Is it over? Is she gone? Has Ushio been erased from the lives of everyone, including Shinpei? Summer Time Render Episode 19 aims to get us through the harshest event that has happened in the show so far. Let’s get right to the review!
Summer Time Render Episode 19 Overview
Summer Time Render is the latest anime by the Anime Studio OLM, previously known for producing critically and commercially acclaimed anime like Komi Can’t Communicate and Odd Taxi. Ayumu Watanabe directs the series, a director whose career so far has been intrinsically linked with OLM, having previously directed Komi Can’t Communicate and Space Brothers for the studio. The anime is based on a manga written by Yasunori Tanaka.
The series is also referred to as Summer time Rendering or Summertime Render, making this episode’s name also be Summer Time Rendering Episode 19 and Summertime Render Episode 19. You can read our review of the previous episode of this show right here!
– Summertime Rendering Episode 19 Review does not contain spoilers –
Summer Time Render Episode 19 Review- Save Us
Imagine for just one second that Made in Abyss and Summer Time Render were the only anime you were watching this season. Would you have any hope in the world left after the last couple of weeks these two shows have had? This is enough to make a grown adult question their perspective on life, if not something more than that. That’s how good of a run these two shows are having, and that is also how nerve-racking and painful watching them both in a single week is. These are the kind of shows that make non-smokers ache for a cigarette after having watched them.
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We witnessed Shinpei lose the most precious thing he had in the world, Ushio, in the last episode. That hurts on multiple levels because not only was this the second time a version of Ushio has died without having a tangible way to come back into the world (looping with Shinpei doesn’t count), but her death also ensured that humanity now has little to no chance of prevailing against the might of Haine, Shide, and the shadows. If you thought that the situation couldn’t be any more hopeless, you’d be dead wrong.
It could get worse. Much worse. Without going into the specifics, Haine is not a normal foe even without her prediction and devouring powers. She can copy people, and there is someone we haven’t seen be copied yet that could be game-changing for the show at this point. Although, one wonders how much the game can change when one side is so seriously wounded and the other is the one getting more tools into their arsenal. It’s like calling Michael Jordan back into the game after the Bulls are already ahead 23 points. Is it really necessary?
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Hizuru’s past with Haine has already been well established by this point, but this episode went deeper into it than ever before. It even answered some questions that were previously left hanging, such as how Hizuru’s connection with Ryuunosuke works and how she can perform such supernatural feats with her body. The confrontation between the two was great and gave a lot of weight to what was one of the show’s weaker plot points. Also, the title of this review is not a spoiler. Watch the episode, and you’ll realise what it is, but we shall refrain from saying anything else here.
In one of the earlier reviews of this show, I mentioned that the show’s emphasis on keeping all of its technology current with the times was great, and that point is worth repeating here. All the real-life references add a lot to the realism and make it seem like this could be happening on a real island somewhere out there, making the events here feel even scarier. This show does a masterful job of building up the tension and paying it off. It’s just that this time, it feels impossible to recover from the loss of Ushio.
Verdict
Summer Time Render Episode 19 was another riveting and heartbreaking episode that featured several callbacks and resolutions to unresolved matters. Have you been paying attention?
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