English Dub Review: Undead Unluck “Cry for the Moon”

OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)

Juiz explains to the remaining Roundtable members that the world they live in has actually been part of an ongoing time loop that restarts every time Ragnarok occurs, and that Fuuko’s Unluck ability is actually the ability to summon fragments of past Earths. Juiz has actually made Roundtable teams in other timelines, but only Victor had made it through them due to his own ability, which then became Andy’s, but it also means that Andy is truly unable to die, even from the end of the world. The only way Juiz has survived this long and remembered everything is because of a device called Ark, which Billy mentioned on his way out, and the point of the Roundtable is to kill God to end the time loop once and for all. So, with the sun rising on a new day, the Union formulates their plans to take on the four quests, though Juiz sends Andy and Fuuko on a separate mission: find a book that shows the past AND future.

OUR TAKE

The third quarter of the season closes out with the Union taking a second to breathe and pick up the pieces from the massive betrayal they suffered the last couple episodes, as well as get some crazy revelations about what the heck they’ve been fighting for this whole time. Yeah, I did not see “repeating time loop” coming, but maybe I did in a previous timeline before the world got reset. Jokes aside, it would explain some small weird things we’ve seen over the series so far. The visions of destroyed buildings that Fuuko received when Rip gave her that gun now are revealed to be from old Earths, which I guess makes more sense than being predictions of buildings getting destroyed in the future. Somehow the artifacts are retaining memories of old timelines and that effects…Negators? Okay, not all of this is very well explained yet. I’m still wrapping my head around what exactly the artifacts and UMAs even ARE, but for the moment they seem easy enough to comprehend as just “object with special abilities” and “giant monsters with powers”, which I guess is all they really need to be for the moment. But who knows, maybe there’s an overcomplicated and edgy explanation coming later.

With that, along with the reveal about Fuuko’s Unluck (which makes calling it Unluck feel actually kinda inaccurate now), we also have the proper reveal of Juiz and Victor’s relationship, as well as that Andy can truly never die. Considering his big goal in all of this is getting Fuuko so into him that her ability kills him, that’s gotta be a bummer to find out that day will never come. Most people fear getting news that they ARE going to die, but Andy just found out the exact opposite. That’s actually a pretty good place for the two of them to bounce off of, as the remaining six episodes will have the two alone together on their new mission. Since their relationship only started because Andy thought she could kill him one day, they now have this opportunity to reassess what exactly their relationship is now that they not only can’t accomplish that, but what exactly they mean to each other now. They haven’t really had the chance to think about things in those terms since the whole time they’ve known each other has just been going from one fight to the next, on top of learning all this stuff about the end of the world fast approaching. Guess we’ll see where that goes in the final quarter.