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i love this story to pieces but this has got to be the worst example of power creep/stakes escalation in the shounen genre bc how did we go from inter-species power struggle (which was great) to nuclear annihilation. rai was always a jesus figure, literally dispensing judgment on sinners, and in degrading his body in doing so, also literally dying for our sins, etc. the most martyr-coded MC ever. but like... attack satellites? nukes? it's just got kind of nuts at the end there, and i know it's more realistic for humanity to be relying on those weapons of mass destruction rather than the sci-fi/fantasy stuff going on, it breaks a lot of the immersion by being /too real/. while i'm happy the characters we love came back from being fridged in the epilogue, that's even more bizarre bc there's literally no explanation for it.. and it cheapens the suffering and sacrifice rai went through throughout the entirety of this series. i believe the writer when he says this was planned from the start but i have to say that weird choices were made lol.