We have Jaguar when he was still a time cop, still very fresh. How does it do it? By making the three stages of Jaguar’s growth literally three different characters, using the handy dandy time travel conceit, and throwing them all together (it’s true, ‘mash’ is the only setting Concrete Revolutio has). Mirage of Destiny goes through basically all his character development basically in one episode. Just take the character of Jaguar, who has been a bit of a foil for Jirou. Rather, I think it tries to talk about many other things, like regrets, ‘growing up’, idealism vs pragmatism vs cynicism, and whatever other subtext you’d like to read into it this episode of Concrete Revolutio, perhaps more than even previous ones, is packed. Since Mirage of Destiny is not a story about the time police, and its time travel mechanics are incredibly permission, I wouldn’t say it’s actually about time travel. That is, as long as it’s narratively convenient, go for it. And Concrete Revolutio‘s time travel mechanics are not especially rigorous, and work much like Concrete Revolutio itself: mash it all together into a timey-wimey ball, paradoxes be damned. Unlike my expectations last week, though, it seems the story is only tangentially about time police more involved are Japanese ninja police. Dense episode this week, which I suppose should be expected whenever time travel is involved.
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