Wonder Egg Priority 11 Early Access

Before this episode I had given up on the show giving us a story with a nuisance discussion on dark themes. But after this episode, it really jumped the shark. Weird thing is that I actually liked the episode as a standalone story, just like you said, it is it's own show/movie. But it seems like it doesn't fit the narrative that the show was going for in the earlier episodes and it kinda cheapens the already watered down themes of the story. I won't go as far as to say that it ruined the show for me, more like it left me wanting it to be better.

WiruSenpai

At the end of episode 9 Accas admitted they're the ones to blame for

Ai Kyuu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjCKVDpPO4E

Enki

I'd like to think that Acca and Ura-Acca have a very patriarchal, old style of thinking that they would blame Frill for the suicides rather than look at their own actions (e.g. roughly rejecting Himari)

RJ Legarte

If this is the case, then I don't think it cheapens the show's themes of suicide and trauma, given that WEP has primarily focused on the trauma of young girls and has hinted on the Accas' unreliability WRT femininity. It's no stretch to say that the underlying problem is a misogynistic system constructed by men, who then try to shove their responsibility on a girl who they made to act according to their conception of what a girl/women should be (and I certainly don't think it's coincidence that Frill is reminiscent of the jealous, evil, hateful girl who despises other women trope). I feel about Frill the same way I feel about Rika: two characters that are easy to hate on a surface level and should be held accountable for their misogynistic actions directed at other girls, but also characters that don't deserve as much blame as one might think given that they are also victims of a system maintained by people with far more power and responsibility than them. The Accas will always be 1000% more morally reprehensible to me in this regard.

Not my idea, but I saw someone mention that Frill is a representation of misogyny and, just like how Frankenstein created a monster based on his ideas of man/masculinity, Acca and Ura-Acca created a monster based on their (honestly fucked up) ideas of femininity and the "ideal girl." Under this interpretation, I absolutely despise Acca and Ura-Acca, even moreso than Mr. Sawaki (and that's saying a lot because I hated and still hated him). The Accas are running around trying to figure out the causes of all these suicides, and they understand on a literal level that Frill is the cause, but what they don't understand is that the core of it all is them. "Don't pretend not to see me. I was born from the two of you." AKA "I am the misogyny that you impart on young girls. Take responsibility for me."

All of this sci fi mumbo jumbo of an evil AI girl being the final catalyst that drove all these girls to suicide, for reasons unexplained, AND introduce it in the third to last episode is just really frustrating to me as a writing choice.

Grumo57