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Oh no! My only weakness! Getting wet!

Belated Edit: Basara aired over an hour late today. It has yet to be broadcast as scheduled, being 15, 40, and 65 minutes late each episode respectively. By the time the run’s over, it’ll probably not even be on the same day.

Impressions:

So much for the upswing last week. This was right back to morose talking heads morosely talking and wrapping up what can be charitably called “The Mophead Supermech arc” as if the writing was inspired by Megaman. Because the plan of “use smoke” requires bloody nearly thirteen minutes of review and setup, and of course, the only people capable of doing anything are the prozac gang, plus some random people from the enemy’s side they don’t know. And then the insert song kicked in for their grand plan to… shoot some smoke bombs. Then lure the invincible flying mech onto a bridge. And by lure, I mean just drive onto a bridge while the baddies were throwing temper tantrums about the anguish the protagonists’ genius plan of smoke was causing them. Plan accomplished, stop car, get out, and stand there. Good work, team!

Plan executed, they found the Death Star’s exhaust port… just some random spot, mind, which had apparently been untouched to date, and stuck a knife in it, thereby eliminating the threat of the supermech once and for all. Good thing they didn’t invade while it was raining or they’d just have to rely on just the comically overwhelming odds and orbital bombardment instead of something designed by Dr. Wily. Oh, and the princess had a magical girl transformation sequence, which caused Captain Mophead to begin screaming in agony. Why? Hell if I know, but it’s practically all he does the episode besides getting shot. Smoke? Scream in agony. Princess? Scream in agony. I guess when you’re going to then gut shoot a character and your writing is already relying on things like magical robots that flash their weak point when they get wet, we’re probably not expecting a whole lot of scrutiny.   

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