天下制覇

Can't wait to sit through long introductions to them now that they've been introduced.

Impressions:

Despite being the clear winner of the Sunday Suck-Off, most of this episode seemed designed around ufotable showing off their CGI, especially the creepy-ass people awkwardly shuffling around in the backgrounds like zombies. I also wonder how many episodes it'll be before I think "this should have probably been the first episode, and about half the length." Yeah, I'm sure that girl we spent a few minutes on will be important eventually, but she sure as hell wasn't this episode. Can't say the same for the dumbass board meeting of evil nobles though. They got the same thing across just fine later about not protecting her from assassins in approximately one line and 10 seconds of concerned staring.

It's also good thing they spaced out Jackass's presidential address for why he wants to be a hero with such things as Alishia panting and Mikelo putting out fires or we might have noticed that it was dragging on and utterly imbecilic. Then they had to double down on it with the standard Ben Parker speech before he flailed at the CGI bubble dragon wildly, which apparently works because the dragon's only attacks are to flail randomly at crowds. At least they're continuing to include and animate fights, even if they're only thirty seconds of non-bubble flailing, and cut away from them to listen to the peanut gallery jabber while also having bizarrely talkative assassins who stop and explain things to the people they're about to kill while bubble dragons rampage overhead. I'm surprised they could even talk at all over the screaming opera in the background.