Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today we’re continuing The Girl in Twilight, an intriguing 2018 production concepted by renowned visual novelist Kotaro Uchikoshi. So far we’ve received a healthy helping of science fiction mysteries, with The Girl in Twilight’s worldbuilding feeling both alluring and confident. The show’s radio frequency conceit is a clever way of imagining parallel worlds, and the first episode wisely avoided any real exposition, letting the characters’ earnest reactions to their strange circumstances speak for themselves.
Of course, it’s not actually all that common for first episodes to drop the exposition hammer – that more frequently comes in the followup, after the wild, inexplicable theatrics of the first episode have already drawn you in. That said, the pacing and dialogue of Girl in Twilight’s first episode were compelling enough that I’m not too concerned about a followup slump, and more importantly, the first episode’s actual greatest strength was how well it depicted the believable friendships of its main cast – an asset built out of deep-root character and dialogue-writing fundamentals, which are not the sort of strengths that tend to dissipate after a premiere. That’s probably enough soon-to-be-outdated prognosticating, so let’s dive into The Girl in Twilight’s second episode!