she is the Homura to Sekai's Madoka. At the very least, Makoto fits a wonderful bill of Kyubey, and, alongside the Devil Gundam, joins another wonderful tier of depictions of the Devil in anime, conducting young ladies to their destruction as he grows more and more bold in what he is doing.
This episode has young Setsuna doing everything in her power to set to rights the demonic hellstorm that Makoto's penis has unleashed upon this school. She
forces him to break up with Katsura, in no uncertain terms. And, while that seems pretty cruel and hurts Katsura a lot, possibly breaking what little of her there is left, it is also just about the kindest thing anyone has done for Katsura in the entire show.
And let's talk about
that, shall we? How fucked up is this show, that the kindest thing someone does for this girl is to force her boyfriend to break up with her after she's been ostracized and raped? That's Casshern Sins level of fucked up, that's how much.
Anyway, Setsuna, for all her smart-girl actions, reaches a point of desperation in her attempts to save her friend from Kyubey, and so she strikes what is perhaps the worst deal any woman has made with the Devil in animation since Megara struck hers with Hades: "If you dump Otome and stay with only Sekai, I will let you do
whatever you want with my body." The scene leaves it open, but there cannot be any argument at this point that Makoto is exactly the sort of guy who would take that deal without a second thought. The deal falls apart though, when you consider it for even a moment: Setsuna is leaving, and her aegis, such as it is, cannot shield Sekai for much longer. She's leaving basically NOW, at that, and she's doing it in such a way that Sekai is going to be upset and driven right into Makoto's hands. Meanwhile, what assurance, what insurance, does she have that Makoto would keep his deal? What reason does he have to keep it? With no one on the island and indeed, no one in that region of the world so much as aware of this deal's existence, he has no reason to keep it. He will simply turn and fuck Otome whilst keeping Sekai for as long as both girls keep pleasing him. Hell, he may well turn around, patch shit up with Katsura for a short while, till he gets to fuck her, and then dump her ass to the curb, too. The sky is literally the limit for him, as young women keep jumping one after another to get onto his dick.
However, Porem, da-ka-ra, Makoto's luck is cut short by a force he could never have reckoned with. As it turns out, no one can resist the fact that there is a student-run love hotel during the fair, and so the girl's basketball club has filmed and is now publicly displaying the footage of various young women performing sex acts on men of diverse ages for others to see. This breaks the poor short-haired taller girl I've seen as the only waifu of the show, but
most importantly it is proof positive that Makoto Itou has been fucking women other than Sekai, bringing the circle of fury full tilt back onto Sekai.
And it is fucking glorious to behold, ladies and gentlemen. Never before have I been so pleased to see someone get what was coming to them. Never before have I so eagerly awaited and so fully applauded the complete and utter justice of such a scenario. Sekai's bullshit is a full third of the problem in this show, and has caused one woman so much pain, suffering and agony that seeing this miniature, cosmic Count of Monte Cristo delivering the most deliciously karmic of punishments upon her, that the man she cheated with should cheat on her, can only be described as the most apt punishment I've seen a villain receive in some time.
Ain't NO porn like revenge porn, let me tell you.
And speaking of vengeance! Don't think I missed that cutlery, people. Oh God did I see that lingering, caressing shot of those kitchen knives, and did I ever see that bag a rattlin' with metallic weight in the hands of a girl whose soul is so totally broken that a knife seems like the only way out. Although the context is
entirely wrong, I cannot help but quote Shakespeare's Scottish play this one time. I recognize that the length of this post already must prove displeasing to some, but it bears citing at least a few lines here:
MacBeth said:
Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight? or art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
I see thee yet, in form as palpable
As this which now I draw.
This is it, ladies and gentlemen. We're gearing up for the grand finale, and by God there is going to be a knifing. A knifing such as the world has never before scene. All you waifus better hide under your beds, for the pale maiden rides, and in her hand she bears the Knife of Vengeance, and no door unmarked by imouto's blood will go uncarved by her most furious hand.
Makoto might be Kyubey, and therefore the Devil, the Prince of Darkness and Lord of Hell, but Hell, well, Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
