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EP. REVIEW: Jūni Taisen: Zodiac War

How ironic that you would make that comment mere hours after All Hallow's Eve, Gina. It's the same principle: we don the costumes of things we fear to ward off evil. Geez.

Well... I'm afraid of sexy cowboys...

I imagine the next episode will cover Tiger's backstory, which I’m quite interested in now.

You can understand on an intellectual level who is winning or losing, and you might know a good game is being played based on the cheers of the crowd, but the experience remains an impersonal one.

Gotta say, though, I felt an immediate sense of comradery with Tiger at the end of this episode. Which is to say I would definitely be the one dressed in an outfit that looks like it was picked out of a discount Halloween store knocking back a couple of bottles in the park while waiting for the chaos of war to descend upon me and surviving only by virtue of being so weak nobody even bothers to notice.

I believe the answer to all those questions is spoiler[they're killing and profiling all the Zodiac members in reverse order, so the gimmick comes before all else in the writing.]

Seriously, people called this in episode two and the pattern has held true through six episodes, this is the most predictable battle royale ever. I have no idea why NisiOisin thought it was a good idea.

Seems you're right. When I read that theory I avoided looking up the order and was hoping it would prove untrue. spoiler[Now that I have looked it up I see my guess about Rat was right, but seeing as how he's now been established as the central philosophical perspective in the show, I guess it's not surprising anyway.]

It's really a shame though if sticking to that order means he has to contort established characters into positions which will enable that order to occur. If making sure his characters die in that order means betraying their traits in order to manufacture a weakness, or if it means ditching characters with thematically interesting perspectives, or if it means...spoiler[killing Monkey.]

Like, it makes a lot of sense that spoiler[Boar would go that way, given her explicit reliance on a very strategically inflexible tactic, her arrogance, and her extreme condescension to the abilities of the other competitors. Monkey was written as Boar's nearly dialectical opposite though, so it's pretty strange and extremely sad to see her go the same way.]

I guess Nisio has something he wants to say with Rat's "violence is good, actually" theory, so I guess that's what I'll be looking forward to. It is a bit strange to position him as the central voice of the show and have him still basically concur with Monkey that he's too ignorant to understand the value of her pacifism - he's being proven right by the simple fact that he's alive.

I believe the answer to all those questions is spoiler[they're killing and profiling all the Zodiac members in reverse order, so the gimmick comes before all else in the writing.]

Seriously, people called this in episode two and the pattern has held true through six episodes, this is the most predictable battle royale ever. I have no idea why NisiOisin thought it was a good idea.