Idiots, Tests, and Summoned Beasts #20 — Final Assault
August 18th, 2011
Entendres! Ha HA!
Impressions:
Finally! A great episode from almost start to end. Today was a great day for shows all around with Mayo Chiki leading up the (probably rightful) back of the pack. Let’s start with the bad though. After a great opening skipping the OP so show a movie-in-brief hashup of different genres and events, the cellphone stuff was just… bleh and felt almost completely recycled thematically from last week’s first half. The ending also did not follow well from the rest of it. Yes, I understand that it was a cliffhanger, but Minami running up and kissing him for seemingly no reason was completely contrary to the last 21 or so episodes of her character, especially considering that she disappeared from the episode after Shimizu tried to strip her halfway through. I doubt Yoshii had any idea what she was doing anyway.
The rest of it was excellent though. Even if it was structured more or less the same way as last week’s, they actually showed a lot more fighting, more strategy to get around the unbeatable opponents, more heroic saves, Yoshii actually applying his brain for a moment. Almost everything that made Bakatest’s first season’s battles fun. It’s a bloody shame it took half the season to get back to that, but some payoff at last. The ending with Shimizu was fairly weak, but I wasn’t really expecting much out of it. This arc still would have worked much better if it was half as long, but at least they ended it with a strong episode.
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Ooo an episode that Aroduc liked? I look forward to it.