English Dub Review: Doreiku the Animation “Intersection”

Twice, is that you?!

Overview (Spoilers below)

We start this week episode learning that Setagaya doesn’t need to play ball to enslave other SCM users, and this is how he got a hold of our Dat-Lab-Coat Fujiko.

New actors keep popping up in this chapter, and Gekko Itabashi gets into the action, with the most ‘Chuuni’ personality I have seen in a while, taking over the stage which is the school that Fujiko and Julia tried to infiltrate.

On the other hand, remember when Zero, way back at the beginning of the series, kind of resisted the SCM control briefly when nobody else couldn’t but everybody seems to have forgotten about it? Well, it seems that he has another personality named Kiyo that, seems to be his mother? (How that’s supposed to work?), and, confusedly enough, who has her own SCM? (again, how that’s supposed to work?),  and have been making her own slaves?!

Madness notwithstanding, Zero, as Kiyo, gets out of Ryuuo’s thumb and scapes with Gekko and Maria, the online hooker that gave Gekko his SCM, and it seems that the trio/quartet have been working together for a while.

Oh, yeah, it seems that Maria and Kiyo knew each other from way back but, somehow, Zero totally forgot about it.

Our take

Where to start with this? Despite having so many storylines that need closure, “Intersection” introduces even more characters and more storylines that seems to be connected to everything else, which may not be a problem on itself if not for a small fact: we only have THREE episodes left!

Setagaya is way too OP, please nerf, and the Maria-Gekko duo seems to know way too much without explaining how they got hold of so much information.

Zero’s split personality was something that I was not expecting, but I think that it popped up out of nowhere. Plot twists like that are not bad when properly used, but this time it was not handled well. The author/director should have been giving us hints, small ones, from time to time so, when the grand reveal comes up, we could be properly surprised without feeling cheated for the lack of evidence.

On paper, this episode had some really cool ideas, but I feel that they were wasted in how they were used. And we didn’t see Eia on this one so I guess that it is a plus. On the other hand, we didn’t get our dose of Best Girl Sachi either, so that is a downer.

I think Chou worded nicely how I feel by the end of watching this: “Nothing surprises me anymore.”

Score
7/10