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Please spay or neuter your devils.

Sorry I’m a bit slow. Had a rather busy morning.

Impressions:

A pretty decent episode overall, even if the technobabble and magical machine to turn everybody into gorillas suck the life out of everybody in the area seemed a bit randomly thrown in and straight out of the Legion of Doom’s playbook. At least I was wrong about Christina, as she ended up sort of being the mastermind/reason for all of it since she lost control of her powers and all this was supposed to put things right. Props to Kaga for being ruthless and attacking while Kurogane was in midsummon. It’s nice to see a villain who doesn’t just stand around and let the hero wind up for their big attack. His Asura Machine’s power also apparently can put people into stasis, so I guess that’s at least seven or eight steps up from "has a chain." Haruna showed off her Asura Machine this episode as well, although the more she talks, the less inclined I am to listen to her. I blame the Osakan accent. Anyway, hers is all about making strings that explode, so I’m pleased on that front. Hopefully there’s a showdown between GD and Tomo’s group in the future for the excessive boom that a Shuri/Haruna fight would bring.

So, while this arc wasn’t as good as the previous Shuri one, its main sin is that it really didn’t go anywhere or do anything particularly interesting. The token loli is lame and they really had a chance for some decent Takatsuki moments here, but all we got was "Takatsuki’s not an animal!" and everybody just went back to the daily grind. About the only thing  that seems to be leading into the final arc for the show is Misao’s now hearing voices from some woman in a tree. I just hope they get back to ol’ whose-her-face, Shuri’s boss with the sword. How can you show a girl with a sword and not have her slice someone up? Egregious abuse of Chekhov’s weaponry if that’s the case. I do have to question where exactly Kurogane was punching at the end, because if he had completed his swing without Christina getting in the way, his fist would have gone straight through ol’ chainy’s crotch. Effective, I’m sure, but I didn’t figure Misao for the balls-punching type.

Really though… just three epsiodes left, and next week looks like generic ponytail filler. I’m getting Sekirei flashbacks all over again. Don’t do this, Seven Arcs… please.

Preview:

Let’s all go to the ball!