天下制覇

Get to work, Taka-nii.

Impressions:

A fairly average episode, which is always annoying to talk about. It did little in the way to do much other than fill time, without anything so great as to exalt or so bad as to mock. Well, there wass that girl in the pillow fight that was drawn so mannishly that it completely got in the way of the scene, but… eh. I did find the quasi-romantic bits with Suzu at the end rather awkward. The scene itself was okay, but since I highly doubt they’re going to actually go anywhere or change he attitude towards Takatoshi in the slightest, it feels very forced right now. Who knows, maybe they’ll build on it later, but I doubt it. I think the flags Shino raised with the deer will probably have a more lasting effect. I did like the little bit of Kotomi that we saw. She’s may or may not be blithely ignorant that she’s enslaved him. Either way is fine with me really. It certainly doesn’t make Mr. Doormat any more interesting though.

I guess this was mostly meant to be an introduction to the photography girl since she featured heavily throughout, but she’s nothing more than a pale lesbian Mutsurini knockoff without his burning passion for his work. The whole school trip could have been much more inspired or interesting as well. They seemed really focused on showing off lots of different places in Kyoto, but didn’t really make almost any jokes specific to them. They may as well have taken a trip to Vatican City. At least then they’d be able to tap the rich, untouched Japanese mine of pope jokes.

Preview:

Aria gets some.