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Roll Over and Die started off as just another "kicked out of hero party" show and stays that way for the most part. You got the usual deal with everyone being dicks to the main girls and them going around with their usual adventuring, alongside some nice SoL. Flum and Milkit's relationship is pretty cute. The last 3 eps however, saw a significant quality increase that banks on previously established plot threads to become something much bigger than what it seemed at first.
First was the Ink twist, a blind girl with eyes sealed shut. It was previously established that her heart doesn't work and she was taking medicine, which seemed to be the treatment for it. You had these eye-monster things running around town alongside. Ep 10 reveals that these eyes actually were coming out of Ink the whole time. This makes a ton of sense because Ink had refused to elaborate upon where she came from, so this leading up to her being a church experiment, along with her sealed eyes, feels inevitable in retrospect. The reason her heart wasn't beating was because she had already been turned inhuman, and the medicine was literally just to keep her powers in check.
Ep 11 showed us with the Dein fight that people experimented with Origin powers have a core instead of a heart, as previously hinted at by Eterna when she inspected Ink. This leads to Flum deducing that the eyeballs are in fact not under Dein's control. This is also helped by the ep 4 flashback emphasizing Neigass' surprise at Flum breaking the core, now cementing that Flum's reversal is the one thing that negates Origin powers. What Dein said at the end really stuck. About how Flum was that close to ending up like Dein, with their situations being similar. But while Flum got to have good and supportive friends, Dein went into the Church. Obviously they aren't 1:1 comparable since Dein just sucks, but it's an interesting parallel to bring up nonetheless.
Ep 12 greatly increased my opinion of the whole show and showed how unexpectedly thought out it was the whole time. We are given proper lore for Origin and how this world came around, the real reason behind the hero party's formation in the first place, Neigass' reason to be in Anichidley, the mysterious monsters Flum previously fought, and the Demons' actual role in all of this. Previously, it was said that the demons aren't actually at odds with the humans or kill them, something that stuck with me. They actually are the ones to protect the seal on origin, and the ones that attacked Maria/Sara's village were conspiring with the church. Like damn... the scale of this world and plot has been set way higher than I estimated.
Still don't wanna rate it too highly because it took a damn while to really sell me on itself and the characters themselves are mainly ok at best, but if it ever gets a second season, I will definitely be there.
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