English Dub Review: Trillion Game “Game Changer”

OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)

Haru makes a last gambit to keep Trillion News’ integrity.

OUR TAKE

True to the episode’s title, Trillion Game changes the game again…by ending it, as this is the last episode of the season, and possibly series. And aside from a bit at the end paying off the tease of where Haru has been in the distant future framing device (apparently getting intel on how to seize or improve on the biggest companies), this isn’t really much of a finale for the show, or the season for that matter. It’s really just giving resolution to this three episode arc involving Trillion News, and once again shows how Haru’s talent for thinking on his feet gets the company out of another potential jam. While Akari is forced to not talk about the Mithril exploding phone story on the broadcast, Haru manages to get the company in a bluff, saying that there are people eavesdropping who may leak that said company is trying to cover up a big problem with their phones, forcing them agree to running the story, but making them like they’re coming forward with it on their own so they can save face. And with that, as well as a major storm coverage, Trillion News makes a name for itself among broadcast viewers, impressing Kirika and her father once again. And that wraps up the first and maybe only season of Trillion Game!

The episode does its best to build up everything that’s come before and send things off with a sense that this is only the beginning, with this win being the breakthrough that will finally set into motion the things needed for Trillion Game to sprint towards the goal of being ubiquitous throughout the world. But while I can somewhat buy into a news network and growing trust in it being crucial in building a brand, it doesn’t do much to distract from how disjointed a lot of this season has felt and how much its focus has jumped around. They’ve dug into interesting businesses and their mechanics, to be sure, but this, as an ending, doesn’t feel like the culmination of that, just the latest in a long series of mostly unrelated stuff they’ve done. But now I’m getting into the stuff with the season as a whole, which I should really be saving for the Season Review next week. Basically all I really have to say about this episode in particular is an okay ending by any metric but not really anything exceptional. And that’s that I guess.