The whole thing about it being two seconds out of phase when it merged with Hizuru is one of those “just don’t ask” sci-fi conceits I think, but at least it explains his/her predictive ability. Haine, meanwhile, clears up the mystery of the siblings’ dual identity – in effect, she vomited up Ryuunosuke’s data after eating him when her human personality rejected the notion that she’d eaten her only friend’s brother. “Shide” is apparently an armour of dead shadows that Karikiri wears, but I’m still not entirely sure just how he has duplicates of himself running about. But soon Shide is joining the fray and it’s all Ryuunosuke (who takes command of the body) can do to stay alive. Because of Ryuunosuke she immediately knows who Shinpei really is, and tries to lure her into Nezu’s line of fire. As a hedge she leaves the others – including Nezu with his sniper rifle – behind when she goes to Terajima. Hizuru is of course too suspicious to have taken the Shinpei on the phone at face value, but she’s unaware of the copy floating about and as far as she knows, it shouldn’t be usable anyway. Perhaps even to split up and have her go after one set of allies while he chases the other, though Shiinpei’s combat ability is so low without her that it might be unwise to split up. But S-Mio seems to have stayed loyal, and she gives him options he wouldn’t have had otherwise. Because Mio worried she’d flip back with Ushio gone (and because she likely wanted to all along) Mio nails her shadow to the floor of Shinpei’s room when she goes off to meet “Shinpei”. There’s only one hole card left for Team Shinpei at this point, and that’s Shadow Mio. She has Shide call Shinpei from his own phone and offer him a stark choice – which group do you want to try and save? Haine uses his phone to lure his allies to two different spots – Hizuru, Nezu, Tokiko, and Tetsu (“why are you here, again?”) to the small tidal island of Terajima, and Mio and Sou to Alan’s garden. Is she still in there, somehow? Survival is a plus, certainly, but things are still looking grim for Shinpei here. Why didn’t Haine finish off Shinpei and the children when she seemingly had them dead to rights in the woods? It seems to have had something to do with the shell in Shinpei’s hand – Ushio’s shell.
Make that three oversights actually, because Haine also has a working copy of Shinpei’s phone – which will prove to be a major factor in her next attack. Haine has been spying on him all along ( through a crow), and she can transform into him through the body she copied way back in the third loop. What’s more he’s made two huge oversights. Shinpei is still very much paying the price for his overreach in the last loop, and the advantage has decisively shifted back to Team Haine. OLM has actually outsourced a good chunk of Summertime Render but without an overwhelmingly negative impact.Īs for the episode itself, it was another of those barnburners that used up most of my notepad and seemed to last about ten minutes. That has nostalgia going for it if nothing else, and on the whole I thought this episode – which had a good chunk of action – looked rather good. The links between this former sub-studio and the disgraced studio of legend are tenuous, but original Gainax founder Yasuhiro Takeda is the managing director there, so this ep is probably as close to an “official” Gainax anime as we’re going to get these days. An interesting tidbit about this episode of Summertime Render – it was outsourced to Gainax Kyoto.
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