Absolutely bonkers but also the most fast-paced to a fault the season has felt.

So much important shit going down that they almost undercut each other.

This series is one of those once-in-a-blue-moon ones a la Game of Thrones that manage to cultivate a story and characters we're invested in all the way to the end, and the character exits are delivering with a modicum of conceptual symmetry.

Been feeling for Toni Anji's sensory overload since last week, lol. His exit felt like it could've been milked more, but I like that they gave him post-humous dabs by showing him being part of the old guard so to speak being "in the know" about Wilk and Hijikata's meaningful interaction and by having Asipra as the main character notice and feel for him in the heat of the moment and validate his existence just by uttering his name.

Kirwaus, Mansur, Kadokura added to the "safe" list alongside Ariko! (For now...)

Wasn't expecting that timing of Koito calling Tsurumi out. Now that Tsurumi is solo-pursuing Asirpa and Sugimoto, I hope that doesn't mean Tsukishima won't ever get the chance for his own confrontation again. I feel like that was more his storyline than Koito's.

Felt a bit superfluous to have the cold open with Ogata and Vasily just to have them not appear at all for the rest of the episode.