Category: In/Spectre

Here we have it, the last episode of In/Spectre. IF you’ve been following so far, it’s about what you’d expect: a faithful execution of scenes from the manga that maybe should have been revised or rewritten for the new medium.

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Here we get it, Iwanaga’s fourth solution and the big climax of In/Spectre. In episode eleven. It’s well-done and at least takes advantage of some of the benefits of being an anime rather than a manga. In Episode eleven. This is the big one – the final push against Steel Lady Nanase and the last shot to foil Rikka’s scheme. This is episode eleven.

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Unexpectedly, we get not one but two of Iwanaga’s solutions this episode, leaving me with… a few questions, honestly. Chief among them being “If we’re going to shortcut things in this show, why didn’t we do it for some of the setup episodes?”

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I’ve been speculating for a while whether or not the show would pick up when we got into Iwanaga’s solutions, and believe it or not it actually does. I’m not sure, though, whether this section being better is going to be enough.

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I love In/Spectre. I really do. The manga does an excellent job of blending detective-style mystery with urban fantasy and giving it a unique twist with Iwanaga’s ultimate disregard for the truth and disinterest in judgment, how she instead seeks solutions or uses the truth for her own ends. But every week this show just reinforces my thought that it shouldn’t have made the transition from text and still images on a page to a medium that has an unavoidable element of time.

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Look, In/Spectre, I’m running out of things to say about you while you’re laying groundwork. Could you please do something new for the audience?

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In/Spectre is not a normal show.

Knowing the source material, I was never expecting it to be. The pacing and story structure aren’t particularly cinematic, even if the ideas are strong and fascinating. So seeing where and when it works or doesn’t as an anime is actually an interesting dive.

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Answers! And the hook for the main conflict! That’s what this week is all about, and thus it gets into some of the most fascinating stuff out of In/Spectre and… kinda glosses over it.

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This week, our episode is dedicated to clues!

Which is to say, we are primarily concerned with the facts of Karin Nanase’s life and death, facts that will be very important to be aware of as we attempt to unravel (or something like that) the case of Steel Lady Nanase. We know her impressive bust saw her scouted, but the little fame she had came from a good break and quick wit. We also know that she had some trouble in life, with a rumor circulating that she had been responsible for the otherwise ruled accidental death of her father who resented her. This caused her to go on a temporary hiatus that lasted for the rest of her life, for reasons of being crushed by a steel beam in an empty lot near the hotel she was staying at.

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After finishing up with the Guardian Serpent and getting confirmation of how Iwanaga works, we move to the meat of what we’re likely to be seeing, Steel Lady Nanase. The time is two years later, and a busty, faceless ghost is appearing and causing trouble.

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