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Need filler and fanservice? I know! An amnesia episode!

Impressions:

Let’s not call a filler episode by any other name. This was nonsense and garbage using the worst of all writer crutches, amnesia. They introduce two characters and for some reason force Ryoushi and Ryoko out on a double date with them, whereupon Ryoko conveniently gets amnesia and spends the rest of the episode acting out of character for the sake of fanservice. Maybe if you want it to actually be enjoyable, you shouldn’t be showing it with a giant flashing sign going "SEE THIS? WE ARE TRYING TO APPEAL TO YOU! THIS IS CUTE! SMILE! BUY OUR STUFF!" Meanwhile, after the OP, it is not for another five minutes that we get a brief 15 second reprieve from the narrator, at which point she talks over the next five or six minutes of the episode. I’m starting to develop a nervous twitch.

The only damn thing of note lasts about a minute, and jut boils down to Pert & Plus trash talking Ryoushi before cutting up his slingshot’s rubber band. I’m not sure which of those two should be more ashamed, the one who pulled a slingshot as his act of alpha male dominance or the one who felt threatened enough by it to destroy the damn thing. So basically, while this show has not been impressive as of late, this episode was nothing but an obvious move to stretch things out an extra episode with absolutely no content besides Ryoko acting out of character to appeal to the simpleminded. Hoo-bloody-ray.