Bloody Monday Season 2 - EP9 Finale

BM2 simply proves the concept of that in BM1 again - started off really big with the "wow" factor fully pumped. But the ending can really get ALOT better than this...

First let's complete the part about Spider's (Kurano Lisa) relationship with Takagi Fujimaru. They were childhood friends since the dads know each other (Kurano's dad is Professor Shikimura - the one who initially tried to get Bloody X into Japan in BM1. She inherited her mother's surname instead). On top of that she was the one who led Fujimaru into the world of computers/hacking. So in essence she's not only Hornet's teacher - but also Falson's teacher.

And yet the emphasis up to now in which Falcon never won over Spider - was very easily broken in this last EP. No explanation whatsoever given. Fujimaru just won coz he was able to hack into the device. Full stop.

......Right.

And few points which never got explained, such as the relationship between Maya and Ladybird. What happened to Minami in the end? Why is Hotaru (one of the members of "Magical Shooters") following J and K in the end, and looked so faithful to them? Mizusawa Hibiki somehow managed to survive in the end...with a direct shot. Is that just to fulfill Fujimaru's request to live to the end?

Too many things unexplained, or looks to me the whole plot itself is full of bugs - that's why the scenario writer can't even bother to try to explain. Oh and please don't try to explain any of the above by having BM3, coz that'll just extend to the list, not shrinking it.

To me BM2 could've been done alot better if:
1. Haruka and Yagi's part are removed. (Yagi didn't even die in the end. WTF? This kid took up so many frames holding his gun around virtually doing nothing, yet the Director hasn't properly executed him?)

2. The top national meeting can be halved - or even removed - alot of decisions can be just passed to the audience verbally. Again lots of frames are wasted here - with these guys simply sitting around panicking and got nothing done. (except showing sign of relief when Falcon has saved the world again...yeah thanks! Why don't you let him the president instead? XD)

3. Maya could've lived. She's been centre of attention (and suspicion) since BM1 and always added to the plot as well as to overall rating, action-style-wise or plot-wise.

4. Fujimaru should be portrayed as about equivalent to Spider rather than giving the audience the feel that he's always losing. That way the final win would be WAY much more logical than what we've been given now.

Really, there are heaps of things that they could've done much better rather than just getting the audience to keep playing the "guessing who's the bad guys" game. That's already been used over and over in BM1, over repeating it is never a good thing. And people just get so sick of it too, even the BM fans - who has given up BM (TV series) ever since BM1 as far as I'm concerned.

So in the end it was revealed the whole plot was directed by J, who managed to rescue K (so what's her purpose in BM2? Just waiting to be rescued?) and is now on large with Hotaru. The end. See you later J & K, hopefully we won't see you again in BM3, if it does come out.