天下制覇

I guess it’s a step in the right direction.

Impressions:

Well, the start of the fight here was good enough, but the ending was ruined by a big ol’ expositional dump from Kuroko where she went through the process of explaining the punk’s power, explaining various facets of her power, and showing him exactly how she was going to beat him. They could have done a lot more with Dr. Light punk (DC supervillian, not Megaman inept Santa-wannabe) too, not to mention the question of why he abruptly gave up after Kuroko dragged him to safety or where all the Judgment people came from. I mean, it’s not like they showed the entire surrounding area three seconds prior, completely devoid of people and swat vans. I think I’d have rather seen her fight the telekinetic (or ferrokinetic… it wasn’t really shown what he could do other than throw pipes). Or hell, the first guy. All Kuroko did was teleport him onto his back, and suddenly, he’s apparently out of the fight.

Saten was the main focus of the episode though, and her whining certainly isn’t winning any awards in my books. "I’m so sad. I have no power. Oh, I know, instead of learning a martial art or trying to do anything, I’m going to pick up a coma-inducing dangerous audiodrug." As far as I’m concerned, she deserves whatever happens to her. Maybe even twice over. What even happened to that guy that she tried to save anyway? He literally just vanished in the 3 seconds between Saten running out and Kuroko showing up. And I’m still annoyed that they’re simultaneously trying to build Level Upper as some kind of mysterious mystery while it’s also findable by a school girl using Google. Judgment’s investigational department must be terrible.

At least the action bit made an episode that went pretty much nowhere actually somewhat interesting for a brief period until Kuroko felt compelled to put an end to it with a lecture about their powers.

Preview:

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