English Dub Review: Infinite Dendrogram “The Dueling Cities”

Overview (Spoilers Below)

With all their major quests finished, Ray and Nemesis meet up with Marie, Rook, and Babylon to have breakfast together. It’s here when Marie gives them an invite to a fighting tournament that will be held in the village of Gideon. Later, Shu tells Ray and Nemesis that he is friends with Figaro, who will compete in the tournament.

Ray goes to see Hugo in order to split up the reward for the previous quest and Hugo advises Ray to go west. As the tournament begins, Franklin calls the general of Dryfe’s militia and tells him of his plan to use the tournament to Dryfe’s advantage.

Shu gives Ray a telepathy cuff, which can be used to communicate two people across long distances as a magical walkie talkie or sorts. Shu also warns Figaro that he will face tough opponents in the tournament, but the episode ends when Figaro expresses his determination to win.

Our Take

The proceedings this episode built up to was alright, and different characters are for once get an equal amount of screentime even though it still felt rushed in places. It’s like it came on suddenly we were looking at an assassination attempt, then the fight at the arena and suddenly it ended.

Overall this was a passable episode and I really enjoyed the characters this time around. Upon research, this episode was almost delayed due to “Coronavirus” concerns, but I’m glad the staff is doing ok and safe from the paranoia of that shit that seems to cancel anything and everything awesome.