At least this had a stabbing.
Impressions:
This episode would’ve worked so much better had it come before the previous one. Have Osoto and Neko both guide each to the positive and negative sides of their past/relationship. It’s ruined when you already know that he’s a serial killer and is messing with the girl because he’s a murderous psychopath. It’d have been good foreshadowing to his true nature and would be a way to get around the whole atheist scared of hell thing if he was to use someone else as an experiment to confirm first that you are indeed dragged by tentacles into a fiery pit. Unfortunately, even his manipulation was pretty half-assed. No master manipulator here. Just almost literally flat out said “Hey, you should go kill her” and that was that.
Otherwise, all the same issues persist where there’s not really much of a mystery. They just point at some things around the room and then the long train of exposition begins. Oh, a door is slightly ajar? Poke at it and… yep. That’s the whole mystery. A bunch of stuff fell on them mid-argument. There was also a lot of screaming and crashing around for people to have not heard any of it. But hardly the first time this show has had a poor grasp of how the concept of sound and noise works, nor do I suspect it’ll be the last.
