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I think the staff here got high and listened to classical this week.

The first two versions of Sekirei PE 9 I tried to watch self-destructed into codec errors about 14 minutes in, so I guess we’re going with Mitsudomoe first today.

Impressions:

Well, I’m glad that they only spent one of the six segments on the usual misunderstanding gags and played around witht he presentation by having one segment be essentially unvoiced and the ED Swan Lake, but unfortunately, none of it turned out particularly well. I’m sick of the super heroes = sex jokes, but they need to do more than just mix up the presentation a little bit while still relying on the same jokes ad nauseam. It didn’t really feel creative, so much as they realized that the segment had no meaningful lines so they stuck some classical music over it to try to be creative. There were a few good moments, but most was pretty blatantly telegraphed or not even a joke. Mitsuba goes to Yabe’s room, complains about there being no food, eats all of it. SEGMENT OVER. That’s the kind of ‘joke’ I expect to be done over the preview for the next episode, not as part of the actual episode.

Chiba was probably the top performer of the episode, particularly with his immediate toss of Mitsuba’s kiddy panties as soon as he got them. They could be doing a lot more with Satou too, even though a lot of his stuff seems pretty forced. Why exactly did he look like that if he was focused on his kite again? They never did say what exactly he was going to do with the kite once he got it. The whole Santa thing was also entirely too drawn out to be particularly funny. Make the joke and move on. Do not repeat the same joke eighteen times in a row, especially when it’s something as basic as "blinded person runs into an object.

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