OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)Heartbroken by Uryu’s increasing distance from her and closeness to the Amagamis, Shirahi wishes on the god Kurogami to change reality into a version where Uryu never met the girls and dated her. However, Uryu retains his memories.OUR TAKEWow, crazy coincidence that I’m covering two different multi-part storylines about characters being forcibly taken to an alternate reality that seems okay on the surface but hides a dark secret! We’re on the final sixth of the season and beginning its final arc, but unlike pretty much the entire rest of the season, this one puts focus on a less involved character: Uryu’s childhood friend Shirahi, who’s been pretty much just lurking around every few dozen scenes doing the old jilted childhood friend love interest routine. If that seems like a reductive view of her as a character…well, unfortunately we haven’t really had very much time with her to think any differently. The focus of the story has been, appropriately, on Uryu’s growing bonds with the three sisters, but it’s not like we couldn’t have gotten more scenes with Shirahi getting to know them herself, having her own subplot that involved just Uryu to flesh out THEIR relationship, or…just SOMETHING so that she felt more like a character, even if she still ended up as a cliche! I know I’ve been like a broken record about this, but the supporting cast for each of the mains is pretty much bone dry, with each of them only having one government appointed friend, in Uryu’s case being Shirahi, so for all I know she simply blinks out of existence when he’s not around!As for the reality shifting itself, it seems that this business reveals that there are in fact other gods that can impact reality, in this case being one called Kurogami that Shirahi taps into using through her desperate prayers, and apparently they just thought “yeah, no biggie” and fucked up the timeline just for a random passerby. Plus, it would be pretty fucked up for the ghost of the Amagami mom to pull this trick, so it’s gotta be someone else. Perhaps she’s involved in keeping Uryu’s previous memories intact and he would’ve fallen under the spell if not for that intervention. That just leaves the inherent potential issue with this type of story in general, since Uryu already not playing along and utterly traumatized by his friends suddenly acting like they’ve never met is only going to make him hate and distrust Shirahi once he figures out what’s going on, no matter how many looks at her underwear he gets! But that just leaves three episodes to go, meaning I can binge the rest next week!
