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Yes, this episode would be infinitely more entertaining if set to Yakety Sax.

Impressions:

Well, that was embarrassingly awful, even for Seacats. The first half was one of the most underproduced things I’ve seen since the first episode of Fairy Tail, rife with flashbacks, reused shots, and generic pictures of scenery, all dominated by essentially a 10 minute monologue. I woke up from it in a daze behind the Olive Garden missing a kidney. You could practically taste where they were deseperately stretching things out to churn one more episode out of this mess. Or at least, I can’t think of a single other sane reason to have both Ange and Quasi-Eva tell us about the ‘magic’ in the book in their own little 2 minute segments of "Reading With Witches."

The second half improved slightly, but it still had next to nothing to do with the main plot, covered nothing interesting, and just confirmed what we already knew, that Evatrice is evil and crazy and Ange is overlaying her onto other people now as the source of all evil. Thanks. I hadn’t realized that after she murdered her entire family while cackling like a drunk hyena. It was also amusing how her men circled Ange to shoot her. They probably ended up shooting each other. And once again, I point out that the core narrative in this arc, the thing that binds all the disparate arcs together, is still all but absent. Since they introduced the blue text over a month ago, Battler and Beatrice have barely even shown up except to explain the red text slightly further. Way to keep all your ducks in a row, Deen.