天下制覇

Too bad they couldn’t spell ‘Merry’ correctly.

Impressions:

Well, we did get a little bit of Minori and Ami’s rivalry over Ryuuji this episode, but it was pretty minor in comparison to everything else. Most of it was just Minori angsting quite a bit and refusing to go to the Christmas party. Instead, we get a lot of welcome silliness after the awful Kitamura angsting, some creepily cheerful Taiga, and… just what I had hoped for, MORE BLOODY KITAMURA CRAP towards the end. Poor Konoka Kafuka Kihara clearly deserves better. Let’s match her up with Ami instead of stupid Kitamura. Can we throw him off a bridge into a laser-shark filled pool suspended over a volcano yet? Inko actually sort of carried on a conversation this episode as well, which is disturbing in its own right.

I’m glad that it moved back to being a bit more light hearted, but the episode seemed a bit undirected. It started off with Minori angsting, then she was bald and ranting, then back to angsting, then completely disappeared for the last half of the episode and seemingly wants no part of the coming stuff while we suddenly shift gears to Kihara trying to hook Ryuuji up with Taiga so she can have Kitamura. Oh well, like I said, the less Kitamura, the better, and he’s even somewhat alright when he’s being as weird as Minori. Tougher on the ears and eyes for sure, but at least it’s something.

I really don’t like the new OP or ED at all. They basically replaced all the attitude with winter coats and wind. Meh.

And yes, I’m currently watching Rakkyo #5. I’m 30 minutes in… which means another 90 minutes to go. This one is about three times as long as the last one. Oi…

Second Opening

Preview:

Christmas in February.