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And master of none.

Impressions:

This episode had a few issues with focus, but at least it didn’t suffer from the route repetition of the same joke over and over again that plagued the first few episodes. The minute long recap of last week was a bit much and a very poor way to start off the episode though. Thankfully, things got much better from there. Yamada stole the show in her scenes once again, dressing up as Katanashi and Kyouko as well as suddenly insisting that Katanashi treat her as a guest and eat with her. You would think Katanashi would enjoy Yamada as a miniature version of his female self or other people, but I guess that they have pretty much completely abandoned his gimmick after that first episode.

The whole Inami vs Nazuna thing that I was expecting to be the centerpiece of the episode didn’t actually happen until the last 5 minutes of the episode and was over a couple minutes later without any real incident. Annoyingly, a lot of the episode was spent on Inami admitting that she likes Katanashi over and over again. They are doing at least a passable job presenting Nazuna’s crush here at least though. While I still don’t like her, excessive angst, cluelessness, or melodrama over that certainly isn’t the cause. It should be patently obvious by this point that the claw is her destined partner anyway, and probably a lot better in the sack than Katanashi to boot. Those two plastic prongs really know how to touch a woman.

Preview:

Yachiyo’s continued war against Satou’s psyche.