天下制覇

At least there wasn’t any group singing this week.

DS2 was the world’s most Talking Head-ful and boring episode, but unfortunately, I must be off to the airport without enough time to sort caps. It’ll be up in probably an hour and a half unless I do this really really fast.

Impressions:

Ah, Saki. Willing to whore yourself out to an impotent Japanese man just for a ride in the fancy car so people will look at her, or is it secretly just a plan to bite him so she can use his penis to stick it in another girl? I don’t even know whether to call that wish fulfillment or something else entirely. And do not think that him/her penetrating another girl’s face with her/his stiff pocky stick went unnoticed either. No phallic penetrative image gets past me. Although what may have been the most unrealistic thing of the episode, and I use term loosely in a setting where I fully expect the baddies to be powering their robots with the still-beating hearts of orphans, is that Saki was a worse pilot that Captain Wiggles.

Actually, a lot of the fighting this week was very Jump-y and kind of awful. Actually, parts of it in general were kind of cheap and off-model. But there we had cutting away to eyes and exposition ABOUT the fight in progress, random drill girl’s boobs, and the clamps. Good lord, the clamps. In a space battle with missiles flying everywhere, they tried to flex some spindly little clamps menacingly. And then Saki got cheered up, more Twitter followers, power of friendship, etc etc. If this was Vandread, they would’ve then combined in a thin metaphor for doggy style. But since this is Valvrave, Wiggles disappeared completely, Valv-Green turned into mecha-Ursula while Saki had a flashback to being physically abused as a child (no, seriously) and Shouko cheered for it.

Shine on, you crazy diamond.

Next Episode:

Home economics.