English Dub Review: Devils’ Line “Ego Defense”

Tight your security bells ladies and gentlemen, because breaks are off on this one.

Overview (Spoilers Below)

So, this week we find ourselves with and Anzai-centered episode. He has a showdown of sorts with his douchebag teacher trying to present devils to the world as a bad thing while Anzai demonstrates that he had gained some measure of control over his devil without going batshit crazy. He fails, and Ishimaru have to come to save the day, just to later provoke Anzai to transform… in the name of SCIENCE?

Snipper-chan and Hacker-kun help the squad to track down all the CCC members that they know of, but the organization seems way too big, or too mysterious, to catch ’em all! At his end, Anzai has started to remember more of his past was, surprise!, Kikuhara having been messing with him for a long time.

And behind door number two is Jason! Who is also… me, Dio! I mean, Ishimaru, but everyone saw this one coming, right?

Our take

Rapist-sensei needs to be killed with fire, though it was funny how the public reacted to his anti-devil movement. A shame that this was not used properly for the betterment of the narrative, though it seems that it was too much to hope for.

Tsukasa is nuts or is a hidden closet masochist, because her admission of liking her scar is, perturbing, to say the least. Not that there is something wrong with the SM community, but the way she said it, like it as perfectly innocent and normal taste of candy, was off-putting, or was it just me?

Kikuhara and Anzai connection was kind of foreshadowed when it was revealed that Kikuhara has some sort of beef with Anzai’s father. That said, we still don’t get Kikuhara’s reasons behind his actions. Is it just pure craziness? And speaking of the latter, thanks to him appointing Ishimaru as the new chief for the F Squad, we already knew that the guy was up to no good. He as the elusive Jason was the natural next step, I felt.

Overall, the episode had little to no room to brief, more questions and popping up and the answers have become unsatisfactory. Tsukasa may not be totally fine in the head, like more than we suspected already, and Ishimaru is some kind of a herald for the dark side.

One thing that got me laughing was the scene where Ishimaru is on top of Anzai and Lee is watching them with a look that says “where I left the popcorn?!” The awkwardness of the situations just tripled when everybody walked on them.