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Episode 12
- By far the grimmest episode in the Build Series, we actually witness the heroes lose spectacularly. Failing to stop Alus's Kill Sat from firing results in the city of Seguri being wiped off of Eldora, resulting in untold destruction and casualties. Despite all of what happened, Kazami thinks that this is all a game and that failure should simply end the mission and boot the team... except it doesn't, leading them to question whether they're still playing a game.
- Then comes the connection failure as a result. Kazami dismisses this as GBN telling the BUILD DiVERS they failed their mission, but instead, it boots them and every player in GBN out of the game. Not only that, but the connection failure was not just an in-game issue - it had real-world consequences, as computers and telecommunications worldwide are now acting up.
Episode 13
- If last episode's revelations were bad, this one doubles down on that. For starters, this episode not only confirms that Eldora was Real After All, but to make matters worse, May reveals she went to GBN administrators for answers, and what was their reply? None of that was part of GBN. They were on a real planet fighting a real war, with actual stakes and serious repercussions. All those Eldorans thought to be NPCs that died in the previous episode? They were real living beings, and they were all treating it like a game.
- The reality of what happened with Shido Masaki, the "pilot" of the Gundam Seltsam: Formerly a young, good-hearted young man who was a highly experienced GBN player, he was also summoned to defend Eldora alongside the locals but was defeated, with his consciousness was stolen and brainwashed as a weapon against the Eldorans against his will, while his physical body went into a coma 6 months before the series began...
Episode 22
- Hoo boy, it makes 12 and 13 look tame in comparison. Why? Masaki's in tons of pain to the point where he asks his old best friend, Cuadorn, to Mercy Kill him. To see him in such pain is saddening and chilling at the same time. If that's not enough, the Seltsam goes wild with some...stringy goopy things emerging all around it, and they also form new weapons for this beastly Gundam as well.
