Honestly, I adore the pacing of the first 2 seasons, this one especially ended up being a delightful psychological roller coaster of emotions where each character isn't so black and white.
My issue was the ending sequence after the last episode, whereas almost everything else was really a great watch.
Spoilers ahead:
Now, with the start of a potentially new timeline where our big bad is given a chance to live a better life, it felt a little.... more optimistic than I feel was necessary. We already got a great message, were able to save pretty much everyone with some hope of a certain blonde boy's recovery... but even with that, was going back for the main bad truly necessary? She was tragic, yes, but she was able to live a good life with her adopted grandpa, and I feel should be much more accountable for her actions. Afterall, it wasnt the parasite that's made her do all her meticulous planning for all these years.
I mean, the godess's powers.. we can assume after so many years that she got them back. But I mean... we don't get a 100% confirmation that the going back in time was definitely a different timeline but we can kinda imply it based on how it's worked in the past. If that's the case, then it neatly goes into the OVA (3rd season is sometimes what it's listed as). But then, does Rika just not... stay in the other timeline? Does she just decide as she's older that what she has isn't enough?
Plus, there's the fact that she always had to die before going back, and she only went back 2 weeks. So we're to either assume that she died and used the goddess to go back that far, or she was somehow able to use the goddess to go back that far without dying. It leaves a weird feeling either way since it feels strangely tacked on.
Not the worst, but it brought down my score slightly. I'm not against redeeming seemingly irredeemable characters, but this wasn't even that. I don't know, it was a single scene among so many others that I absolutely loved, but it definitely felt like Rika risked a lot there just for an even greater world for a literal bioterrorist who again, was tragic, but made her choices out of her desperation of wanting to hold onto the person who took her in.
