Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today we dive into the last chapter of a tangled and frequently devastating drama, with the final plus-sized episode of Wonder Egg Priority standing before us. There is much left to resolve, but after our triumphant preceding episode, I have more hope than ever that Ai will be able to reach and rescue her friends from whatever fate Plati, Frill, or the wonder egg arbiters have in store for them. Isolated within a demeaning, misogynistic culture that seems all but indifferent to their pain, Ai and the others briefly found community in each other – but in the wake of Frill’s rebellion against her cruel parents, their bonds have frayed and left each of them painfully alone.
Or at least, so they believed. Our last episode offered a quiet, insistent challenge to that feeling, that understandable instinct to crawl up within yourself and reject all external stimulus, determined to at least avoid the pain of judgment and disappointment. It is a cruel contradiction that in the depths of depression, it actually becomes all the more important to open ourselves up to potential pain, to seek the validation and unconditional support that might remind us of emotions beyond self-loathing, fatigue, and certainty that life will always be this way. For Ai, that realization came in the form of her own alternate self, the version of her who never found a friend with whom to share her feelings, and thus never wavered from the path towards self-annihilation.
To this new Ai, our own uncertain heroine seemed like a figure of confidence and wonder, a model inspiring her to genuine hope for her own future. And through those unclouded eyes, the Ai we’ve followed was able to recall the gentle, unerring support of her mother, who pledged to love her daughter no matter what path she chose. Spurred on by these unexpected allies, Ai vowed to believe in her own future, knowing that it is only through that irrational, desperate hope for tomorrow that she can find the strength to protect those she loves. With Ai’s own personal trials completed, let’s charge towards the future!