Again, spoilers below so if you havn't watch this episode yet and don't want to be spoiled about the storyline - skip to the next article please :)
OK guys...we are almost there! This is the second last episode of BM2, where some mysteries have been resolved but a few more has arisen.
Let's start off with the two biggest surprises of the EP:
1. J (played by Narimiya Hiroki) is well alive and kicking, and seems like the whole crap about him dying and needs to be transported is a big setup between him and leader of Madang Shashu (again I still like to call it "The Magical Shooter" XD) - "Spider".
2. Just like you pretty much can't guess K's real identity in BM1 (unless you've read the original comic), "Spider" also turned out to be a huge surprise. Who would've known Kurano (Mitsushima Hikari) is an expert hacker and an excellent "face-off". And yet the line "Fujimaru, let's play together!" sounds like she has known him for some time. I would say alot of people are thinking along the same line as me - they must have met each other when they are small.
One thing to note, I really liked the tense atmosphere when Takagi is trying to figure out whether Minami or Kurano is "Spider". The whole guessing game at last has come to the climax point where even Takagi himself wasn't quite sure who really is "Spider", until Minami got shot and Kurano had the gun pointing at him. (Wait, I think we've seen the same thing in BM1 as well, where Takagi's dad got shot and K points the gun at Takagi...you don't learn do you? XD)
Because the whole concept of "guessing game" is such a strong theme within BM itself I believe that's why this EP (or whenever audience is left with trying to figure out who is the culprit) is great to watch.
But stripping off the success of atmospheric creation, I'm not too sure whether BM2 really has too much left.
And l still want to emphasize this, the whole Third-i sector is just....crap to the degree not only their system get hacked so easily that they have to rely on two uni students to save the world? Come on, you've been paid well by the government (let's assume that, since they report direct to the prime minister XD) so you should do more than just pretending to be busy walking around / picking up endless ringing phones.
And the very Chinese-looking guy "Mosquito" - I do feel sorry for you being killed so easily, and I don't think you had much chances to act apart from showing off a few foreign languages? Btw I still don't know which language they were using...sounded like something they made up themselves? Anyway that's not important XD
Mizuzawa Hibiki (Kurokawa Tomoka) definitely has the feeling of a female agent, and at the end of this episode an angry one too. Although having seen her performance up to now, I do hope her acting skills can improve the next time we see her on screen....
Oh and don't forget about that poor K, having on average of 10~15s of screening time per EP, finally will be released from jail in the final EP. But it's already the last EP, so....what's the point? Hmm...let's find out next week!
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