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The mind tends to wander into other languages when bored.

Impressions:

A pretty weak episode, especially following last week’s mini-squid adventure. I’m glad that they didn’t go for the completely predictible joke of Squidhead misunderstanding the superhero show and attacking things, but all that really happened there is that she cheered for the squid demon, and then dressed like it to be cheered. Throw in a ‘parody’ OP of Noh Mask Rider and I’ve now listed 100% of the jokes in that segment in approximately two sentences. The second part was a little better. Squid’s a genius at math while Eiko’s an idiot. Genius is probably stretching it though since she did nothing but basic algebra, although I did laugh when for the first example, they had the answer be X = 0. Is Eiko even trying? Is Diomedea? Anyway, she then tried to use her mastery of math to enslave others as well and learned that nobody cares before imparting her squid secrets to Eiko. QED.

That brings us to el segmento final, Nagisa develops a crush on Goro, which turns Squid jealous because Nagisa belongs to her. The ‘love’ quadrangle (more like a linear path while we’re on the subject of math) wasn’t horrible and at least contained about as many jokes as the entire rest of the episode, but they didn’t do anything particularly interesting with it either. It was just the three of them standing around yelling at each other for 7 minutes. Nagisa’s occasion delusion were about the only thing to differentiate that segment from the thousand others that have come before. Well, that and the tentacles.

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