So, all characters have now been introduced, and there were no new game mechanics (unless you count the thing with the doors, which might or might not be significant), although we’ve confirmed that it may be possible for the ship’s computer system itself to be a gnosia infectee. We’re also at the halfway point for this series.

At this point, I see two ways the second half could go. One is to continue placing more emphasis on the characters and less on the werewolf-game-logic-battle material (that may be what Yuri’s flameout in the previous episode was supposed to foreshadow). The other possibility would be to make the remaining episodes a single loop or a set of loops that are somehow interconnected, with an external adversary (the computer, or the creator of the timeloop gear, or some kind of gnosia leader). Or I might be completely off-base, but I don’t see how they can keep the whole thing from falling apart without doing one of those or the other. Maybe they’ll surprise me.