being…honestly, I'm not quite sure. I get that Andy cheated the rules by framing his body explosion as an attack rather than a method of healing, but I'm still fuzzy on why Andy's powers ended up working just fine without much effort or puzzling out.

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while there is a to-do made of Andy's need to work around an ability that prevents him from healing himself in any way, the solution ends up being…honestly, I'm not quite sure. I get that Andy cheated the rules by framing his body explosion as an attack rather than a method of healing, but I'm still fuzzy on why Andy's powers ended up working just fine without much effort or puzzling out.

I'm usually wrong about everything so don't take my word for it, but as I understood it, it was just a matter of cutting off the part of his body that the scalpel had cut, as the scalpel wound is what won't heal. So if his head is cut off above where the scalpel cut him, his whole body can regenerate as normal (of course I use the word "normal" advisedly), as do his arms when his hands were cut off and he sliced off his forearms (which I guess he was able to do since he wasn't holding the object that cut him).

I think what made that all kinda confusing was that even when he looked at Fuko to mentally suggest she take the sword he was unable to use, the blood spray was already stopped with no trace on him or Clothy. And I have no explanation for that, unless Undead just automatically countered Unrepair. Which would mean he didn't need to cut off his head to stop the bleeding. When his hands were lopped off, they didn't keep bleeding either, so maybe some equilibrium is reached between healing and bleeding out? He can't regenerate from those stumps, but it won't kill him either?

I thought that was what I said, but maybe not. But I don't see the problem/solution as being goal-related, at least not to that extent. I still don't see that it needs to be. That is, I have trouble with the idea that the Un____ knows what you're thinking rather than simply working according to its rules. Like gravity doesn't know if you intend to fly or kill yourself, it just makes you fall either way. So if the part of Andy that was cut is no longer part of him, he can heal, and he can't get rid of that part by wielding a blade himself, but he can encounter something that will damage him, like if he ran into a wall...or a sword.

If however, what you say is correct, then even though stitching Fuko's wound up would not stop her bleeding, anyone attempting to would not even be able to do that much. So she'd be pretty much doomed unless they found some arsonist to set her on fire because they like to burn things, and that cauterized the wound. But I can wait to see how that gets resolved before digging in on one theory or another.

I know his blood and tissues disintegrate, but my point was that he was not still gushing blood even before Fuko cut his head off. Noting the lack of blood on Clothy was my way of pointing out that he must've stopped bleeding before he cued her, and he continued to not be bleeding as they ran toward Rip. So apparently he was in no danger of bleeding to death even if he'd done nothing. The only explanation I had for that was Undead and Unrepair hitting an equilibrium of some kind. I'm open to a better one though.

There was a bit of a pacing issue where they literally seemed to be filling time by showing the same exact scene twice in a row.

The flashback thing makes me think of Naruto Shippuden, but at least that had the excuse of being a long-runner.