I've maintained for a long time that if you want to achieve real breakthrough mainstream success as "otaku anime"-- the stuff for nerds that isn't Jump-- you need a major shock scene to get that juicy larger audience to care. Maybe it's because I've lived through the week-to-week airings of two decades of series where nobody cared until somebody died out of the blue, but I believe this is an ironclad truth.
I'm not saying it has a 100% success rate-- there are still gonna be Valvraves-- but it's a part of the process. I think everybody expected GWitch to pull something like that.
Shocking thing 1: I thought this was hack work, to be honest. Forced, cheap, cynical, dumb writing. It's unfortunate because this plot thread threatened to be interesting.
Shocking thing 2: Oh, this was perfect. Just beautiful. Emblematic. A scene to be proud of. The way it forces you to laugh as you recoil in horror.
