It’s time for the Suicide Squad to fully embrace the brave new world they now live in. spoiler for Suicide Squad Isekai Episode 10 follows.

Suicide Squad Isekai Episode 10

The King of the Undead hovers over the kingdom and the Suicide Squad appears to be on the defensive. But Cecil and Fione are ready to step in.

At the beginning of the episode, the knight Cecil is wounded and bequeaths his armor to Deadshot, who shares it with his teammates. Luckily for them, this armor doesn’t have to be united to be magical, and soon every member of the squad is wearing a piece of it; Deadshot takes the gauntlets, Harley gets the helmet, and so on.

This is undoubtedly one of the best moments of the series, with each character going through a magical girl-style transformation sequence that is not only stunningly animated (a significant portion of the show’s budget must have been spent on this), but is also hilarious in a way that’s appropriate for each character.

My favorite is definitely Clayface, who takes over the greaves and leg guards of the armor – the legs, that is. Without the rest of the armor, they look more like thigh-high boots, and so Clayface shows off his best Michael Jackson-style moves, perfect for the suit he’s been wearing all season. Harley gets her hyenas, we see Peacemaker’s butt again. The sequence feels somehow perfect here; it’s both hilarious and hilarious, as Suicide Squad’s best moments usually are.

But the whole episode is full of great moments. Rick and Clayface dragging Enchantress’ unconscious body after freeing it from the clutches of a dragon skeleton is a standout moment, as is Fione and Harley finally making the identity swap moment a reality, but flipping the script in a way that empowers Fione.

The most interesting twist, however, is the biggest spoiler of all. Following in the footsteps of The Dark Knight, Batman, And Batman: The Masked Crusaderthe last few minutes are dedicated to the Joker. He appears again and again in the series and has some kind of influence on Harley. From the beginning, I was more interested in him than the Joker. But he didn’t just drive his car by playing piano keys.

This Joker seems genuinely ambitious in a way that fits Joker’s chaotic way of doing things, but what I love most is that he has an authentic-seeming relationship that hasn’t been built on abuse up until now. So often, the Joker and Harley relationship has been extremely toxic, to the point where it’s become an almost canonical part of her character – the fantastical emancipation of a certain Harley Quinn. Here, however, it’s more akin to the Bonnie and Clyde relationship that people like to falsely attribute to the duo. The final minutes of the show reveal that the Joker was orchestrating everything all along. Looking back, there were clues, like the way Katana says “Harley” during their second fight.

It gives the series a great framework. Amanda Waller knows more than she lets on, and it makes actions like detonating Clayface’s bomb seem theatrical rather than arrogantly ignorant. As someone on Reddit described it, it looks more like some sort of Danger Room for Harley, or even a LARP D&D campaign. The series starts with Harley talking to Joker about wanting to go to a whole new world to experience something interesting. And so he went to a new world, took control, and gave her a fun fight with plenty of danger and triumph while playing the role of each character she fought. Again: It somehow seems like the ultimate romantic gesture. He recreated an entire world to function as a potentially deadly amusement park for her.

The question that the ending leaves open is whether there will be a second season, and should be there?

We don’t know the answer to the first question. DC and WIT Studio haven’t announced anything yet and might not for a while. But despite this cliffhanger, does it need a second season? I don’t think so. There’s a way to read it that suggests a second season would make sense; they fought the Undead King and won, but it was all a ruse – now they have to fight the Joker, the most dangerous enemy! On the other hand, I think it’s a bit of a red herring. The Joker’s reveal doesn’t have to be a prelude to a second season. It’s just the revelation that the whole thing was just a fun side quest he put together for his best girl Harls. It doesn’t have to be a second season at all because what happens next just doesn’t matter to this story.

If Suicide Squad Isekai Season 2 is here, I’d love to watch it and I’m excited to see what they do with it. But what I’d like even more is for DC to send more of their characters to anime houses like WIT Studio where they can play around with the character in a short series. We’ve already had Batman animes, but how about a Batman anime series? Or something with Gotham City Sirens? Booster Gold and Blue Beetle could be perfect for an anime. The Flash has the kind of overly powerful ability that would be great for a multi-episode battle, Dragon Ball Z style. I don’t need this trend to continue. Suicide Squad Isekaibut I don’t want it to stay that way. DC, listen up. You’ve got a crazy idea on your hands.

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