天下制覇

And yet, the spoon trumps a gun somehow.

Impressions:

Much better than last week. Really ridiculous at times, the first half was about 33% montaged of Misaka(s) running around with barely related voice over, and I think JCStaff’s artists spontaneously forgot how to draw Kuroko at times, but enough action to balance things out a little bit. They certainly could have handled most of the plot and Awaki better. I did ‘appreciate’ the reveal at the start of Awaki’s weakness after the fact. Wouldn’t that have been better placed… I don’t know… beforehand? And like every one of the science side arcs, it’s about more power(s), which is totally different from the last time when it was about more power or the time before that when it was about more power. I did get a laugh out of how the first thing that they focused on when Awaki started giving her generic "now I’ve got you trapped, time to reveal all the details of my evil plan" speech was a painting of a windmill. Superhuman powers! WINDMILLS!

The silliness of the episode made it pretty fun though. Kuroko grabs a lamp? Awaki pulls a pistol. That I think was the highlight of the episode for me from the sheer ridiculousness of it. I’m not even sure it was a real gun since Kuroko leaped bolt upright as soon as the building was attacked by the glare filter. The rest of it wasn’t bad either. Building blowing up in a psychic storm? Here comes Touma leaping from floating chair to floating chair to save the day by punching air. Bad guy getting away? Nah. Here’s Accelerator on his magical tornado wings to rant crazily then punch everything before returning to his day job as a bed chameleon. They did a decent job with all three little action scenes, but it’s a shame that each of them lasted maybe 30 seconds tops. I guess they needed extra time to animate the entire sequence of Misaka getting dressed. Way to keep your priorities straight, JCStaff.

And just FYI, Forte’s going to be a little delayed today. I have a meeting for a project worth a third of my grade in one class that kind of conflicts with Chaos’s insane ramblings.

Preview:

Pimpin’ ain’t easy for Tsuchi.