天下制覇

Rabbits are not monsters.

Impressions:

The first half of this episode was an utter wash of nonsense and terrible time filler. Japanese writers have to realize by this point that such ‘hilarious’ situations as "two girls bring guy food and both insist he eats it and picks which is better" has been done to death, right? Or "walks in on girl in own home in the bath." So why do we keep going through the motions with zero effort put into it? Maybe it’d be better if one of the girls wasn’t Origami, who is about as interesting as tofu paste, but I kind of doubt it. At least it was only half an episode of that instead of the whole thing, although that could have just been the desire to get in as many girls as quickly as possible.

Not that the second half was terribly better. Yoshino’s puppet gimmick is far too gimmicky, not to mention used as an obvious excuse to go easy on the budget. There were also a number of tone issues with Touka in there toward the end. They were probably trying to go for a jolting shift when Yoshino summoned Lagobot what with the extra dramatic speedlines, but somehow, her hopping humorously while Touka held it out of reach and Shidou stammering generic useless protagonist drivel are not a good setup for that. Who knew? Pick how you want to present this stuff and stick with something consistent at least. Touka’s also a lot less adorable when she’s being bitchy and her insecurity is played seriously instead of as a gag.

Next Episode:

Team vs Rabbit.