Anime

Whoops, I completely forgot about this show! The first few episodes where pretty good, how are people liking it so far?

I remember reading somewhere that the reason zombie apocalypse stories are captivating is because they are not so much about fighting the zombies, but more about the interpersonal relationships and drama within a band of survivors. It looks like Gnosia is heading in this direction, which would keep things interesting.

Also, this has to be the easiest round for the humans yet, with one dumb and one selfless Gnosia.

Edit: I'd like to think that Sha Ming ragequited thanks to his trash teammate lol

This felt like a sort of surreal otaku shoutout/filler episode - a dolphin named Otome who squees at romance, an animated fighting game complete with poses and shouted attacks, a confession scene in a classroom at sunset and a sort of hybrid chuunibyou/yanqui/hikikomori (I was sort of surprised to not see futuristic cup ramens scattered around his room). All it needed was a beach scene or an onsen.

Still an engaging series - still don't know if it's going to be worth it in the long run.

So, all characters have now been introduced, and there were no new game mechanics (unless you count the thing with the doors, which might or might not be significant), although we've confirmed that it may be possible for the ship's computer system itself to be a gnosia infectee. We're also at the halfway point for this series.

At this point, I see two ways the second half could go. One is to continue placing more emphasis on the characters and less on the werewolf-game-logic-battle material (that may be what Yuri's flameout in the previous episode was supposed to foreshadow). The other possibility would be to make the remaining episodes a single loop or a set of loops that are somehow interconnected, with an external adversary (the computer, or the creator of the timeloop gear, or some kind of gnosia leader). Or I might be completely off-base, but I don't see how they can keep the whole thing from falling apart without doing one of those or the other. Maybe they'll surprise me.