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You have got to be kidding me.

Impressions:

The first nine minutes of this episode was recap of the first three episodes. Yes. You heard that right.

Recap.

Three episodes in.

For nearly half the episode.

And it was followed by a montage of scenery and shots of Rei and Idiot riding around to church music until 11.5 minutes. What followed after that was a tour of CG gas stations for another 3 minutes where the lovebirds got into a squabble until finally, sixteen minutes and thirty seconds in, they’re attacked by some random rapist who leapt out after we got a CG tour of said gas station and spent the next three minutes groping Rei… which I’ve since learned was censored by THE GLOW FROM THE HEAVENS on the US stream. I cannot even begin to contemplate that most other people watched a version of this episode that was even worse than the one I saw.

Words barely begin to suffice. This was already moving at a snail’s pace, but half an episode of recycled footage and stills on the fourth bloody episode? And then all that happened after that was a character getting molested by some random guy coming out of nowhere? I guess rumors that this show had a budget were exaggerated. I can’t even muster up enough secondary bile to make fun of the zombie swarm suddenly appearing around them and standing there after a gun shot. Man, Madhouse. What the hell were you doing? There was almost as much new content in the Railgun DVD special I watched today as there was in this episode. You were outproduced by a DVD special, Madhouse. Gah.

Preview:

I’m literally angry with disgust.