天下制覇

"Eh, we didn’t like that part of the episode, let’s change it."

Impressions:

When the nearly 2 straight minutes of flashback started, I rolled my eyes. Then I noticed that they seemed to be going on longer than the original events had. Lo and behold, Sylvia’s shadow fencing and her fight with Teppei both had significant added animation from the previous episode. In a way, it’s kind of disturbing to think that they’re semi-randomly adding things to flashbacks. Thankfully it wasn’t anything particularly important and actually made watching them a little less tortuous, but who on earth even does that?

As for the rest of the episode… meh. It was mostly just an introduction to the other two girls, neither of which are as interesting as Saber Sylvia or Charlotte. Seika’s got her own little girl harem and is off being moralistic over things (and shares the same black hole panties as Charlotte), while Yuu is about as stereotypical a maid as you can get. She didn’t even mind Teppei drooling in his sleep on her pillows. Maybe if she had taken Teppei up on his suggestion to take a motorcycle to school, she could at least rock the biker chick look, but no… she’s boring and lame. The maid legion doesn’t even have maid triplets in charge of comforting Tarou Teppei at night. What kind of half-assed maid army is this?

It was just a very predictible episode from start to finish. Not terrible, but not as cool as the first one either. I’m glad that Teppei’s getting a real sword next episode. Maybe it’ll offset the cheesy "she looks lonely while fencing" from the end of this one. I’d also like to note that foil fencing so does not work like that, nor does it come even close to being anything like sword fighting. It’s not a real foil fencing match unless it takes the judges at least a minute to sort out who had the right of way on the attack. And if they’re fencing with epee rules using foils… well… that would just be nonsense! 

Preview:

Teppei levels up.