One of those "We often choose our favorite characters because we blahblahblah" videos, but the characters shown start exponentially increasing in war crimes.
My ultimate Deltarune tgeory(100% canon, do not steal):
Bob from Tem Village is the Egg Man.
obv, we know that Tem has egg, and the Egg man also has egg, thus the temmies are involved with the egg man.
But, think about it...who gave Temmie the egg in Undertale? We know the Egg Man speaks in fluent English, so it can't be any of the normal temmies we see on Tem Village, but the Egg Man that gave Temmie the egg has to be nearby...
AND BOB SPEAKS FLUENT ENGLISH. ITS GENIUS. TOBY HAS BEEN PLAYING US FROM THE START!!!!1!!!1!!!
Whatever OCs I have (ig Gizmondo and the Dess Nightmare, no matter how much the latter is just a what-if scenario for Deltarune), whom I have no references for aside from a tomodachi life LTD mii for Gizmondo, ig its free rein, stuff's public domain* as far as I'm concerned, I just made Gizmondo as the funniest idea for an Uma possible-
*I am saying this in the context of the OC, Gizmondo is still a trademarked name owned by Stefan Erikkson. Who, fun fact, crashed one of the rarest cars of all time. Don't try to sell Gizmondo merch. I'm not dealing with the bad Nintendo DS competitor mafia-
Worst crossover I can think of that somehow has a genuine connecting thread:
Ib, the RPG Maker horror game, and Bubsy, from Bubsy 4D, and also the hellish nightmare scape known as Bubsy 3D.
Anyways, what even is the connection between these two?
There is a Bubsy fangame called "Bubsy 3D: Bubsy Visits the James Turrell Retrospective", which is a psychological/surreal horror game about Bubsy visiting the James Turrell retrospective and going to hell.
It somehow has the same "horror stemming from a living art gallery" premise as Ib, and that leads to the dumbest possible crossover possible.
Honestly, just got Bubsy 4D, and started thinking about that fangame.
THE AUDACITY TO GIVE FUCKING FIVE AN ARC, AND AN EXTRA FINISHER FOR ZEZTZ, AFTER KUREHA FUCKING DIED? NOT RESOLVING ANY OF THAT? WE'RE JUST LEAVING THAT HANGING? NOT HAVING BAKU BRING ODAKA BACK TO REALITY WITH THE CONSEQUENCES OF SOMNIA?
Been MIA for a couple days because I really really hated this episode from all fronts.
Blame scheduling conflicts all you want, but I doubt it would have fixed such horrendous pacing and writing for this season regarding focus on characters and side characters despite initial set-ups and the information they give. It's even worse for Kureha and Nasuka.
Spoilers below:
The thing about Kureha is that, even as a minor character, she still played a part in Baku and Nasuka's stories as well as having her own set-up to be more. She's considered to be the most empathetic Agent before Baku given her Nightmare in Cases 18 and 19 preying on her wish to protect others as well as her understanding his issues with killing Nox in 22. She is also the one who confirms the cram school is a training facility meant to turn children into future agents while also confirming she, too, was also groomed by CODE much like Baku. There is an unnamed enemy organization that figured out her identity which led to her dismissal to prevent intelligence leaks.
The problem is that all of these were erased by the time Baku woke up at the end of Case 24. All of her interactions with him that led to her choosing to return to CODE is gone. Her brief reconnection with Nasuka that led to the latter wishing to take a larger role in Black Cases is gone. She has no connection with Baku to hear him out and she is still an Agent loyal to CODE and follows orders as she was trained to do.
This episode was literally piggybacking off of the erased development of Chapter 1 to, once again, use her death to drive Baku's story like in Case 22. Nowhere in Cases 25 or 26 has ever given her any substance to lead to her hesitance in Case 35. If it was CODE forcibly returning her memories and disregard the entire point of mind wiping that could be the start, show that. Her staring at the ring in 25 isn't enough as it could be read in so many ways.
And as mentioned before, she plays a huge part in Nasuka's involvement in this half of the season. If it wasn't for Baku even uttering her name to Nasuka, Nasuka would have never went to the apartment to hear him out. Currently, because of Somnia, Nasuka has 0 memories of Baku, CODE, and Nightmares, but the real world still has evidence of their relationship as colleagues working on Black Cases.
Do you know what will happen when she gets her memories back and learns that the reason she is even joining this fight fucking died when she was amnesiac?
