Ron Reads Hyperdrive Episode 3 by Manny Jacinto

October 25, 2025

Ron Reads Hyperdrive Episode 3 by Manny Jacinto

At the end of the second episode, it looked like Kai was stranded out in the Dusk Lands without oxygen. What’s going to happen to him now? Let’s find out!

This final episode starts with Manny Jacinto catching his breath, and lemme tell you, it’s nice. Rei’s found him and saved him, and he keeps saying fuck, so my brain is a little scrambled. But it looks like everything’s okay and Rei and Kai head home.

But Kai, obviously, is still thinking about how everything went down. He checked all his equipment before going on this mission, so it’s very suspicious when things go awry. Rei is asking him to drop it, and because the story has already made clear from the start not to trust anyone, I am also very suspicious.

Rei leaves him alone again, as it seems always happens with women in his life, and as Kai searches for her, he ends up somewhere where he does a lot of groaning. Non-sexual, but come one now, I know you all are gooners and goblins.

He finds Ono, but he’s tied up? He cuts Ono free and learns that just like Natalya, Rei is working for the enemy/the state/Big Memory. All the women he’s put his dick in turned authoritarian! You gotta look into that, Kai! He finds out that he’s been helping the enemy/the state/Big Memory, and we get jargon that we really aren’t here for. Or at least I’m not really here for.

Rei kills Ono, Kai escapes Rei, and now he’s on a mission to go to The Echo, a MacGuffin that he needs to find so he can escape Ono’s fate. He keeps saying Echo that I can’t help but think of Echo, Jin of BTS’ second EP!

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Eventually, Kai finds out what The Echo is, and we get back to the scene at the very first episode. And we find out that the big reveal is that Kai got addicted to his device — basically a condemnation of being too wired. And that’s a good message! One I’m trying to do in my own life! But I don’t need to hear that preaching from an app that needs me to be addicted to their shit. This isn’t a free thing, you know!

Turns out that Kai isn’t a romantic lead. He’s a metaphorical crack addict who’s gotten the people around him addicted to it as well, and now he’s wanting to go to rehab, essentially. And it’s been four years of this. Trying to quit, but always getting pulled back in by the sex.

AND YOU KNOW WHAT. THE SEX IS FUCKING GOOD. GIRLS, IT’S PRIME GOONING MATERIAL. JUST DIVORCE IT FROM THE REST OF THE THING.

I don’t know what to think about this, honestly. Maybe I should have expected it since the tags do say dystopia. Throughout the three chapters, Kai doesn’t have any agency and is pulled back and forth by the women in his life, and maybe that’s what gets some people going! No judgment here! But for me, it just made the experience partly enjoyable and not wholly enjoyable like The Trials.

If you’re thinking of listening to this — I can see my blog stats, a lot of you are at least a little interested — go into it knowing that the non-erotica parts are going to be either jargon-y, confusing, or unhappy. Just keep that in mind while you’re listening, and you should have a better experience than I did. Manny Jacinto really put his whole Manussy into this, as one of the comments on Quinn says, and I want people to appreciate that.

Here, have a gallery of the pictures I took when he was here in the country for the Freakier Friday premiere.