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One thing I really like about Akane's backstory here is that up until this point in the story I had assumed that she got deep into psychology in order to better understand her characters to help her acting. However, what we really find out is that she studied up so much in order to better understand her idol, Kana, lashing out at her in what became an extremely formative moment for the young Akane. The fact that it helps her with her acting (and Aqua-sleuthing) is merely a coincidental side benefit.
Her years of experience and psychoanalysis have led to this moment with Kana. It is like Akane has come out of her acting hyperbolic time chamber ready to fight the big boss...only to find out that they gave up already. I can understand how immensely underwhelming and disappointing that would be. @rikka@ani.social
There were so many great visuals this episode. Practically all of the Akane/Kana showdown is told either via flashback or visual metaphor. We don't really see what the audience sees here, we see things like the moment that led these two toward this path:
Or, we hear their inner monologue as their out-of-character personas act out their feelings:
This show has been a visual feast from start to finish, and I cannot wait to see what this play's final act is going to look like.
I probably don't need to say this, but from Kana's point of view, she hasn't given up a rivalry with Akane, but she's playing a supporting role to let Akane's performance as a lead character shine.
Now whether this kind of performance actually works in the context of the Tokyo Blade story and this theater adaptation, we don't really know...
But every good drama needs a great villain or rival, and if Kana's not providing that kind of performance then that's a problem for the play.
On the other hand, Kana might pull a Kizame and pour it on in Act 3, but wouldn't it be better if their characters had a believable rivalry that was started earlier on?
But I'm guessing that the main villain/rival is supposed to be the Blade character (red hair, red outfit guy), not Kana/Tsurugi, so she doesn't want to outshine both Blade and Princess Saya.
Yet, on another (third) hand, a good hero has to overcome significant obstacles and if Tsurugi isn't proving much of a challenge for Saya, then what was the point of the character?
One of the really interesting pieces of this arc in the show is that we are actually seeing quite a bit more of the Tokyo Blade play than we did in the manga. Up until these past couple episodes, I hadn't realized just how extremely generic of a battle shounen Tokyo Blade is. This is basically just a rehash of a sequence of battles that we have seen tons of places before (saving Sasuke in Naruto, confronting Shishio in Rurouni Kenshin, etc.). So, the way the actual play has unfolded is, to a large degree, anime original. Abiko-sensei should really step up the originality in her next work...