English Dub Review: Lycoris Recoil “Diamond cut diamond”

Overview

The Lycoris of DA stormed the Enkuboku to stop Majima. Just before the operation, Takina rushes to Café LycoReco when Kusunoki informs her that they cannot get in contact with Chisato. However, after receiving threats from Robota, Chisato and Mika set out to rescue Yoshimatsu, who is being held, hostage…


Our Take

It’s now time for Majima’s plan to be put in motion and this one is a damning indictment towards exposing the Lycoris in broad daylight, but there’s some truth in Majima’s words as well of a world shadowed by lies and false belief. At the same time, Japanese society is officially fucked now, but I guess we’ll see what the writers do with that. At the same time this is going on Kurumi (AKA “Walnut”) their hacker friend figured out a possible solution to save Chisato, but nobody knows for sure whether she we live or die by the end of this anime.

With D.A. infiltrating Enkuboku and trying to get a trace of Majima, together with Yoshimatsu being kidnapped by the mass murderer entrapped in the old radio tower, this sure seems a probability of a double trap. Even Takina is left with the dilemma of choosing to stay with D.A. or save Chisato, and it doesn’t take a genius to know what her decision will be…

Overall, this episode seems to have the road path to the final climax. Bodies dropping and blood being spilled. The public has never felt less safe than ever now. The one jarring part was the scene with the guy in the street. saying to himself “Hey, here’s one of those people who are supposedly armed and extremely dangerous. Do you know what I should do? Let’s pull out this gun I randomly found and have no training in the use of, and try shooting at her!” That made no sense at all. As for the cliffhanger ending, knowing the next episode will be a fair fight, we now have two episodes left to determine who will win this possible outcome and whether or not Yoshimatsu knows more than he’s telling everyone. Since he’s been such a sneaky bastard regarding his own ulterior motives.