This episode suffers from some of the same issues we saw in the previous arc, namely that there are a lot of incongruent scenes that fit into the corresponding episode way back in GOU but can feel difficult to parse if its not fresh in your head. A few commenters also pointed out that my complaint about Teppei could be contributed to how memories from of previous timelines are seeping into other characters.
That’s…feasible but it presents a problem with all this timeline hopping and how the Question/Answer arcs work. As far as we, the viewers, know that effect is a result specifically of Satoko hopping around repeatedly. So the question is, how far into her fragment-hopping is the Rena arc? We know there was a substantial amount before she decided to “watch the world burn” in order to get back at Rika snubbing her in school but I would think that would affect Teppei. I…
