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EP. REVIEW: The Detective Is Already Dead

No, Char clearly said "Mom!"; "Ma'am" is more of a "ma'am" sound.

And I still think that's Siesta's eye; Yui being caught in a lie once doesn't prevent her from lying again.

I was happy to see more Siesta this week, but that just makes me realize: I would have much preferred a second season of In/Spectre. It covers much the same territory, but with more cohesion and better plotting.

This flashback arc is staking so long and focusing so much on Siesta that I've almost completely forgotten about Nagisa and the present-day plot, and at this rate they won't have much time to really develop the present-day cast and their story.

And they still have to develop Char and have her actually do something instead of being impersonated.

I'm ashamed it took Hel chucking Siesta's heart into her own chest for me to realize that she is Nagisa. The anime wasn't very subtle about it (although temporarily the part of "partnering up with Kimihiko" seemed to be about Alice).

Chameleon, in his giant monster-chameleon form because of course

[Siesta] somehow predicted and planned around the fact that she would get killed by a kaiju and have her heart carved out by Hel to be implanted in herself

Hel's body is in fact the person we now know as Nagisa, with Siesta's personality incubating in there to suppress her evil side and save Alicia's true persona until she could awaken herself. How many people you got in there!

But from a purely mechanical standpoint, internal to the show, it does technically work and make everything from Nagisa's mysterious heart memories to Siesta's superpowered cyber blood make sense, or as much sense as anything else in this utterly bonkers narrative.

More importantly, there's no possible gap in memories that would explain Kimihiko's actions for the year following Siesta's death. (I do like the call-back to the Hanako story, though, floral kaiju-pimples notwithstanding.) He apparently did not know that Siesta had taken over Hel's body. So why did he accept that Nagisa was the recipient of Siesta's heart as a medical transplant? If he remembered Hel taking the heart, he would have stopped at nothing to get it back or at least put Hel down for revenge. If he remembered only Siesta being killed by the kaiju, he still wouldn't have any context for her becoming a heart donor. If he lost all memories of the battle with the kaiju, he simply wouldn't believe that Siesta was dead and would stop at nothing until he found her.

Chief among these is Nagisa herself, of course, who's chronic-illness backstory that effectively fueled so much of her character before is revealed as a fabrication, with many of the issues we were otherwise just addressing up in smoke now that we know who and what she really is. Her worries about not 'being special' or finding something she could do to make up for the part of her life she lost isn't applicable in the face of this multi-personality identity crisis her and the three other people sharing her body are now wrapped up in.