>- How did the Trinity already know about the Order of the Black Rose?
>IIRC this is the first time it's been explicitly named.

I expect Raven and/or Gryphon mentioned it in the "debriefing" phase of Blood Ties; the latter heard it mentioned by name on screen, and the former was on the Ohtori Institute campus for long enough to have noticed a number of things that would be meaningful in retrospect, if not right at the moment.

>- What was up with Touga going all beast mode before he died? I didn't
>see a written transition.

Sure you did:

In the half-second or so she had left before he struck her down, Izumi had the satisfaction of knowing that she had forced him to reveal his true face.

And that it was just as ugly as she had thought it would be.

The reveal was less metaphorical than Izumi had been expecting, but all the same...

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