What was particularly brilliant about this episode was when Sougi and Itsuki tells the stroy of Tomoharu. The constant intersection between Sougi and Itsuki as they took turns to tell the story and narration; and with Angela’s Beginning in the background, it could not have been more perfectly conceived and executed. Absolutely brilliant!! In fact, I thought it was better than the Kensei death scene in ep 12.

We see this style of storytelling quite often in movie but I cannot remember the last time this was done in an anime. This makes the entire back story of Sougi and Itsuki particularly compelling and emotional engaging. In fact, I think they are far more interesting that Ouri and Makina at this point so O&M has their work cut out for them.