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With so much time assigned to Toma in the previous episode with his protective nature towards our Heroine, and the way she ended up literally in a cage for awhile, Amnesia just took a surreal turn where you’re wondering just where it’s all going to go. With this episode, things open up with some decent flashback material for our Heroine as she remembers what Toma was like when they were little, how he protected her and the way she had a certain kind of love for him that even got her to follow him into the same university. Now with the two of them together in the same room and him reading her diary where she lays out clear that she loves him in some form, he can’t help but to be surprised since he thought it was going to be all about Ikki. He’d blinded himself in so many ways towards her that all of this is pretty revelatory for him.
Amnesia does follow through on the attack on her previously a bit more as Ikki brings the trio along with their manager to the hospital where they all go through the apologies for what happened, seemingly able to smooth things over. It’s not a surprise that it would do that considering what our Heroine is like and her overly forgiving and milquetoast nature. But it was welcome to see the four of them come into the place while Toma was there to try and make things clear for her and bring closure to the event. While it does play out well, the whole thing invariably leads to her being tossed off of the hospital later that night, which resets things. And unfortunately, it doesn’t actually end things as the show has certainly become tiresome by this point. What this reset does is bring her back into contact with the man who threw her at the end of the previous arc.
Even Orion realizes that he’s dangerous, but there’s something obviously different about him in this reset than before as he tries to warn her away from the university. Ukyo continues these kinds of warnings as he’s seemingly one step behind her throughout her daily routine an saves her from numerous instances where she’d be hurt of even killed, such as when part of a building falls down near her. This has both her and Orion on edge as they’re not sure what to make of him after what happened before, but we start to see the past that exists between the two a bit as it slowly comes out, and we get a bit more about his own life as a photographer. His nature of being around her constantly, watching over her and saving her, is both disturbing and reassuring at the same time considering what she gets into and we eve see a bit of that just towards the end in a really ramped up bit of fake drama involving a shoe and a train that, well, couldn’t it be solved by her getting her foot out of the shoe?
In Summary:
Amnesia shifts into its final arc here as it the series angles into the last few episodes of its run and that means finishing out the Toma arc and bringing Ukyo into play. Ukyo at least seems like it’ll be a bit more proactive in a way with what it will do since he gets right up into her business, does his best to save her a few times and makes it clear he’s aware of her situation. Something that sets off numerous alarms for Orion to be sure and keeps our Heroine pretty off balance as well. There’s a lot going on here between the two sides of the story that we get, with closure in the previous and then the start of the new one, but we’re still largely back to square one until things truly get figured out and real closure is provided.
Grade: C
Streamed By: Crunchyroll
Review Equipment:
Sony KDS-R70XBR2 70″ LCoS 1080P HDTV, Dell 10.1 Netbook via HDMI set to 1080p, Onkyo TX-SR605 Receiver and Panasonic SB-TP20S Multi-Channel Speaker System With 100-Watt Subwoofer.
Gosh this episode was so full of suspense I am so excited for episode 11 !!! I can’t wait!