As is always the case, Fumetsu no Anata e has a certain elasticity to it. It does hit rock bottom, but it never just goes “splat”. It bounces back – sometimes (though not this time) to a shocking height. It’s simultaneously frustrating and encouraging, because even if it takes a few episodes you know if you stick around, patience will be rewarded. Would it be easier if it just jumped the shark so I could dump it? Yeah, no question. But I would miss the good moments it delivers on the rebound.
A lot of the good moments this season have involved Yuki. He presents the alternative view of the Nokkers more eloquently than anyone else. And he’s consistently entertaining (no small thanks to Han Megumi). He’s kind of an idiot, but he’s actually pretty smart – he just has no practical common sense. Or self-preservation, really. Even when Fushi tries to get the Boy in Black to remove the Nokker he swallowed, Yuki refuses. “Co-existence” is his mantra and he’s going to the mat with it, even if it costs him his life.
The first practical problem in the aftermath of the ridiculous school escapade is that the cops have concluded it was Tonari and the others who were responsible for the damage (that’s some prank). And Satoru has erased the footage from the security cameras for obvious reasons. Yuki helpfully provides a script for a fictionalized account of what happened, built around the idea of a crazed Fushi stalker fangirl trashing the school (which sort of isn’t all that far off, actually). When that goes over like a lead balloon he tries the truth, which predictably hits even worse. In the end it falls to Bon to pull strings and prevent everybody from getting sent to juvie.
Fushi isn’t totally dismissive of Yuki’s ideology – in fact, he probably admires it a little – but when push comes to shove he sees it as a pipe dream. In the end it’s going to get dumped on him just like it always does. Satoru then drops a real bomb on him. He wants Fushi to “attain” him – that is, to inherit all his powers and become an omnipotent God. Satoru has been gaming him as long as he’s been Satoru in fact – the Creator never lost any of his powers, he just wanted Fushi and the others to have to fight the fight and Fushi to become attached. He gives Fushi three years to come to terms with it (I’m not sure refusal is really an option), which is enough to send Fushi into dreamland for a couple of days.
When he wakes (which is when a worried Gugu arrives back in town), Fushi puts it to the Fushigumi to help him decide. I’m with Tonari (definitely less obnoxious in modern schoolgirl mode) here – if you can do anything, that means you’ll have to do everything. What, Fushi doesn’t already have enough on his plate? That bastard MIB knows how to push Fushi’s buttons (obviously) – dangling the notion that Fushi would finally have full control of the Nokkers any time they enter flesh mode. Can Fushi, the etneral good boy, possibly refuse powers that can theoretically help so many people? I’m skeptical.
