天下制覇

Okay, now the status quo is restored. …Probably.

Impressions:

Apparently there was some residual angst with Kitehead to finish up before everything could go completely back to normal and both girls could be fawning over the moron again. But mostly just in the second half of the episode. The first 10 minute or so minutes were little more than time filler of Himeji’s cooking corner and various failed plans that went something like "Let’s talk about a plan. Okay. That didn’t work. That’s three minutes of the episode eaten up, how many more do we need to pad it out to a full 22?" I’m not sure if some of them even remembered to have punchlines. But hey, at least it wasn’t more flashbacks.

Then it was time for Miharu and Yoshii to have a shouting/summoned beast fight over Minami’s feelings. At least they actually sort of bothered to animate the fight, although most of it was still filled with Miharu annoyingly shouting over the whole thing with Yoshii being his usual oblivious self. I think I would have actually preferred it if Yuuji had taken the opportunity to ambush Miharu instead of sacrificing Yoshii instead. After how badly all the relationship melodrama was handled last episode, the show needs a break from it to let me forget about it… preferably forever.