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| Things are getting crazy and now there's an assassin with multiple personalities who might be Axel's friend? Unless he was also Skinner the whole time... 1 more week for the big reveal! Also Eleina becoming besties with Popcorn Wizard was cute, aside from them causing trouble as international hackers. |
| It’s a good episode. I really felt a connection to all the characters. But I’m not sure how they’ll manage to wrap everything up next episode. There’s still a lot of stuff that needs to be explained, plus our final action sendoff with Soryu and INSCOM. And presumably some sort of epilogue? Can’t see how they’ll manage to fit all of that into a single episode. Episode Highlights: DJ Visionary coming back and giving Leland the heebie-jeebies. Chris pulling a Dodgeball. And they actually went for the homeless Skinner twist. I audibly laughed when I heard the confirmation. |
| Oh dear God no. Please don't let it be that Skinner was down the street the entire time. |
| Yea no one is ever convincing me this shit isn’t amazing. Lazarus hate is so forced. “Close to the edge” is a nice double entendre for this week’s episode title as we are quite literally one week from the finale(one day in the show), as well as the in-universe near death situations for Axel, Doug and Eleina. Glad all 3 survived. Amazing character driven episode that sets up our finale very well. I still would have liked 2-3 more episodes, but if this goes the way I’m thinking, this actually is probably the perfect pacing for ending this satisfactorily. The final conflict in this was always going to be philosophical and not physical, so you don’t need a ton of time for a fancy fight. Popcorn and Eleina becoming besties is actually so cute. Even during their hacking battle earlier in the season, they felt more like friends trying to compete against one another rather than actual adversaries so naturally when they link up they’d become good friends. Lin’s story about Skinner buying the island to help the people relocate and start new lives squares with what I’ve been telling y’all for ages, he’s not a bad guy and is in the right tbh. All the death and carnage in this series has been the US government. Speaking of which, even with one day to go until millions of people die, Schneider and his little covert outfit are still more worried about eliminating Axel and stopping Lazarus from exposing their illegal experiments rather than saving people. Even to the end, humans are slaves to their own greed. I really wanna get the phantom killer’s backstory tho, he was obviously indoctrinated into some cult, how’s Axel related to that cult, were they both in it or was Axel related to the head?? Idk why, but that one shot of the African American history museum in DC being in this episode means so much to me lol. Given Watanabe’s history of promoting minority representation, I doubt that wasn’t intentional. MY CHRISTINE AXEL SHIP IS ALIVE LETS GOOO. Y’all don’t know what this means to me 😭sparks were there from the start and only got stronger when they saved Chris from the Russians and now this. Fucking perfect. She tried getting axel to make the first move by dropping the “unfinished business” line and his slow ass just couldn’t pick up on it so she makes the move lol. Skinner being in the homeless village the whole time, literally under Lazarus and the government’s noses is great lol. You literally see him in one of the frames from that episode too where Doug’s sitting down. I told y’all from the start, he likely laid that trail because he wanted whoever finds him to have seen everything he’s seen and then come to him and have an earnest conversation with him likely on if humanity is worth saving. I think next week will have plenty of time for that and the Lazarus team’s happy ending because this group of social rejects are literally the answer to the question. Humanity is flawed and stumbles, but we also have a capacity for great things. Yes, it’s worth saving. Mod Edit: removed controversial statement |
SushiRoeAug 31, 9:31 AM
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| Why are people giving bad reviews on this anime? |
RustyCookies said: @Marinate1016 Actually I'm having to force myself to watch this anime every episode and just dying to drop. Found one^ cringe af just drop it yet here you are week after week. |
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KamikazeDerfel said: Why are people giving bad reviews on this anime? NPCs who are upset the show doesn’t just answer every question in one episode. Then if it did, they’d complain about worldbuilding. Ang, another one, replied proving my point. |
Marinate1016Jun 22, 12:29 AM
