天下制覇

I blame Zelda for Japan’s obsession with those annoying things.

Impressions:

I’m just going to go on record and say that my interest in pretty much directly proportional to the number of pirates in an episode. Lesbian surfer pirates count for extra.

This episode had zero pirates.

What it had was faffing about and about 90% of it could have been a 30 second montage at the start. Most of the rest was rain, just hey, Japan’s allergy to having anything happen trumps all. I’ve said it before and I’m sure I’ll say it again. What is so terrifying about the episodic structure, Japan? It doesn’t keep you from an overarching plot at all if that’s what you’re scared of. I’m struggling to think of what the point was for just about anything here. If it’s just "He’s starting to work with and get along with them," that was already obvious at the end of last episode, did not need 18 minutes expressly spelling that out, and I’m sure people could have picked it up incidentally even if you skipped it entirely. Maybe a "1 space fortnight later" tagline at the start if you were feeling saucy would have more than sufficed. Oh, and because apparently the space soldier thing wasn’t enough of a past, Red also has to have traditional protagonist amnesia where carved a space ocarina for his little brother slash surrogate slash probable clone and now feels compelled to keep carving them. He’s also confused by this strange waterlike substance coming out of his eyes. Because god help us if anybody acts like an actual human.