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How quaint.

Impressions:

Because the only thing more interesting than watching a five minute phone conversation is watching Touma embark on a telemarketing campaign to save Index without paying attention to the time. Thankfully, once the telemarketing was over, things picked up a little bit, but unfortunately, that was the entire first half of the episode, and even more unfortunately, it still remained rather boring and he spent another 2-3 minutes on the phone and soliloquizing before deciding to "become a hero" and attempt to use his magic nullification to… stick his finger in Index’s mouth. That’s actually the point where things got interesting again though, so I can’t really complain about the weirdness there too much. It’s just a shame that it happened 21 minutes into the episode instead of 2 minutes into the episode.

Consider this an argument for changing the source to make it suck less. Would it really have hurt anything to have another Kaori beat Touma up again instead of calling him on the phone? Or Stiyl to set fire to something while vandalizing Touma’s apartment? Hell, put Touma in a Bonta outfit for his "I’ll get stronger for you, Index" speech. I’d have been a fan. Sure, I’d have been confused as hell, but at least I wouldn’t be complaining about being bored. In fact, let’s just have all portions of this show that don’t involve magic or ESP be told using sock puppets. It certainly can’t be sillier looking than Komoe’s magical brain lesson.

Preview:

Touma’s Goal: Grope Index’s mouth again. Yeah, there’s no way this can go wrong.