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Irony is that I don’t even like Nadesico.

Impressions:

Mio is just not a well written enough character to be able to carry an episode, especially since every time she gets focus for any length of time, the consistency of her writing goes out the bloody window. Apparently being around cats is enough to reduce her to a helpless mewling wreck now. Frankly, her gluttony was more emotionally touching since it didn’t send the bile churning around in my gullet. The episode was distracted enough every five minutes without them clumsily trying to shoehorn in some kind of meaningless romantic overtures on the Mio side of things. Suddenly pretending like Tarou’s wearing the pants in their relationship instead of her is strange and confusing.

Things also weren’t helped much this week either by the introduction of a new character replete with her own share of bad cliches, yet another Kirino and the president of the Mio Fan Club. Yeah, I’m shocked that the brand new character is a part of the brand new cult. Was that even supposed to be a twist? She got about 90 seconds of intro before GADZOOKS, she has a whip, mask with a giant M, and is ready to whip Tarou for being and/or not being Mio’s boyfriend. Whatever. I doubt we’ll ever see her again. I’m shocked enough that they threw in the 2D-phile storekeeper just for a hug pillow/Ruri Hoshino joke. Yuuno and Tarou seem to be the only characters this show is able to handle decently and consistently and one of them spent the last episode alternately running around without pants and humping a crossdresser.

Preview:

Mio vs Yuuno.