I think the only way to play nice with Inuyashiki at this stage is to embrace the silliness unreservedly.  Anything else is asking for disappointment, so it’s pretty much that or bail – and it’d be a shame to bail this close to the end.  This is not a show that wants you to think too much about what’s going on – indeed, that could only lead to trouble.  So just surf the wave of plummeting airliners and don’t worry too much about whether any of this makes sense.

That’s easier to accomplish given that the violence in Inuyashiki has become so cartoonish that (for me at least) it’s lost all emotional impact.  When Hiro went on his first rampage and killed that family, it was profoundly disturbing to the point where it bordered on exploitative.  When Inuyashiki-san mutilated those Yakuza, it was unsettling to see a peaceful and compassionate man using superpowers to maim and torture normal humans (no matter how deserving they might have seemed).  But since then it’s pretty much been video game stuff, and seriously – who but a few religious fanatics gets worked up over that?

I’m oh so very tempted to delve into why Hiro conducting a symphony of plane crashes – and Inuyashiki landing about 20 safely – was so absurd, but I’m going to take my advice and slide right past that.  Instead let’s talk about the first real conversation between Hiro and Inuyashiki, which was probably the last little spark of this series in “Kiseijuu Jr.” mode.  Yeah, the whole discourse over what makes each of them feel human was as subtle as a sledgehammer, and it would have been nice to dig more deeply into how these two men are alike rather than obsess over how different they are – especially since it seemed for a while as if that was exactly what was going to happen.  But that’s just not the sort of series Inuyashiki is, as it turns out, and that’s been obvious for a while.

Do I buy tears of remorse from Hiro at this stage?  Not really, though I suppose he’s just young and stupid enough to make his behavior almost believable.  The fight between he and Inuyashiki-san was pretty well-staged (if almost totally CGI), as was the scene where Inuyashiki rescued Mari from the burning Shinjuku Government Building, then went around Tokyo healing the wounded.  There have to be repercussions from that (even his name seems to be out there now), but the more immediate repercussions for the finale will be dealing with the state of Hiro.  Inuyashiki has ripped off his arms and the back of his head, but Hiro survives and is stumbled upon by a couple of women with a juice box (who don’t seem to recognize his face, oddly enough).  It’ll be interesting to see where things end up with him – and did that meteor get taken care of, by the way?  Sam?