Date A Live V Episode 7 Discussion

Been progressing more of less as i anticipated thus far, though i didn't expect all of them to go down. This puts it in the spot of being too dire, and sort of pulled the intensity out of it.

Escaping this predicament is so improbable that only deus ex machina level resolution will conceivably resolve it, or we get one of those moral pep talk victories where Shido wins with the power of goodness etc.

I would have been more impressed if they pulled the more bold move of having Mio show up in front of Shido after he failed to stop Westcott, and Mio just erasing Westcott because he was in her way making it a total rug-pull. It's still clear that Mio is the most dangerous entity in the story up to this point, regardless of Westcott's knowledge or abilities.

Scenarios like this put their stakes higher if the protagonists are actually able to do something but fail regardless due to overwhelming advantage. For example Gungnir should have been written to injure her at least. And at least a few of them get away to truly comprehend the hopelessness of their scenario...
...plus as was made self-aware already with the ridiculous instant death lights:

...though i feel like this is taking pages out of negima (which does these way better)

Episode was great, Shido's kissing strat was kind of cringy but whatever, it worked.

Also the anime finally got me more interested as we got a new main antagonist that actaully killed some spirits and is a real deal threat, not like the notebook dude that can't seem to win at all.

After the episode, I wrote whatever was going down in my brain but I somehow saved it...

Here it is:
Aright so, that last episode, (edit: this episode) Mio literally killed everyone but Shido (or Shin whatever he goes by now) and Mana. I have absolutely no faith that the mc can pull this one through.
But since there are like 5 more episodes he probally will. I think the options he has are using his talking skills to convince Mio to undo everything, but that would be kind of lame as it is the easy way out. Another thing could be that he ends himself and brings down Mio with him, which kinda makes sense.

One theory I have is that Shido will back in time as he seems to have his powers still from the last episode and there is potential that he may have some of Kurumi's powers as Mio says Shido needs all the spirit's powers for her to come back (I dunno if the subtitles were accurate but that's what I got from them) and bc she comes back, he has GOTTA have them.

What's probably going to happen throghout the next few episodes is that we get some backstory, get that character development to change Mio's feelings, and have Shido sealing her powers with his kiss. Like this happens to almost all the spirit's shido sealed before