Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today I am frankly hesitant to announce that we are returning to Yuki Yuna is a Hero, as calamitous events surely draw closer to our long-suffering heroines in its ongoing Hero Chapter. You often hear that it’s always darkest before the dawn, but Yuki Yuna would strongly disagree – in fact, I hear it’s been working on developing a new, even darker night it calls “Night 2,” which will be taking the place of the dawn moving forward.
Of course, it’s not like we’re in a great spot to start with. After a mere half-episode of idyllic hero club shenanigans, our girls soon realized that something was terribly wrong, with Yuna and Nogi leading the charge in recalling their missing friend Togo. Having suffered through two sequential processes of fighting for the Divine Tree and watching her friends fall beside her, Togo has now disappeared from their lives altogether, presumably offering herself as a perpetual sacrifice to ensure no one else need suffer.
As ever, the Divine Tree has exploited Togo’s genuine commitment to her community, and frankly unwarranted guilt regarding her actions in the prior cycle, in order to make a feast of her better nature. It is not to gods or kings that we should declare our loyalty; it is to each other, to the people with whom we share our lives, and the community we hope to build together. Let’s get to it!