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Excellent episode eleven.
They did a great job of making the visuals and audio appropriately anxious, dramatic, and epic for several key moments in the episode.
Akagi (and friends) battling against fate might honestly be a stroke of genius - It adds some gravitas to the show, while making Akagi a bit more interesting and giving the show a neat meta-level that nonetheless works seamlessly in-canon with the characters and the plot.
The cliffhanger moment couldn't be much better. It was beautifully built up to, and the fade to black while Fubuki screams Akagi's name was a powerful and chilling moment.
I've read this show take a fair bit of criticism, but for whatever flaws it may have, it has a wonderfully theatrical sense of drama and timing. Very gripping and entertaining, at least in this anime-only viewer's eyes and ears.
I suspect that Fubuki will save Akagi, but I'm less confident over them totally avoiding casualties. It'll be interesting to see how things turn out next episode.
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