OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)Picking up from the events of Episode 0, Makoto shows Kadode’s dad Nobuo how to go back in time and avert the terrible fate humanity arrived at in this timeline.OUR TAKEUh. Well. Okay, I guess Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction is over now? It seems that Episode 0 we got way at the beginning of this was NOT a new original story but actually a later part of the manga that was adapted a lot earlier for some reason. Taken chronologically, it seems that Kadode’s dad Nobuo just…takes over as protagonist for the final parts of the manga out of the blue and then finishes the story by resetting the timeline…or by creating a new one? It’s not exactly clear. I mean I certainly expected he would be a PART of the solution with how Episode 0 introduced him but not that he would just turn out to be the only one who solves everything. Don’t get me wrong, it was pretty neat going back and rewatching Episode 0 again right before this and having so many things and characters have much more significance to me now, and releasing it the way they apparently did in the manga would’ve been kinda weird but…actually this is already weird, in both a good and bad way. Kadode and Ouran already had their involvement in the climax of the story get mostly taken over by Keita, but now it’s also being taken by Kadode’s suddenly alive father? They get NOTHING to do?And then there’s the fact that it’s kind of unclear what exactly Nobuo even does, since he also disappears before the end to see this new timeline. I had to look this up since it was kind of vague but apparently his contribution is to tell a young Kadode to make friends with Ouran first as opposed having Ouran initiate things herself, which seems to have led to both bad timelines (Kadode dying and humanity being decimated, respectively), but it doesn’t really tell us how THAT change specifically manages to avoid both bad futures…or ANY bad futures it seems. Not only that, but when Nobuo enters this new timeline, there’s a different character in place of Isobeyan, which might indicate that the changes made here aren’t going to do anything for the destroyed Earth timeline. So, are we operating on Back to the Future rules (all changes impact the timeline) or Dragon Ball Z rules (all changes just create a new timeline)? I…honestly couldn’t tell you and I’m still coming to terms with this show as a whole. I guess now I have time to go back and rewatch it all for the Season Review, where I’ll give my final verdict.