天下制覇

This is the kind of Yuka I can get behind.

Impressions:

This actually ended up being probably one of the most entertaining episodes to date. Sure, we could have done without Shiori’s 8 minutes of exposition, random extra never-before-seen Kukkuri powers popping up for no reason and her fading away, and yet more Misuzu licking, but Yuka was at least two pineapples and a handful of bananas short of one Carmen Miranda hat. Her getting pissed at Kakeru for calling Misuzu more informally was trumped by dropping a razor blade into Misuzu tea, which was trumped by prancing around in her underwear out in the open. Ah yes, and then after Yuki-pon had her little piece pulled out, she went ahead and freed Lieselotte. Now we’re cooking with crazy.

Oh yeah, big shock there. Her name’s not Lisette. GASP. Come on, director. Of all the random things going on this episode and the last one, learning that someone you’ve met for all of five seconds has a slightly different name than you thought really isn’t that shocking. Otherwise, blah blah blah Transylvania, boytoy Verard killed, went crazy, is going to crash the moon into the world unless Kakeru can stop Majora’s Mask. Wait, no… Kakeru needs to kill Luna to stop the world’s destruction. Um… Voldemort? Anyway, evil witch trying to destroy the world, crazy, trapped by magic, freed by similarly crazy witch, although admittedly, it’s not clear if Yuka’s REALLY beyond the deep end (or being manipulated somehow), or if in she didn’t get the memo about "saving Lis is bad," while she was busy putting razors in people’s drinks. Assumably the former, but given how bad the direction in this show has been, I feel like I need to second guess myself.

I’m working on Rakkyo #07 here, but it’s 2 hours long, which is about as much sleep as I got last night, so… uh… it may be a while.

Preview:

Kakeru licks Misuzu again.