They flew through content this episode, presumably to give us a big, climactic fight scene in the finale like they did last season. To cram so much story into such a small amount of time there were a lot of changes from the LNs, so many that I don’t have the energy to even begin to get into it. One thing that I will note is different is that the way the anime makes the balcony scene between Cid and Rose play out, it makes it seem like Rose should know that Cid is Shadow. However, the way it played out in the LN is very different, so don’t be surprised when anime Rose doesn’t put it together in the future.

Really looking forward to see how they deliver on the fight scenes next episode. Also, I can’t wait to see people’s reactions to how the season will end.