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A recycled joke for a recap episode.

This is just a special early airing of episode one. It’ll still be another three weeks before the show actually starts.

Impressions:

There’s honestly very little to say about this episode. It was 100% pure recap from start to finish, and while there were a lot of flashbacks, they definitely weren’t the focus. They covered just about everything from the first season except the lightning twins and Minato’s sister and her torrid love affair, which honestly, since I haven’t even thought about this show really since the last season ended, was kind of nice. Every five minutes, some new character would show up, I’d have some vague feeling of recognition, then they’d go through the last important thing said character did.

So, it served its purpose for a recap episode and had at least a few pokemon sekirei destroying a bunch of military vehicles as well as one other one taken out just to show how strong the antagonists are. If you’re coming straight to it from the previous season, then there’s not much to see, but otherwise, it did a serviceable job just bringing me back up to speed at least. I still wouldn’t suggest hopping in right here, particularly since the first season is short and well worth watching, but it looks as good as it did before and does feel like 7Arcs has toned down the fanservice a little bit as well as rounded out their faces slightly more, both of which are welcome changes. I could just be drunk off of the overwhelming smell of mowed grass suffusing my apartment though.