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Yes, creative joke. Never seen that before.

Impressions:

I liked how as soon as they left Academy City, the CG stopped looking like it came out of a ruminant’s lower intestine. At least they toned down the fanservice and raging lesbian molestation this week.  However, when we hit the debriefing scene and learned that the antagonist was an invisible esper with a taser, I lost most of what little enthusiasm I had for the rest of the episode. That they steadfastly refused to show the victims’ eyebrows also forecast the moronic joke well ahead of time.

I’m not sure if it would have improved things or not if they hadn’t revealed it to the end. This show certainly doesn’t have it in itself to have a character gouge out eyes or scar faces or something that would actually be of concern, but when the plot of the episode is "super powerful espers are chasing a serial eyebrow drawer who hates people with normal eyebrows," there’s not a whole lot of drama that you can wring from that, especially with an electromagnetic battery able to zap massive areas at once just sitting around. Invisibility isn’t much use against area attacks, nor is a taser useful against the electric girl. The most dangerous thing about her was that she wielded a permanent marker. Maybe if they played it for comedy instead of drama, but this episode was almost completely devoid of any kind of comedy at all outside of the poorly delivered eyebrow nonsense.

I don’t know if I’ll last any longer with this. The preview for next week wasn’t promising either. This was even more tedious than last week and there’s little indication that it’s going to change any time in the future. I know that if Hekiyoh was available when I got home, I probably wouldn’t have bothered with this. Speaking of which…

Preview:

Yes. The preview was nothing but their faces being lit by cell phone ipods.