Recap: The final touches are put on the Super GunBuild-1. At the same time Kai, Nae, and Airi almost get mowed down by Geji, but villain stalling of Bondian proportions saves them in time for Geji to betray Kou. Once reunited, our team has once last heart to heart before going to battle against his murderbot.

The plot holes just seem to pile on for me. If Kou is such a powerful AI, can’t he do more to disrupt our teams progress? Even in our current time so many machines are controlled by computers that have wireless hookups. You’re telling me he couldn’t use his magic AI powers to get into some of these cars or tools they are using and sabotage it? I guess I will chalk it up to this concept they’re throwing at us that the Kou AI is incomplete, thus unable to encompass the entirety of human idiosyncrasies. It just so happens that one of those is good planning, I guess.

I’m still pretty confused as to how this EM hallucination machine is supposed to work. I get that we’re supposed to buy that it can somehow just fuck with someone’s mind enough that they believe they’re seeing things, but how is it supposed to mess with someone’s brain so that they can move faster than normally possible? I just don’t get how that makes any sense. Oh well, Kai’s weird little heart-attack power had to come back into usefulness somehow, and this is the only way that made any kind of sense.

Once again this anime suffers horribly from a scene dragging on too long. A tense showdown between Kou and a controlled Geji would be tense, but then he spends like two minutes talking to them like the most cliched villain ever before he has Geji (why he needed Geji to control the gun bots in the first place is beyond me) shoot them, only to have her side with Kai. It doesn’t help all this cheesiness was followed by an even cheesier scene, where Geji being deleted is treated like any show with AI, like deleting is just like killing them instead of removing them so she has to stutter and blip in and out dramatically. It really was just a lackluster scene in every sense.

I also have major problems with the new GUNBUILD1. If we were going for efficiency here, why is the stupid thing still walking on a pair of legs? Put some treads on the thing for God’s sake! What possible purpose could you have for putting legs on the stupid thing except just to make it look cool? At least i kinda get putting the cool pile driver things on it, since we’ve proved the thing can die from getting crushed simply by a large amount of aluminum, I’m pretty sure anything could break its hide.

Despite my reservations regarding our main character Kai, I will admit the romance scene was a long time coming. I was expecting something when they were both stuck in the same hotel room, but I guess they wanted the maximum impact. Too bad that just makes the whole thing really overwrought and awkward. In Steins;Gate, when Makise and Okabe acted really awkward around each other as they confessed it was realistic: they only knew each other for a little under a month before confessing. Here, these two have known each other since childhood, I feel there’s really no reason for Aki to be so weird about it. It also just got me riled up, as she made Kai sound like this awesome dude despite his asshole behavior when really I never bought that. I am so glad they had Frau come in at the end there, as it saved the entire scene from being absolutely awful.

Soon, my disappointment will end. Either by R;N having an enjoyable ending or simply by not having to watch the show anymore. The ridiculousness of our protagonist’s plan really has my eyes rolling, but I’ll stick with it to the bitter finish.