天下制覇

It’ll just make him stronger.

Impressions:

So, the only really interesting part of this episode was Kouichi’s past, and that was delivered so boringly that even that failed to keep my interest rooted in the episode. Blah blah blah, he was the result of one of the past people with the power of All-Nature who went nuts with it and experimented on all sorts of things. He, and apparently a cat, were one of the survivors and insinuated himself into Banten because he’s weird like that. Then to prove his "can’t die" story, he tries to fall off a cliff. Like the bullet hole in his chest wasn’t proof enough. I’m pretty sure he was shot in the back anyway.

The rest of the episode was dreadfully boring. The next part of the Ash Wolves’ dread plan requires some macguffin that Kumohira’s the best link to, so Yoite and Miharu go harass his girlfriend for information and to lie in wait for him. Then the act of cutting up dessert triggers some kind of horrible memory for Yoite (oh god, not another gay cake torture show) while Miharu takes the time to sniff Yoite’s scarf and flashes back to the last time he touched a woman. Then Yukimi shows up to rain on the parade.

So yeah, all bluster and yammering without actually going anywhere or doing much of anything. The whole meeting with whose-her-face could have been about 5 minutes shorter and we wouldn’t have missed out on anything. Likewise, Kouichi’s past was a few talking heads and a couple grainy black and white stills because the past didn’t have focus or color. Oh well, I expected it to be rather boring and it was. Kotarou is also up to something, probably through Raimei and Kumohira keeps giving her the evil eye, but it’ll probably end up being something dumb again. It can’t be any worse than Kotarou playing dating sims on his PSP while issuing orders though.

Oh right, there’s a new ED too, and it ups the yaoi ante quite a bit. I’m pretty sure that it’s mostly shots of ef, only with Miharu and Yoite instead of a heterosexual pairing.

Preview: 

Raimei steals Yoite’s hat. Yoite vows revenge.