Just caught back up with this, and wow. They did it again.

It’s been an odd series, because while the basic idea is strange, most of the story has been relatively straightforward. Not without drama, but the drama for the most part hasn’t been anything too far beyond the norm for school slice of life. But then suddenly they’ll drop in some huge gut punch of an event, and it’s like everything comes to a screeching halt, just left standing there, staring agape at what just happened.

I keep thinking, “I can’t believe they just did that.” But they did. And then it sort of slowly recovers, regains its feet, and starts moving again.

I’m really curious to see where it’s going next, because basically the whole school now has been clued in to the existence of the replicas.

I suspect that it’s going to be another gut punch.