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| Wow, Who could imagine that the homeless man in the first episodes who looked like skinner was actually skinner, WOW WHAT A PLOT TWIST NOBODY SAW THAT COMING LMAOOOOOOO even the "Plot twist" from this anime is ridiculous.... |
| Sport Club Corinthians Paulist is the biggest football team in the world. 51 is cachaça |
| I enjoyed this episode almost the end of this adventure |
| The best Anime/Manga account on IG ( https://www.instagram.com/otakuweek?igsh=em5kY3Q4NTVtNXlh ) Discord for the best manga/ Anime recom / Discussions / reviews etc: https://discord.gg/vbZrk64uH7 |
| This show is slowly becoming my most favorite unintentional comedy, which in itself is an achievement. |
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| Only redeeming part of this dull intelligence insulting trash is the music. I can't sufficiently express how much I hate this show and how much I hate myself for not bailing out on it around episode 3 or 4, lol. Atrocious. Skinner has the entire world to take refuge in and hide, and he chooses the very same city (or close enough, can't bothered to re-watch for the correct info) where the Lazarus team is headquartered. So fucking stupid, lol. |
Turns out this guy actually was skinner |
| This episode was full of things being hidden in plain sight. From HQ's assassin contact to Skinner's current location. Popcorn Wizard and Eleina bonding over their past exploits was nice. Doug would have been toast without them working together. All the plotlines are converging and it's a mad dash to save the world. I think Lazarus can save everyone. |
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| This show very mixed feelings for me, 1 more episode but I feel like it shouldn't have been 13 episode in the first place, more like 2 cours would've been good, rushing through backstories and introducing characters so quickly that you forget about them like the dj guy. I like the show and its fight scenes but if it was a bit longer, it would've gone way up in score. In the end skinner was the guy at the homeless place |
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| It would be very funny if the cat actually ended up being a spy, or at least played a crucial role in the finale. |
KamikazeDerfel said: Why are people giving bad reviews on this anime? Well, many reasons. Most of the early episodes feel like filler. You could remove them and it wouldn’t change much. It’s always the same old ending of “no progress made”. Got repetitive after a while. That reason, I understand, and it’s my biggest problem with Lazarus. I also feel like it should’ve gotten more episodes (either 2 cours or just 24 episodes) so we have more time to flesh everything out/polish. A lot of people were expecting this to be like Cowboy Bebop too, I understand where they’re coming from but Lazarus is its own thing. It should be treated as its own thing. Not like Cowboy Bebop at all. Though the stupidest reason is Lazarus being “propaganda” and having a “hidden agenda”. It’s all because of one moment with bad dialogue execution. |
| If I had to choose between One Piece and a girlfriend...I think I'll go with One Piece |
| I’m excited for the finale, now that we know where Skinner is. But I’m still annoyed, I wish we got more episodes. I’m worried the finale will be rushed. |
| If I had to choose between One Piece and a girlfriend...I think I'll go with One Piece |
| Almost everyone is on death's door including the madame president due to taking Hapna. Skinner's research on Hapna was based on the DNA of a group of people on an island in the Maldives that were immune to pain before those islands sank into the ocean. Looks like Skinner was hiding in plain sight and under everyone's noses in the homeless camp like most people have predicted, but can they get to him in time before the world ends from taking Hapna with only one day left? |
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| One more week and the cards will be laid bare on the table! |
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| Only one day left... and Skinner was right next to them this whole time ahah. Good Chris and Axel moment though lol |
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Turns out this guy actually was skinner
| @_KING_OF_HELL_ oh shit you're probably right |
