Holy crap, this episode was actually good. Mutant concentration camps, bizarre parallel futures and time traveling, and Nao is somehow less annoying! Wow, why wasn’t the first episode this interesting?
Okay, I’ll be honest here. I never watched episodes 6-8, so some plot elements were a little lost on me. I inferred that Ayumi died in episode 6 from the foreshadowing from episode 5 (and all the silly memes going around the interwebs didn’t help things). It was nice to see the ego Yuu displayed in the first episode return in some form, and the first scene after the opening felt something like (Rewrite Spoilers) Kotarou’s date with Lucia in her route. Nao felt a lot less annoying, and her nosy behavior is even lampshaded in this episode! I love it! But I digress.
The mutant concentration camp thing came out of the blue for me, along with the whole ‘true power’ plot device thing. Some people were making jokes about the time travel stuff during the Kaza Watches event an hour or so ago, and for some reason, all of this hooked me, even if there were a couple things I didn’t fully understand. Also I hate how the episode ended, because I want to know more! Give me more, Maeda! :3