天下制覇

Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…

Impressions:

Not the greatest of episodes, but certainly a good tier or two above the last few, so I can’t really complain too strenuously. There was a kind of weird reintroduction to Natsuko and Hotaru reusing old footage plus new voice overs at the start of the episode. I’m not entirely certain what that was all about, but I hope they don’t make a habit of it. Most of the good humor this episode came from Shiho going into demon mode over the flies both when they originally tried to control her and at the end once they were defeated, not to mention threatening Kyosuke with her pistol pointed at his crotch. Kyosuke enjoyed Minamoto finding toilets delicious while still under fly power a lot more amusing than I did. It’s also interesting to note that Kaoru’s starting to sexually harass Shiho and Aoi a bit more than I remember her doing through the first half.

Super Brief Summary:

BABEL gets deployed to deal with a predicted biohazard outbreak. It ends up being a swarm of telepathic flies, who almost immediately take over Minamoto, leaving the girls (and Kyosuke, who just came to laugh at Minamoto drying to lick the toilet, but was convinced to help by imagining Kaoru foregoing esper vs human to be Minamoto’s personal nurse) to stop them while Momo stuffs Tanizuki’s head in a toilet and sexually harasses Naomi. Kaoru’s pretty limited though because if she goes at full power to take down the head of the swarm, she runs the risk of breaking the seal to the outside world and letting the flies escape. Luckily, Minamoto manages to control part of the swarm and directs Kaoru to set off the fire alarm and flood out the flies. Pissed off at being shown up, Kyosuke goes back to totally braincrush Minamoto for real, but blah blah blah hope, future, etc etc and Kyosuke settles for just stuffing Minamoto in a toilet.

Preview:

The return of The Hound.