天下制覇

We’re going to Vegas!

Impressions:

Well, that was painfully machinated, stupid, poorly written, and a slew of other things I’d like to say but would involve a number of less kind epithets directed at whoever was in charge of writing this mess. They went from "I’m so horrified of admitting that I like him that I’m in a frantic panic" to "we should run away together and get married" over the course of 5 minutes, most of which they weren’t even with each other. Meanwhile, all their friends think that this is just a dandy idea. It’s like this episode took place in some kind of bizarre continuum where Taiga and Ryuuji had been dating all along, but been kept apart by their evil Montague and Capulet families. They can’t even maintain eye contact with each other, let alone kiss. Apparenty marriage is relationship 1st base in Japan. Makes me seriously fear what ToraDora considers 3rd base. A Cleveland Steamer?

Let’s not stop with the bile there. Ryuuji’s argument with Yasuko was just plain awful. She’s fine for scolding him for lying to her. His counter argument on the other hand… How dare you want me to go to college… just like every single other person in the show thinks I should? That’s what you want. I want to be a dock worker. Or a coal miner. Or a manwhore. Also, I bet you wish I was never born. Where the hell did that nonsense even come from? The Book of Generic Teenage Rants? It didn’t even make an iota of goddamned sense. How dare you take an extra job for me, you hateful wretch. How dare you believe me when I lie to you about what I want.

Ugh. Enough. If you need me, I’ll be pacing in the angry dome. Literally fewer than 10 minutes of show passed between "Taiga thinks that Kitamura saved her" and "Taiga and Ryuuji are running away from home to get married." Just… what the bloody hell?

Preview:

Meanwhile, back in Verona…