Grimms Notes The Animation Episode 4: The happy ending
Published on February 6, 2019
I might have approached this episode with the wrong mindset, since I hoping for a bit of a darker turn. Instead, the resolution for Cinderella's story is pretty standard and doesn't seem to cause any trouble. This episode seems to conclude our "introduction" into the world, which is nice. My hope now is that the episodes to come don't just fall back to the pattern that we saw in the first two episodes, though.
I did like how Reina portrays the blank books in this episode. Because they introduce the uncertainty of "free will", they create the possibility for negative outcomes. I would have liked to see the conversation go further, though. Even if Ex's interference could make Cinderella suffer, he has also seen her suffer as a result of her fate.
So...does the book of fate stop at the "happy ending" like a fairy tale would? It seems like Cinderella should see this coming. There's always the possibility that this is caused by people with blank books, but it feels like it would be common in any story if that were the case.
Well, this answers a question I raised in an earlier episode. Ex has a wild card power after all. It was also nice to see the other main characters use protagonists from different stories.
It was totally random, but I really enjoyed watching Reina fawn over Alice.
Honestly, Loki still seems like he has a decent point with his goal to free people from their scripts. He just seems so much like a token villain to be taken seriously. Also, the series seems to be hiding some kind of connection between Reina and Loki for some reason. Are they siblings?
I actually think it might be interesting if the holders of the blank books were inadvertently sticking themselves to a script by trying to fix the stories. I guess I'm still holding out for some sort of dark twist in this series.