A Certain Dark Item

Frenda's wish being her usual unhinged self got a real laugh out of me. She keeps christmas stuff on a tanabata tree and nobody questions it. ridiculous character and I mean that with affection

You sit through the interrogation and the violence and then the bamboo tree shows up and suddenly everyone is just people writing wishes. The contrast is brutal. Kamachi really loves making you like the doomed ones first

my favorite was the tanabata wishes bit. the quiet ones always land hardest. half of them wrote something ordinary and you just sit there knowing none of it is going to happen

the mercenary lady setting up the silver needles in the air and letting them hang there a second before they drop was such a cruel little touch. whoever storyboarded the ambush knew exactly what they were doing

Do not get attached to Hanano do not get attached to Hanano do not get attached to Hanano. That is what I keep telling myself and she is making it very hard

Okay Hanano being a Level 0 with all these spy gadgets sticking her neck out for a crew that barely wants her around is genuinely stressing me out. Every time she smiles I remember what kind of show this is and I get nervous

That look on Hanano's face when the metal rain started falling said everything before she even opened her mouth. Poor thing trained her whole life for locks and handprints and then the sky turns into knives

the highway pile-up was worth the slow first half but man this show really does love to talk before it fights. ten episodes for one book worries me a little

I did not expect Kouzaku to show up in this of all shows. The second the silver droplets turned into those little figures I sat up straight. She is way scarier here than she ever was in Railgun and that is saying something

Mugino yelling about her frozen account while the whole squad sits there like they've heard this song a hundred times is such a team portrait in one shot

Every time Frenda opens her mouth about Mugino I wince a little because you know exactly where this ends for her. Rough thing to sit through in a show this fun

Frenda hanging christmas ornaments on the tanabata tree broke me a little. Of course she did. Of course the wish was something unhinged too. That girl has no idea how much time she has left and it is killing me

Kinuhata eating popcorn into the mic while Hanano is sweating in a locked server room is the funniest thing this season and nobody can tell me otherwise

Mugino explaining that she breaks atoms down mid fight is such a silly way to beat someone and yet they make it work. the whole metal metal composition trick got a laugh out of me. smart writing though

Mitori showing up again was fun and the liquid metal dolls looked sharp. But her getting folded that fast kind of undersold her. Feels odd after how much trouble she gave railgun

I could not stop smiling at the apartment scene. Mugino fussing over where everyone sleeps like a tired mom doing a headcount. Knowing what she does later makes this whole episode feel like a knife being slowly pushed in

Hearing the sixth ranked Level 5 name dropped like he's some urban legend got me more excited than the actual fight. Whether he shows up or not I am now fully invested in that mystery

Kinuhata sulking in the theater because her movie got ruined by work is the most relatable thing anyone has done in the entire Toaru franchise

The disguise prep scene is genuinely unsettling in a good way. Watching her study a fifty year old man's posture shifts like she is learning a language nobody else speaks. It makes her feel less like a person and more like a tool someone filed into the right shape

Mugino blasting a hole in the building because the password changed is such a blunt solution and yet it fits her exactly. She solves problems the way a wrecking ball solves traffic