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At least the OP’s less irritating this time around.

FYI, I’m going to be probably an hour or two later than normal covering this Thursday’s shows due to matters outside of my direct control. You’ll survive.

Impressions:

Well, I can’t really say that I went into watching this with any kind of optimism. The first sequence was also a rather spastic jump between every single character basically reviewing a joke or two of theirs after a movie turned Squid paranoid. The second parts was a little less obviously "HEY GUYS, WE’RE BACK, REMEMBER ALL OUR CHARACTERS" but it was all about Sanae learning the valuable life lesson that the Squid is important to people who aren’t stalkers, and since the goal was a moral lesson in an approximately 5 minute segment, that meant that there were only slightly more jokes in it than in Schindler’s List. I really hope that Kiyomi and her friends aren’t getting even more screentime, but from the OP and the way they were randomly hanging around in the third segment… ugh. Go in the zany madcap direction show, not in the increasingly placid and mundane.

And finally, jellyfish swarmed all over the beach which turned into a competition tocatch the most. Nothing like sending swarms of the public after a swarm of invading venomous animals. But hey, they’re armed with tongs and plastic bags. What’s the worst that could happen? It took almost as long just to set up the competition as it did to actually do anything, and the only jokes were Squid-For-Brains tripping up while trying to steal things with her tentacles, and the scientist crowd doing their… scientist crowd things. So yeah, another fairly average episode for a fairly average show. Nothing new or different in terms of production or direction or the like either. I don’t really remember particularly well what the ‘good’ parts of the first season were, but with two fairly weak segments and a third that was about 40% setup.. well… not a great start to a show I wasn’t much of a fan of in the first place.

Preview:

School and fetishes.