I was actually expecting an episode mostly focussing on Lisa so I was kind of surprised that she didn’t exactly do much in this one. I can safely say that at this point, this show definitely isn’t getting stale. For the first time, Sphinx may have to concede that they’ve bitten off more than they can chew… Lisa, no. And she’s not exactly a new face to them, either. Some new people have arrived at the police headquaters to assist with the case, and one in particular is far craftier than Sphinx could ever have anticipated. However, this time their plan does not go smoothly. Once again, despite the risk in putting the bomb in a place guaranteed to have people, Sphix doesn’t want to harm anyone, and Arata particularly wanted to make sure that Mikoshiba solved this riddle in time to stop it. The two terrorists try to ignore her as best as they can while they launch their next attack – a real bomb again this time, inside one of the fire extinguishers on a subway train. She tries her best to be useful to them, but ends up causing more harm than good. I hope not, because this show comes close to feeling uncomfortably like Death Note enough as it is.Īfter Lisa collapses feverishly at Toji and Arata’s doorstep, they end up letting her stay – although Harata wants her gone as soon as she recovers. So which one is the otaku that made this, Arata or Toji? Dang the insert song here was pretty nice.Įpisode 5 I wonder if Toji’s sitting style is meant to be a reference to L in Death Note. I’m still not sure what is drawing Toji to Lisa so much – after all it was him that interfered with her being bullied in the first episode, too…but I can’t imagine Harata is going to have much luck not involving her in their schemes now. The scene when Toji takes her by bike back to their hideout was a great piece of animated emotion…as well as being the first time we’ve seen her smile. The unexpectedness of the nature of the latest bomb gets points for me, but Lisa was what I liked the most about this episode. Thus one really has to wonder whether Sphinx’s obvious dislike of the police extends to him. Where, exactly, does Shibazaki stand? He’s already making himself seem separate to the police – in fact they’re getting increasingly uneasy about his willingness to play along with Sphinx. Now, the previous bombs were acts of terrorism clearly meant to invoke fear and cause some kind of statement (while not actually harming anyone), but this time it’s a clear ‘up yours’ to the police. Due to their cheating, the bomb explodes despite Shibazaki solving the riddle – and here’s the twist, it’s not the kind of bomb that anyone expected, in fact its a digital bomb, and when it goes off it releases all the confidential police reports to the public that Toji and Arata had managed to hack into before. This time, even though Shibazaki was able to solve the ‘riddle’ leading him through a secret website link to a moe girl asking him to stop the bomb, the rest of the police team chastise him for ‘playing’ with Sphinx and do what Sphinx explicitly told them not to in their latest video – cheat, by finally managing to determine their hideout (or at least, what they thought was their hideout) and breaking in. I was dreading the show getting a bit repetitive with its ‘solve the riddle, shibazaki!’ gimmick, so I can safely say that the pay-off in this episode was entirely unexpected and rather expertly done. The prospect of this show quickly getting stale was one of the things that worried me about it, and to be honest I was feeling a bit of that worry when Sphinx announced yet another bomb. The more I see these videos the more I wonder why they don’t even try to disguise their voices. A game of chess? Not exactly subtle, Watanabe. After successfuly hacking the police network the two launch their next riddle and bomb…and this one has a twist. Toji starts to wonder if it would be better to take her in if they aren’t going to deal with her in some other manner – after all, she is the only person who knows their identity – but Arata is adamant about not getting anyone else involved. Meanwhile Lisa is still on the run, hanging out in fast food joints and in alleys and anywhere else that isn’t her home. Being the one that was able to connect Sphinx to the missing plutonium, Shibazaki decides to visit the plant in Aomori to get more information.
The deeper Shibazaki digs, the more he discovers how well Sphinx have covered their tracks – everything from using fake credit cards to buy their bombs to picking said bombs up from convenience stores and not having them delivered to their homes…in other words, besides the connection with the missing plutonium and the witness sketch of the mystery worker there, the police have zero leads.
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