| NO WAY THE BLIND GUY FROM EPISODE 3 IS ACTUALLY SKINNER. I really thought this anime wouldn't be able of doing such, but they really gave us this little detail. I personally didn't notice it in episode 3, only after the discussions, but I never thought he was actually Skinner, because that would be kinda of hilarious. This anime could have ended by episode 3, crazy. I don't even remember why they went there in the first place. They were searching for a Skinner colleague, wasn't it? Either way, it seems will be seeing Gil again next episode, I actually found her character interesting, so I'm glad she's making a return. So, this episode was much more intense than the other ones. The highlights are Eleina and Popcorn Wizard's friendship, the discovery of Skinner's location (so close to them) and Axel and Chris' kiss. LIKE, OK, WE'RE MOVING FAST. But we all knew they had the chemistry, so it isn't surprising, considering that could be the last time they see each other. So much going in this episode and I loved it. I just wonder what happened in the first 6 episodes for them to just do that with the story. At least it seems they are bringing back some of the characters introduced during those episodes, like Popcorn Wizard from episode 5, the DJ from episode 4 and Gil from episode 3. I wonder from who Axel got that message? It would make more sense for it to be Chris sending it, since she's the one that knows about the Angels thing. At the same time, the text was bit more like "You're going to die" so I doubt it, it's probably from Soryu. It seems like Soryu was also from an experiment, probably something like I mentioned last episode, so I guess we're getting more info next episode. It's a shame we didn't get to know more about the trial Axel took in, because the Doctor ended up being killed, since Axel was in a coma for like 3/4 days? At least he's doing better. So, talking about next episode, I'm a bit worried. Taking into consideration we still have all of this, I'm not sure how they are going to do: - Finding Skinner in the homeless grouping, with the help of Gil - Knowing why Skinner did what he did - Getting the cure, which probably Skinner doesn't have in hand - Axel and Soryu's final showdown - Soryu's Backstory - The conclusion of said confrotation - The aftermath after getting the cure for Hapna (like Eleina seeing her mother, Leland spending time with his sister, Axel and Chris dating, ...) It's kinda crazy to fit all of that in a single episode, and there's still stuff left out (like Doug's backstory, since he said this episode he hasn't been in a hospital for a long while, but we never knew any of that, so it seems too random just to be left there). So I'm worried they are just going rush everything... Also, I'm just putting it out, but since they brought back the detail from Skinner being in episode 3, I think the whole "Flower" thing from that episode is also going to be related to the cure, as many of us also theorized back then (I'm talking about the flower Skinner gave to his grandmother before disappearing, and they gave a lot of attention to that). So yeah, only 1 more week to go, crazy how fast time goes. I'm really curious to see how this anime will turn out, these last 3 episodes have been really good. AND WE GOT THE AXEL AND CHRIS KISS. I wonder if we're getting an exclusive OST for the finale. |
| A very, very calm episode! They're playing with fire now! This final episode will either ruin the entire anime or wrap it up strongly and make it one of the best anime of the year! What are your predictions? Also—do you remember my comment from the previous episode? Here’s a new image to add to it. https://myanimelist.net/forum/?goto=post&topicid=2218800&id=72874062  |
| That kiss from Chris to Axel was the highlight of this episode for me apart from all that was happening lol That was smooth 💯😘😘 We should have known that the HQ guy was Soryu 'cause of their resemblance but at the same time it was not so obvious. Never thought that he would have DID. They are still revealing a lot of things and I wonder how they're gonna wrap up things in the final episode. |
| I wanted Lynn to stay! She's incredible. |
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| Hahahaha, so Skinner was always next door? Disappointing. Is Popcorn Wizard hinting Skinner isn't the type of guy who's going to end the world? Would be funny if he indeed trolled everyone and his message was fake; but they did show us test-subject monkey dying... Maybe humans can't be affected? 1 episode remaining. Overall this show was disappointing as it tried too many things and tried super hard to be special or a classic of sorts. I can't imagine people talking about this in coming years. It'll be forgotten really quickly. Hope they don't F up the ending! I'll have low expectations. |
| this show is not good but can't lie i'm tuning into every episode day-of 🤷♂️ not sure how one episode is gonna wrap up whatever this show was but weee |
| 🌈 i just want gintama back |
| I can't believe that the theory about Skinner being with the homeless was actually true. lol |
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