天下制覇

Squid can’t play baseball. Squid can’t play baseball!

I slept through my alarm this morning, so life’s sundry duties are piling up. Zakuro’s going to have to wait until I take care of stuff, including but not limited to class.

Impressions:

Another rather meh episode. The middle part of Sanae trying to have a normal relationship by foregoing her usual stalker tendencies was particularly poor. They should have really ramped up the crazy and made her go insane with the hallucinations instead of just showing random things in the background as she melancholically walks through the town. The squidflies crawling over her face was about the right level, but then it was over and there was nary another joke to be found in that entire segment. Besides, this is Japan. They’ve been known to put ridiculous things on the sides of trains anyway. I was half expecting the twist that her hallucinations were real.

The other two segments were surprisingly samey. While the first was ostensibly about those dumb teru teru bozu things, it was more about Squid’s tentacle being able to express her inner view of people artistically. Unfortunately, that meant that most of the segment was just pictures of Chizuru as evil, Nagisa as an angel, Sanae as a monster, etc. The monstrous teru teru segments ended up being far more amusing. The last part was Squid sucking at baseball against a team in black named Dark until she started using her tentacles. Haven’t seen that joke since 8 minutes prior. And she uses it again to win the game? What a creative joke. Le sigh.

Preview:

Guys and dolls.