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I honestly thought Rental Magica was better than this…

Impressions:

Obligatory hot springs episode. In fact, painfully generic hot springs episode. It was made all the creepier by Nekoyashiki wanting to go bathe with the girls (with the battle music playing no less) and Itsuki smelling Honami. Yeah, so, 20 minutes later, it was ‘revealed’ that he wanted to bathe with his cats… then why was he trying to go into the girl’s locker room? After the opening fanservice… there was pretty much more of the same. Addie managed to attack a water pipe, Honami dug up buried treasure, and then Mikan accidently sparked the two into running around like idiots (also had the battle music) and fighting eachother until they all ended up falling into a hole with the rock they were looking for in the first place. Then, lo and behold, teamwork was required to drag the stupid thing out. Like all hot spring episodes, it of course ended with the walls between the male and female sides dropping. At least the girls were to blame for it.

This episode was pretty much 100% comic. Absolutely nothing progressed in terms of plot, except Addie working more with Astral.  The only real danger to anybody was from Addie and Honami’s collaterol damage when they attempted to attack each other. Other people may enjoy this more, but such a drastic switch in tone and presentation of the show made things feel… awkward to say the least. Rental Magica is not built as a comedy and really should not try to be one. Even the fanservice was pretty lame, unless you consider shots of bare backs to be racy. Meh. I don’t think even the complete removal of the steam could have increased my interest here though. I ordered the “magical action deluxe.” Why’d I end up with the “magical mcnugget comedy kid’s meal?”