English Dub Review: Dimension W “The Lost Genesis”

Overview.

With Dimension W coming to an end by Episode 12, it’s also that time where previously unexplained plot points come into fruition. Questions that have yet to be explained become known, and characters that have meaning to the story appear for the final showdown. We see all of this happen when questions about Lwai’s bodies are answered, along with the explanation of how the bodies function and their drawbacks. The episode is centered around a flashback to tie up loose ends. The episode also provides some action before the final showdown that will take place in the finale. This is demonstrated when the majority of the cast gather together to enter the transporter room by destroying multiple robots that were guarding the room. The moment everyone comes together is where loose ends tie up along with thrilling events.

Tapping into Dimension W apparently works like Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’s probability drive. The possibility of something is creating the energy, which explains why so much weird can go horribly wrong. They also explain all of this with the whole Schrodinger’s Cat hypothetical.

By the way, I recently saw the film Beowulf so I’m just wondering why Kyoma is known as the “Beast of Grendel”. Isn’t Grendel the beast in the people’s eyes? If not, then does that mean that it’s not Grendel who’s the beast but some internal force that drives him to perform these horrible acts?

One of my biggest gripes in this episode is that there’s no explanation to how Kyoma lost his memories, along with that, there are enough missing links around for the finale to fill in. Actually, I am anticipating the final episode to wrap up any and all questions that can be answered at this point. I know the story at the time of this review continues in the ongoing manga, but given what we have so far, there is enough content to provide for an exciting finale. I just hope Dimension W can keep that level of consistency for next week.

What is life? Dimension W is starting to dig into some questions that are simply too deep for twenty minutes of anime, but they’ll be damned if they don’t try to explain probability in that time. All of the gang converges at the center to track down Genesis, and we learn what it is and what it might be capable of. Everyone wants it for different reasons, but Loser just wants to find his wife and the man who took her. The key to finding Genesis lies with Kyoma, but with just a single episode left it remains to be seen how this whole thing is going to wrap.