There are still so many unknowns when it comes to character motivations that I'm not sure how to analyze a lot of them.

It's getting hard to follow again.

Doc seems to have badly underestimated how pissed off her family is at her.

Huh. Is Ichise actually about to have consensual sex? That's a new one.

This one kinda sucked.

Content warning for incest and (at least strongly implied) child sexual abuse.

Looks like the son of a bitch is actually down.

Please stop raping Ichise.

Let's see how Lukuss survives this. Or, if it doesn't, at least how Ichise and Ran survive this.

One of the more chilling surprise villain reveals that I can readily recall.

It really felt like there were some scenes missing in this episode. Moreso than even in the pilot. At this point I'm not sure at all of what's supposed to have happened, entirely.

I'm not really sure what to make of this one. It was...something, alright. There were thematic threads running through it, but I'm not sure what they actually were. I might be better able to understand in retrospect. I hope.

The pain, horror, and hopelessness of life under a kleptocracy.

Fucking hell this guy gets raped a lot.

And dismembered a lot.

And orphaned a lot.

Honestly, the weakest part of this show for me is how hard it leans on its aesthetics and style. I don't *dislike* the vibe it goes for, but the show spends way too much time setting the vibe with long silent shots, scenery montages, etc without doing much else, and I find the story more engaging than the scenery.​

His city turned into a hostile desert wasteland around him, leaving him to parch and die and leave his bones on its sandy bedrock.

Losing two limbs in a world where prosthetics are this goddamned hard to talk or write about.

The minimalist approach to storytelling makes it a little hard for me to get into the characters, since I don't understand much about what they're doing. It also feels like it's struggling to fill its 22 minute runtime without biting the bullet and having people talk. On the other hand, I do like the urban exploration sort of aesthetic, and while I only understand a few bits and pieces of the story it seems like it at least *could* be interesting.