Episode 12 – 「Knockin’ on heaven’s door」
As with the most recent episodes, this episode further cements that the sheer amount of material left to cover just screams “there AREN’T enough episodes to cover everything, so there needs to be MOAR!”
But at this point, I’m more like “who cares about common sense anymore lol” when it comes to this show. The great part about this episode was all the intriguing and absurd ideas in this episode.
This show’s take on love, and how it is the root cause to the whole shadow dilemma, is both absurd yet interesting to me. The whole idea, although seemingly random, could actually happen and is somewhat believable, and it’s these type of unexpected twists that are keeping me entertained. The whole “anti love” angel program system, along with Yurippe’s resolve to end this conflict (and strongly hinted at disappearance, although that came to be false), helped give her some much needed character development.
Yurippe’s brief encounter with insanity felt totally out of place, though. The crazy pacing this episode, along with the disappearances of a majority of the remaining SSS members, the random shadow fights, Kanade’s fighting against the shadows, and the completely random antagonist, served to add to the extremely chaotic feeling to this entire episode.
From an objective point of view, this episode would be by all means considered horrible. Despite that, I liked the turn of events this episode, and am looking forward to the finale to this odd, somewhat contentious little series.
Overall Enjoyment: 4/5
Distant Paradise 