The man’s unsettling neo-nationalist motives make for some splendid commentary on the current political climate in Japan - remember the parliament member from two episodes ago, and his explicit association with current actual prime minister, the right-wing nationalist Shinzo Abe - and its crippling obsession with achievement and effectivity. Too bad, the man in question spent the biggest and best part of the episode confronting Mamiya, the politician responsible for funding the Athena project. In fact, they all but diverted attention from said argument, so here’s hoping Five’s rather confusing exit from the show will put Shibazaki back at the forefront. Her actions failed to augment the ethical law-versus-chaos conflict at the heart of the show with an interesting third perspective. Sadly, the only one benefiting nothing from this defeatist party is Five herself, who departs from the show the exact same person she was when she was introduced. I’ll fully admit that I don’t actually even mind that, because her complete and utter defeat of Sphinx admittedly made for some great character development of not only the duo, but Lisa and Shibazaki as well. Throughout the series, Five has mostly just been there, mostly as an excuse to get our protagonists into trouble. Yet she could show up in any other context, in any other show, and nothing about her character would change - because her motivations, what drives her to do the things she does, have very little to do with Sphinx’s terrorist attacks, their beef with the police, or even the Athena project.
We never really get to know anything about Five, aside from Mamiya’s revelations making it obvious she’s the intended result of Project Athena: part of a hyper-competent, merciless elite. Why couldn’t we ever see her compete with Nine back at the settlement, let alone get a glimpse at how far her fixation on beating him ever went? Truth is, Nine is little more than a yandere, and not a very good one either. Things quickly go haywire when Five regains consciousness and goes on a rampage to try and get back her favourite toy, leading to a second half that, while action-packed, fell a bit flat in the writing department.įive has never been the show’s strongest character, a rather comically villainous vixen with infinite resources and seemingly no semblance of motivation for doing the things she does aside from her poorly-explained obsession with Nine. They’re savvy enough to know that no criminal would ever turn himself in without a ploy, but they can’t exactly let him walk either. The first half is the quiet calm before the storm, in which Shibazaki confronts the man responsible for all this madness, Twelve deals with the consequences of his actions, and the police struggle to figure a way out of Nine’s obvious trap. The penultimate episode of Terror in Resonance is one that, solidly split in half, perfectly accentuates the duality of the show. Meanwhile, Shibazaki confronts the brain behind the Athena project.
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Nine turns himself in to the police, but Twelve doesn’t know how to face him after what he did to save Lisa.
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