A five minute resolution stretched into a twenty minute episode… What They Say:
Episode 8: I Don’t Believe in Fate
The Review:
Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers)
The Hirasaka-gumi has been had. Renji carefully planned all of his assaults so that the group would have to spread themselves out to cover all venues they are using to promote the band which leaves Yondaime all alone when Renji visits with his newly found gang. Now with Yondaime in the hospital and clinging to life Narumi will have to take charge of the gang to keep all that Yondaime had built from being destroyed.
With events coming to a peak Narumi will have to walk through the minefield that Renji has laid and prepare a suitable counterattack- but controlling a bunch of hotheaded men may be more than he can handle while also trying to figure out a way to bring the truth to Renji and give him a chance to repent. Will events play out the way he hopes or will he need help from-Alice who might have to break the cardinal rule she holds for detectives to do it.
The four episode arc that details the fight between old friends and a new one finally comes to an end, and it is debatable if anyone is the winner. With such a strong start Heaven’s Memo Pad looked to be setting up an interesting premise with some distinctively odd characters-much of which it threw away with the current arc which sent many of those characters to the sideline and promoted some characters the audience has not had sufficient reason to care for. Throw in a mystery whose answer was telegraphed in the last episode this one just feels like a paper extended out because of a word limit rather than because this was a vital piece of the story. Also of note the subtitles on The Anime Network were rather bellow their usual quality as well as a number of mistakes where present in the subtitles.
In Summary:
The eighth episode largely feels like padding as the solution to the mystery was spelled out in the previous episode and now we just watch for the inevitable conclusion. If it were happening to characters that had been developed more it might have worked but given where it falls in the series it falls flat and actually drags the series as a whole down a notch.
Grade: C-
Simulcast By: The Anime Network
Review Equipment:
Toshiba 15.4” Notebook
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