TWEWY The Animation: Episodes 5 and 6

Episode 5

Episode 5 covers Week 2 Days 3 and 4. Interestingly, they skip what is Day 3 in the game and go straight to game days 4 and 5. (Day 3 in the game is the Tin Pin Tournament that Nao and Sota win for you.)

Day 3 in the anime then is the day that Joshua tricks Neku into running to Cat Street with him to meet Mr. H and get their phones upgraded. I really like being able to see more of Mr. H, and see the cafe, but I still feel as though we don’t know much about him. Joshua makes one comment about him keeping Players safe from cheating Reapers, but that’s about it. Maybe that’s all we need for now, I’m not sure.

In the game, this day ends with Joshua and Neku checking out the new ramen store and catching up with Makoto and the Prince. But that’s skipped here in favor of them just noticing that there’s more red skull pins around.

The next day then is when the duo heads up to Udagawa. First they see the band members of Death March and Joshua quickly helps them find their mic with his phone. Interestingly, BJ and Tenho are both there and haven’t been replaced by the techie like I thought after episode 1. They then run into Nao and Sota who warn them about the Taboo noise. In the game, this is actually a really cute conversation where Neku tells them about how he’s playing the game again for Shiki, and the couple reassures him that it’s not his fault that she’s his entry fee. They’d play the game a million times for each other, it’s good that he cares about her so much. That’s all skipped here. I’m not sure why, maybe it’ll come back later. Here’s hoping anyways, I really like that interaction and I think it shows a lot about Neku’s guilt.

Joshua and Neku make it to Udagawa, where Neku seeing Joshua’s memory of Neku dying and realizes that he’s partnered to his killer. Episode ends there.

I know I just complained about a bunch of changes from the game, but I bet these decisions were made for time reasons. I do think that this was a super solid episode all around, I just hope that the conversation with Nao and Sota comes back, as well as the Tin Pin tournament mission. It’d be cool to see later on!

Episode 6

This episode covered Days 5 and 6 of Week 2. Interestingly, it looks like they took Day 6 from the game version and dragged it out into two days. In the game, they go see Mr. H, then head for the Shibuya River, Joshua demolishing some Taboo Noise along the way. Here they spend one day going to see Mr. H, and another to get to the river.

While at Cat Street, Neku runs into Nao and Sota again who finish their conversation from earlier and tell Neku that he didn't do anything wrong to get Shiki taken as his entry fee. I'm really happy that this was thrown in! Since we missed it last episode I was hoping that it'd come back in some form.

Joshua and Neku then head back through the park, where Joshua tells Neku that CAT is Mr. H. It's a really well done interaction actually, I was laughing at Neku's embarrassment and enthusiasm for having met CAT and explaining what CAT is to CAT. Beat attacks them again, and Neku grabs Rhyme's pendant after Beat drops it and the day ends there.

Next day Joshua and Neku head to the Shibuya River where they are jumped by Taboo Noise. Joshua does his super powerful thing and Kariya realizes that Joshua's alive. It's a pretty short day, and all in all, very similar to the game. 

What's interesting is that Day 6 in the game also involved a mission being issued to defeat some Noise. Miniamoto actually helps Neku and Joshua with their first fight so that they don't get erased, and as the person playing the game you can choose to help others along the way. This is actually the day that Nao and Sota get erased because you can't save them in time. I'm guessing the writers are leaving that important point for the next episode, it's going to be interesting to see how that turns out.

So Week 2 is basically over, and I guess the writers are completely ignoring Tin Pin haha. The next episode wraps up Joshua's week, we have the boss battle, probably multiple characters dying, and other fun things. Can't wait haha.