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Oh, the humanity!

Impressions:

This is the absolute worst kind of episode. They did the unthinkable and focused mostly on Raging Lesbian Poplar and Super Waitress Yamada for the first five minutes, completely blowing all their great jokes all in one go, and after ten minutes of Satou/Yachiyo, it was back to more Poplar and Yamada, mostly the latter. Now we’ll always know what the show could have been. Just ramp up Poplar’s attraction to dragqueens and replace Inami completely with Yamada, and… winner.

Of course, then Inami killed The Claw. Curse you, A-1. Callously offing the best character just like that. Actually, there was a lot weird/off about this episode, even aside from the long period of time spent in the flashback where everybody had slightly different hair. They also had a few different scene transitions. That’s… an odd change to make 80% of the way through the show.

Humorous invective aside, this was definitely one of the most enjoyable episodes to date. Yamada has that kind of of effect on everything. Aside from destroying The Claw, Inami was a little more tolerable for once too. She still can’t hold a candle to the Super Waitress, but she at least kept the stupid murderous rage in check for most of the episode, even when alone in Katanashi’s room wearing someone else’s flimsy nightdress, even if she does suck at Old Maid.

Preview:

A… Poplar episode? Really?