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Why do all your shows suck these days, Horie Yui?

Impressions:

Things were already looking pretty bad for the show after spending the first ten minutes on a very dull fight against a random monster who's supposedly a boss. How many times are we going to fire a beam at an ugly CGI thing and have it harmlessly bounce off? The answer is a lot. But then it came time to end it, so they spent the little budget they had on the heroine swatting at the CGI thingy, at which point the following exchange occurred:
"I need to have a higher power level, so I'll use more power."
"You are using more power!?"
"You can't use more power!"
"I am using more power."
"Okay, bye."

And that's how the fight ended. Note that she didn't actually Use More Power, or fire a bigger beam that now worked, or anything like that. The most you can say is that she grunted slightly.

Then the rest of the episode jumped over to darkland where our other protagonist was trapped behind a desk, doing homework. It sounds like I'm being hyperbolic, but I'm not. His newest pedophile teacher had to instruct him on the proper way to… do whatever, so we get a montage of him studying and being lectured at to spice up the before and after of him studying and being lectured at. So passes another third of the episode, chained to a desk, listening to some dullard explain the geopolitical zeitgeist to a disinterested teenager. Epic fantasy adventure.

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