English Dub Review: Gnosia “The Final Problem; Truth”

OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)

Yuri learns to use their gained ingenuity to bluff the remaining Gnosia into revealing themselves and survives the current loop, but finds themselves in a timeline where the Gnosia never got on the ship, leading to literally universe shattering revelation.

OUR TAKE

The first of a few double reviews as we sprint to catch up before the finale! Yep, turns out this series is going have a bit of an odd final episode count at twenty one, as opposed to the usual twelve to thirteen or twenty four to twenty six. And as much as these catch up reviews are not ideal, I kind of picked a good place to start because it looks like we’re in the endgame now. The first episode we’re looking at, with its blatant lie of a title, gives us what will probably be our last regular run through of identifying the Gnosia. The introduction of the AC Followers as humans who want to help their potential human overlords threw a bit of a wrench into things, but Yuri manages to use the details they know to through together a convincing case and out the final two Gnosia. With another victory in the books, now it’s time to loop back to waking up in that same old medical pod to do this all fucking over again for the rest of multiple eternities, right? I mean god, even if this was a good ending, there wouldn’t be much sign of things being close to over at this point.

Well, as it turns out, Yuri finds themselves waking up in a whole new part of the ship, as well as quickly finding out that there are not Gnosia aboard. At first this feels like a brief respite from everything to just enjoy some downtime, and even Setsu is relieved to have a bit of a break, but then the question arises of what the Silver Key would find important enough to find and make the loop happen again. Is it finally over? Can Yuri just live out this life in peace? Well, potentially yes! It just won’t be THIS Yuri, as Yuri finds another of them in the pod, which then rapidly causes the universe to fall to pieces. Yuriko reemerges and reveals that the Yuri we’ve been following is nothing more than an agent of Gnos, the hivemind of the Gnosia and also the product of numerous cyberized human brains, so that’s a bit of a surprise. This Yuri, a bug in the system, can only exist peacefully in timelines where the original, real Yuri was killed by the Gnosia prior to boarding the ship, and if they enter one with a living Yuri, where there would be no Gnosia, the universe collapses. What will be the next step forward for the Yuri we’ve been following? We’ll have to see in the remaining five episodes, as we determine if this Yuri is truly doomed.