天下制覇

I wonder about the Indexverse church sometimes.

Impressions:

Well, at least this is moving right along. I can’t say that the plot of "magical fleet safeguarding magical ritual to go do… something magical… also, we should probably save the enslaved nuns" is exactly the most compelling that Index has ever been, but it did a good job of spacing out the humor this week so that whenever it started to drag, a naked nun would suddenly pop up and jolt me back to attention. I do question how Touma can even function on a ship made of magic. I mean, they’ve got the stuff in place to nullify his power against it with the whole "rebuilds itself" routine, but you’d think they’d at least put a footnote in there somewhere. Or have made the ships not luminescent blue. I swear, after the first ten minutes, it felt like my eyes were trying to chew their way backwards through my brain.

I also got a few chuckles out of Orsola somehow managing to distinguish herself as one of the few intelligent characters in the show multiple times. Bluffing the guards was good (although then discussing your plans in front of them, not so good), and the elbow to the ribs to stop Touma from ‘freeing’ the sub-nuns was also amusing. Amakusa being reduced to a cheerleader squad for Itsuwa was also part interesting, part very very sad, mostly because she spent the whole episode carrying towels around until she was bulldozed by Touma. Entendre intended. Speaking of the sub-nuns, they’re now color coded for your convenience, also amusingly arbitrary, not that it matters since everybody is just shooting at everybody else while half of them look shocked about it. Unfortunately, random explosions were about all the action this week. The CG bomber ships were just… just awful. Touma also stroked an ice golem into submission. He’s apparently only comfortable punching little girls. Aren’t we all?

Preview:

I like how half the preview is different shots of Touma punching things off screen.