Yeah. Exactly. And I doubt once she has Case 22 Breakdown 2.0, it'll ever be mentioned again. Maybe if they pull a Boshimar 43/49, but I will not hesitate to splurge on a flight ticket and throw a molotov cocktail at Toei Studios if that bullshit does happen.
It really sucks that this episode tries so hard to tell us Kureha yearns to be with Nasuka again and was moved by the barbecue dream, but there's just 0 buildup prior to that. The only time we see her enjoying it is in the flashback when she died later on in the episode. If they truly wanted us to care and be moved by her death as an expendable tool who wants to regain her humanity, they should have expanded on that rather than cramming it into a single episodes 8 weeks after she was thrown into the ICU.
Like it's being told to us that this is Nasuka's Dream; someone who deeply cares for Kureha even after losing contact and wishes to see her again which was why she was able to enter said Dream. That should have stirred a reaction out of her and should have expanded on her doubts on CODE:Somnia because she had to see someone she held close prior to joining CODE be mind controlled by this new technology. Five was correct to question her loyalty and her believing she's still a human instead of CODE's tool, but it's not enough when we've had 0 buildup prior to this episode and we don't expand on it in this chapter.
And it does piss me off that since the new chapter started, not once has Nasuka ever became a topic for Kureha to think about despite the premonition showing us outright she still cares for her with and without her CODE memories.
If this chapter and death truly wanted to tell us that Nasuka is the emotional driving force for Kureha to betray CODE, they should have shown this to us with more than a 2-minute dream with 5 seconds of KureNasu interactions or flashbacks of said dream when Kureha was dying in the same episode. It just makes everything fall flat and reinforces that she is a woman who is disposable and her death is used to drive men's stories before becoming an afterthought.
It's made worse when she's the only female character that can transform in a cast where the only female character with agency is The Lady. Nem is always a damsel in distress, Minami is reduced to a cheerleader, and Nasuka is reduced to her stupid fucking window climbing, Fujimi-kicking gag character. I don't care if it's a boke/tsukkomi bit, that shit should have died when Chapter 2 started
I had low expectations after hearing about Takahashi and his treatment of female characters, but HOLY FUCK
But if you really wanna talk about casting, fine. Let's fucking talk.
I've been against Yuzuyan being casted as Six ever since the fucking rumors started which was November 2025 aka the month after she wrapped filming. Everyone has known this or should have known this because if people know me, they know I'm a huge fan of her previous role, Rita Kaniska aka PapilloOhger.
KingOhger finished airing in February 2024 but guess fucking what? She did not finish her duties representing her role as Rita until May of 2025 when she was a guest in the Super Sentai Poll Results on NHK where Rita ranked #12 out of 300 heroes.
Zeztz filming started in July 2025 for Kureha.
She only had 2 months of respite from Toei until she was dragged in to become fucking cannon fodder with shit character writing. That means Rita Kaniska is still fresh on the minds of at least 50% of Zeztz watchers.
So many watchers actually started Zeztz or came back to it after dropping it because of her. Myself included. They also dropped it when she died in Case 22 and have dropped it again after 35. Myself, included.
But one of the problems with that is that so many of these Zeztz watchers who also know her for her previous role refuses to respect Kureha as her own character and I fucking hate that. Every fucking time I log into any form of social media, all I see is people calling Kureha "Rita-sama" even if the episode has Nasuka calling her by name 20 fucking times. Even to this day, these people claiming to be fans are still calling her Rita. Not only is that disrespectful to Yuzuki, it's also disrespectful to Rita as a character because they're being misgendered again by having their name attached to a female character completely unrelated to them. It's made fucking worse when TTFC pulls this shit in the Agent Minami Substory.
References are supposed to be cheeky. An "I see what you did there" moment. A prop, a line, a pose, a sound effect. Literally anything that could be brushed off by casual watchers but have diehard fans go "I SAW/HEARD THAT".
THROWING A CHARACTER THAT THE "FANS" CAN'T RESPECT INTO THE COSTUME WITH THE SWORD, GOKKAN SIGIL, AND "PAPILLONOHGER" ANNOUNCEMENT IS NOT THAT.
That's stupid. That's desperate. It just screams Toei had 0 fucking faith in Kureha and would throw her into the fucking trenches of characters with potential but given to people who don't know what to fucking do with them.
