the formation of the future Bonten seems very close. The future that Takemichi had come back to change seems to have further solidified. Mikey has made himself completely irredeemable, and ...

several instances of Mikey smiling (including when he laughed before trying to commit suicide during the Bonten Timeline), and finally when Takemichi saved Mikey in the Bonten Timeline.

While the anime has just gotten ... Upon confronting Mikey himself in the present (who is now the leader of a dark new group named Bonten), Mikey then tries to kill Takemichi and then himself.