In this show, it’s probably the only memorable scene in the entire first season, as well as its seemingly climactic finale, so I’m sure no summary need be in order. I suppose far less deep and interesting, yet obviously much more famous and easily referenced examples of this phenomenon could include Light Yagami, Lelouch vi Britannia, and all their like to a certain degree, but I think I’ve painted my picture quite clearly, and, no matter how cheaply it did so, season one of Classroom of the Elite concluded by making Ayanokouji out to be one such “enigma protagonist” (which is the name for this trope I think I’m going to stick with). All these slow but firm steps forward into a deeper, darker version of himself built such a compelling character, because, despite spending most of our time with him-him still being the “main character”-he made decisions that surprised us not quite enough to think of him as being out-of-character, but more than enough for us to think he had more depth in store which we simply had to anticipate. Learning that Aoba had infiltrated the Dollars with the former Blue Squares, seeing how Mikado embraced this and used them to covertly police the gang. The classic, most perfect example I can think of is from Durarara!! Learning Mikado was in control of the Dollars from the start massively recontextualizes everything he’d said and done up until the point you learned this about him, and the series continuously does this to reframe how you would personally evaluate this character who you thought you knew well. I haven’t really come up with a name for this yet, but the type of show which is told seemingly from the prospective of the protagonist to a point, which later reveals the protagonist was hiding something not only from the other characters, but from even you, the audience, and said reveal then changes the way you think about the protagonist, the antagonist(s), and the story in some profoundly different way than you had before you truly understood who the protagonist was. Actually, that isn’t true at all, but it still very much succeeded at presenting itself as if it would successfully evolve into a very specific type of show with a very specific type of gimmick that I am personally a huge sucker for. If I was committed to covering seasonal anime like I am now at the time season one of this series ended, then I definitely would’ve written a review for it, because Classroom of the Elite is surprisingly a lot more interesting than it looks, at least in certain ways. This series, at least to me, is the perfect embodiment of the, “Ah, I see you’ve laid out in a very detailed fashion a long list of well-argued criticism against the anime I enjoy, but I’m going to take it upon myself to not seriously address any of it and instead simply jeer at you, ‘If you don’t like it, don’t watch it lmao!’” Because I’ve seriously been dreading this for quite some while. Typing this from bed wrapped in gross, sweaty, fever-dream blankets surrounded by nothing but a thermometer and my final, empty bottle of lemon-lime Gatorade to keep me company, I truly didn’t think my life could presently get any more physically or mentally distressing than this…then I realized it was time to watch season two of Classroom of the Elite. Not only am I debilitated conventionally, but I’m also now on medication to recover that requires me to, as many sadly do, not consume any alcohol, not only for the days on which I take said medication, but also up to five whole days afterward. Unfortunately for me, though, I’m not just “sick enough to get a work note for a few days” sick, I’m “I’m fucking bedridden with the flu” sick. I mean, now I’d have a legitimate excuse to take time off work and make up for all the time I’d wasted drinking hundreds of dollars worth of liquor per week. so deeply relieved, thinking what fantastic timing this was. Rather, I am currently sick as of time of writing. I know-good news for many MAL users, but I was almost able to make a comeback for an unlikely reason, and that is I got sick. I’d become a fairly well-oiled machine when it came to writing seasonal reviews and keeping up with everything airing in any given season, but thanks to this unhinged alcoholic downward spiral I’ve been on these past few months, you’re going to be seeing relatively few SingleH reviews for this Summer, 2022. *out-of-context spoilers for Classroom of the Elite (major spoilers for Durarara!!, and x2)*
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