I. Fucking. Hate. It.
All this does is prove that Yuzuki was casted to bring in viewers and wasting her talents as an actress with the excuse of "oh we need someone who can keep up with Rina in basketball for a focus episode that will be thrown into the trash a few episodes later".
So yeah. Everything is shit, but nothing—NOTHING will ever convince me that this would have been any different with an actress that had a more flexible schedule. ZEZTZ's writing has always been shaky and forced to be pushed by toy sales, but this is the last fucking straw when there is so much fucking potential for these characters thrown into the trash.
Literally writing an angst fic just to spite this episode. I have exams, but I'm going to write a fic to say "fuck this episode."
Like, give Kureha SOMETHING. Wasp Aug in Shin Kamen Rider comes to mind, but SHE gets an actual fight. Not just getting completely slapped around by a final form Rider, then not even getting to henshin to fight 3. All just to hype up the next villain that only has any kind of characterization beyond "evil" in 2 frames of the opening.
And, even without the most disrespectful death I've ever seen in media for the only character in CODE with an attempt at depth aside from Zero, AKA just Gendo Ikari but he's not even Shinji's dad, I agree with the shallow characterization of all the side characters. No one besides Baku has had anything to do, especially Nasuka. Minami and Fujimi at least had mini arcs. Nasuka literally doesn't have one, at all. Her arc died in a ditch on the side of Route 66, she's just a gag character now.
Its something I've seen in Takahashi's writing, and it sucks because I genuinely thought the pacing was perfect this time around. There was no lull in the plot like some Rider shows have, ESPECIALLY GEATS. It felt fresh, it felt like it was going at a steady pace. Its like whenever he is the lead writer, braincells are turned off when women are mentioned.
but oh my god, the more I think about it, I'm just hoping and praying the female main rider rumor for My-th is true because that would just be karmic balance at this point.
I'm not done with Zeztz, just because I still want them to release more seasons in English, but oh my god does this episode feel like such a "fuck you" for caring about a series that genuinely started off as one of the best of Reiwa. "You care about character interactions and analyzing characterization in a series only slightly skirting copyright infringement for Persona, a series ALSO ABOUT STRONG CHARACTERIZATION AND DREAMS? TOO BAD!" Fuck whoever signed off on this episode, and fuck the casting director for Zeztz.
Imagine a retake of Underplayer that actually has the player be...a regular UTDR player. Like, they end up finding out Undertale is a full multiverse of sentient beings, and they are NOT NORMAL about it.
Also so there can be moments like Player fighting, like, Error Sans, through both Undertale and Deltarune, maybe even Undertale Yellow, and then having a triple attack with the Justice soul.
Or immediately trying to introduce Underswap characters to their Tory Fox and Team Switched counterparts.
Player: Oh, shit, now that I think about it, what would happen if I did...
*Player suddenly leaves the game for a second, and, suddenly, now Chara, Clover, and Sonic The Hedgehog appear.*
Chara: MY DEAREST BUSINESS ASSOCIATE, WHAT THE FUCK?
Clover: What is this fancy-lookin' gizmo you have there?
Player: Dev terminal. Do not question it.
Sans: What in the actual hell is going on?
Player: Oh, right, you can't see the bickering couple. Anyways, here's Sonic.
Sonic: We were just in a Dark World, Kris-, wait, who are you?
Player: oh, shit, now that I think about it, I could make a Sonic Bad Time Trio like this. I don't know how that would translate, gameplay-wise, but, uh...wait, is FNAStale and that one Sonic AU under the protection of Zonic? I'm assuming so, but I don't want to piss off the actual Archie Sonic-
Sans: Player, slow down, please.
Sans: ...You used that Gamebanana thing you told me about again, didn't you?
Player: No. That PLUS Gamejolt for Red and Yellow.
Sans: ...
Player: ...
Sans: I don't have a pun for this, actually, I just have a headache.
Imagine a retake of Underplayer that actually has the player be...a regular UTDR player. Like, they end up finding out Undertale is a full multiverse of sentient beings, and they are NOT NORMAL about it.
Also so there can be moments like Player fighting, like, Error Sans, through both Undertale and Deltarune, maybe even Undertale Yellow, and then having a triple attack with the Justice soul.
Or immediately trying to introduce Underswap characters to their Tory Fox and Team Switched counterparts.
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