Imagine you're running hurdles. Like a graceful gazelle, you're clearing hurdle after hurdle after hurdle, and then you catastrophically misjudge a jump, try to twist yourself around to save yourself from face-planting the ground, only to fall backwards and knock over all the other hurdles you've just passed like a set of dominoes.
A slightly oblique metaphor, but this is kind of what happened with Erased. Here was an anime that was so good for about 75% of its episodes, and then the ending happened. Normally, I don't really care if an anime goes a little off the rails towards the end, but there were
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