#11.12.18

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Man, Release the Spyce episode 10 was something.

Like the first ten minutes were slice of life yuri-bait with the mentor-apprentice pairs, and I’m cool with that. I kinda hoped from the start that this show would have something of a playful, light-hearted tone balanced with crazy fun spy stuff, but the show’s largely been pretty dark so far, so this slice of life was appreciated, even if the execution was kinda boring and generic.

But apparently this show doesn’t want to satisfy me fully, because it dials the edge up to 11 by having Mei be secretly a traitor the entire time, which kind of annoys me. It wasn’t really an earned twist in that the only suggestion that there ever was a traitor is the characters talking about a traitor since the early episodes, but “show don’t tell” exists for a reason and all the traitor talk is just that - talk. And there’s also no reason to expect Mei to be the traitor so it kinda just feels like they were throwing darts at a dart board to decide who it was, and the show’s character writing is shoddy at best so the reveal that Mei is the traitor ultimately has no impact behind it because I don’t care enough about anyone for this revelation to be upsetting.

I used “dials the edge up to 11″ a bit early - a traitor reveal isn’t that big a deal. What really hits that edge is that a building’s blown up and Momo’s reaction suggests that that building had someone important to her in it but maybe not either way she’s sad because someone died and then fuckin Mei straight up kills Hatsume and Yuki is killed by a robot with a katana in the same way her own mentor was killed. I called that she’d die last episode and @thatonegayanime left a nice “Honey, you don’t know how right you are” in response after the episode actually aired (hi I’m 3 days late) and even though they spoiled it for me I don’t even feel spoiled because I don’t care about this show’s characters or its predictable plot twists.

Irregardless, to kill off 2 of your main characters and have another one be revealed as a traitor while the remaining ones are drugged and taken to the enemy HQ where they might be killed is definitely a tad overboard and I really wish this show balanced moments like this with the slice of life stuff a bit better or maybe even went for a more cheerful tone, something like Mitsuboshi Colors but with cool, over the top spy stuff. I’m not against shows with silly or bizarre premises and cute girls going for more serious tones, but if the final product is so meh I’d rather they just kept it light-hearted.

So not a great episode overall.