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Sorry, Brave 10. You’re going to have to be a whole lot worse before you’re ‘good.’

Impressions:

More or less the same as the first episode. Again, if the production was better, this could have at least been interesting, but the show’s ‘action’ trades almost entirely on "character disappears, a few seconds later, a slash appears on their target." Sometimes not even that. Hanzou’s big finishing move was just him waving his swords in a circle in the air and then Saizou started bleeding. I think that technically counts as miming, not action. Isanami was a little less annoying this week, but resorting to both jealousy and a childhood friend… ugh. Come on, Japan. At least try. 

The part I think I enjoyed the most was Hanzou backhanding Isanami to shut her up. The part I enjoyed the least was probably just about everything else. Oh, it threatened every now and then to get notably bad, like Saizou’s childhood friend, Anastasia, who wraps her thighs around his waist as a way of saying hello, but then that just went in the direction of Isanami getting her panties in a twist over someone stealing her man. Then it threatend to get bad-good again when Isanami’s spider sense tingled and she sensed EVIL from a nearby mountain. That ended up being a magic snake, but a polite one that gave them plenty of time to struggle after it accidentally sat on Saizou. He then detonated an explosive to free himself (and give himself a boo boo) before stabbing it in the eye, which resulted in an explosion engulfing most of the mountain, yet causing them absolutely no harm besides somehow throwing them into a cave. Also, snake lady with snakes-for-blood lost about 95% of her potential threat factor when her plan to let Sasuke slash her and use her blood-snake to bite him in the face had no actual effect. "Ha ha! My plan worked perfectly. I’ve minorly inconvenienced you for a few seconds which I’ve now used up gloating!" Great work all around there.

Still not sure what to do with Saturdays then. Bleh.

Preview:

Battle on the big bridge.