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Good lord, these last couple episodes have been intense.

Impressions:

Let’s start with the bad. The art and animation was again rather dodgy, and certainly nowhere near as impressive as last week. They also fell back into their bad habit of spewing exposition and technobabble out for three or four minutes at a time. I guess now that almost every major thing was wrapped up, they felt the need to add some completely unneeded confusion out of spite. My eyes pretty much glazed over through all those parts. Yes, yes. Jargon. Magic machines and magic people combining to be extra magical. Limitless power. Remaking the world. Supervillain Speech #8. Got it.

On to the good. Another bloody intense episode. Three corpses, two good guy betrayals, and one person with a 6 foot sword sticking out of them, and most of the cast thrown into the dying first world (at least from the previews). Tokiya’s the ringleader of the baddies now as some kind of even more overpowered Asura Cryin with Hagane under his beck and call, and while I’m not completely sold on Tohru being with him out of simple affection yet, I’m sure we’ll get to see that she went extra crazy at some point between then and now. Tokiya’s… eh… I’m sure he’ll be explained a little more in the future too, but he’s definitely a couple shades more crazy than Kagakagari ever was, so maybe they’ll manage to finish everything off this season after all. At least we’ve got a villain again and he did it by stepping over the corpses of others and sacrificing his woman. Finally, evil that we can all get behind.

Preview:

Crisis in Infinite Japans.