It was good. It managed to take a simple premise: a werewolf game loop and made 21 episodes while keeping it entertaining through to the end. The animation quality is more than fine and the seiyuu cast is gorgeous. I do recommend it.

Links to the order pages (that says 商品ページ) are under each scene in the collaboration cafe site, they run from 99,000 yen to 176,000 yen.

For a show based on deduction, it did not end up with airtight logic that closes all the holes in the plot in my casual opinion. I mostly dislike the multiple universes being separate thing that the show pulled in the last minute without explaining why there was no Setsu / Yuri / Manan in the universe they went to, or why the universe didn’t end otherwise due to duplicate persons existing.

They also left some things unexplored like the relationship between Gnos and Gnosia.

Perhaps if someone rewatch it enough times they would be able to come up with some theory that is logically consistent and explains everything, but it will probably not be proof-able with only information contained in the anime.

That said, I enjoyed the ride a lot and as I said earlier, I am glad they didn’t forget Kukrushka’s plot line and even made it relevant to the solution. The show did not meet my highest hope to become a masterpiece of time loop Sci-Fi but it did not screw up the ending badly and disappoint either. I applaud the crew of the show for being able to make an entertaining series out of a game mechanic.

I still have questions that went unanswered though e.g. why did Manan/Kukrushka went on rampage that one time, but not in any other loops?

I interpret it as Manan’s personality breaking due to a flawed transfer (which she mentioned was a risk) that only happens in some loops (similar to Yuri being female in some loops), but I’m not sure if it is right as she was behaving fine in this episode after the transfer. Perhaps she was just herself, but decide to have fun for one of her loops as she has many, many loops to play with.

Enemy has explosives, we have catapults 😑

Ballista fired horizontally – somehow payload exploded way higher than the wyvern.

They knew the soldiers were approaching, but let them walk right to the entrance and damage (slightly) the gate.

Poor prince thought he was attacking a remote village but was greeted by the king of the nation he was invading. Also gave up all information when threatened with pain.

Father banish-and-forget really did lost all interest in his son and did not check on him.

Yuriko with a new costume! I forgot, did she run away from the cult or was she just happened to be visiting Liu-An? Did the cult welcome Yuri because he was made by the Gnos or they just cyberize everyone who volunteers?

Jonas: Hey, I didn’t get my fight with the Hoshibune!

Raqio came up with a solution. I’m not sure what cyberization accomplishes, Yuri still wakes up in a physical body and Real-Yuri was nowhere to be seen in the loops.

But I noticed Real-Yuri didn’t show up until Yuriko told Yuri he was a bug. So I guess perhaps being cyberized once opens up the possibility of Cyber-Yuri, who can coexist with Real-Yuri if he/she shows up?

That “village” is in a location that has too many dragons.

Chicken-feeted, feathered dragon?

Added wayback machine link.

Actually, it’s weird that the duplicate identity thing is even an issue.

Right, they have also not shown us it was ever a problem for Setsu. The universe Setsu went to also has two Setsu and two Real-Yuri, assuming they exist there before Setsu went.

It would be genius if Yuri solves the mystery of Kukrushka’s rampage and utilize it into solving the problem of reuniting with Setsu, one can only hope.

Yuri is the visual novel player that have found all the bad ends and the good end but is trying to play once again because they believe they can reach the True End.

Something bugs me: previously each loop were different timelines, so when last episode Setsu went through the portal, I thought they were just going to a different loop / timeline.

Timelines (loops) themselves are separate enough that real-Yuri gotten erased by gnosia in one loop is enough to have bug-Yuri exist in it stably, without real-Yuri existing in other loops affecting the current loop.

But they seemed to make a distinction here that Setsu went to a different universe which supposedly is totally disconnected to the one we are currently in, and impossible for Setsu to return to and pass on the silver key to past-Yuri.

Or am I reading this totally wrong?

Also: Giant floppy discs!

Let’s show it how terrifying humanity can be.

So “humankind” (the Japanese word used was 人類) include elves as well?

I guess Earth language has not evolved to the point of having one collective word for human and elves (and other non-demon folks)?

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Dazzling halo.

IMO they should give another reason for not selling those crystals, for example not wanting something so dangerous to mages out in the market. It doesn’t make sense when they were short on cash and not make use of the solution lying right on the ground.

Light borrows a superhero mask that will definitely hide his identity, provided Nemumu does not forget to call him by his very non-obvious alias Dark-sama.

We found out what happened to his family and village. Did they imply they found his parent’s bodies? Well, having that happen is how somebody ends up vowing revenge to the whole world.

Gold’s armor is so shiny even an SSR Conceal card cannot contain its glitter.

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