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Talk about a character fabricated on the spot…

Impressions:

This episode was just bizarre. A girl named Yuuko got associated with the rumors of ghost Yuuko, so decided to spread/fake her own ghost stories about someone trying to ‘kill’ Yuuko by faking an attack on herself, ergo everybody decided just to sacrifice her. Even for anime characters, who have been shown to believe that drawing the curtains is enough to protect them from werewolves, that’s pushing things. Particularly with an entire crowd of people leaping from "fun times at the student festival!" to "let’s have a good ol’ human sacrifice!" in the span of about 5 minutes. It’s also ‘amusing’ how this supposedly school-famous girl associated with the ghost Yuuko has somehow completely escaped the main cast’s notice until now as they try to learn about ghost-Yuuko. Stellar writing here.

Not that I think actually building up would’ve made it any less dumb, but the sheer leap between the two is dizzying and overplaying it so far visually probably did more harm than good this week. The whole thing would’ve probably been better served if the ‘bullying’ girls were portrayed more cluelessly and silly instead of shambling insane shadow horrors. Yeah, yeah. That was probably supposed to be blonde-Yuuko’s perception of them, but since her entire character was also being an utterly insane whackjob that barely managed to go two sentences without screaming and slavering about her own superiority, they weren’t winning any sympathy points with her either. And of course, for the fourth time now (I think), it had to end with the cliffhanger of the other ghost. At this point, it’s more of a running gag.