OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)Kazuma Kokuryu, the President of Dragon Bank, proposes a deal to buy out Trillion Game.OUR TAKECan you believe we only have five episodes left of this show? This shit has taken for goddamn ever to get through and my mind has gone back and forth on whether I like it close to at least a dozen times, but we’re finally, FINALLY in the home stretch. Not that I expect the story will necessarily conclude, seeing as the manga that it’s based on is still ongoing, but we’re bound to hit SOME sort of milestone soon, likely to do with Dragon Bank. Especially considering that Pop Up Land, the mobile game they made using a poached developer FROM Dragon Bank, has already got the company more than a bit flustered, especially since it beat Dragon Bank’s sloppy thrown together mobile game in the charts. Now they have upgraded themselves from nuisance to threat, but Dragon Bank, and more specifically Kazuma Kokuryu, has to make a show of being magnanimous and give them a way to go out on top by making them rich and giving them an offer to take their company out from under them in exchange for untold riches. And that deal probably would have worked on most people…but not on the most selfish man, Haru.All throughout this series, we’ve seen Haru think five steps ahead of everyone. Whatever might seem like the next logical choice, he steps past that and makes something that foresees the next dozen moves, even when it seems stupid, irrational, or even just plain crazy. It was a bit annoying at first, seeing the smug guy always turn out to be right and having the viewpoint character, Gaku, mostly giving color commentary, but now we have seen Haru’s plans come to fruition in many ways, as well as face some setbacks along that path. He’s not an all knowing god and he has plenty still to learn, but if there’s anything that can be defined about him in a single word, it’s ambition. So of course he’s not going to be satisfied with a single buy out, especially when it’s clear this deal is a move to make him just go away. He has skin in this game now, as well as a grudge against Dragon Bank for taking their flower shop chatbot idea (not an idea I would personally be that proud of, but what do I know). Anyway, final five episodes, the door’s open, let’s go.
