天下制覇

These things aren’t even exactly Lost if people are making bikinis out of them.

Impressions:

A fairly underwhelming episode. This show really needs to ditch these clown side characters… and Ryuuji for that matter. I think the award for clumsy foreshadowing goes to them bringing up Marga’s necklace, saying it’s a protective charm, then going "dunno if it’s a Lost Precious" about four minutes before it starts glowing out of nowhere and saves her. It was also really disappointing to see them break out the stock footage and super special fusion dance special attack to one-shot the sword. They weren’t even supposed to destroy the bloody thing. Doofuses. The fight was okay, I guess, but it’s still relying entirely too much on people standing stock still and shooting beams of random elements or CG butterflies at each other. That’s also not helped when two of the four beamers are shooting ice.

They undermined anything interesting going on with George by making the sword a Cursed Precious which, get this, is cursed, so as soon as the dragons showed themselves, it just went berserk and once it was destroyed, he was back to his mellow idiotic self. Not like it even makes sense. He’s known these people for approximately 24 hours. So shocking! Who cares if you’ve spent your entire life believing something. That girl has large breasts. I’m glad we spent so much focus on him these last two weeks. The hostage scene in the church was also only tenuously linked to Ice Rage being cursed at best and came off as at the time as an incredibly inane fabrication. Handwaving after the fact doesn’t help. Ryuuji could also stand to look less traumatized by being kissed (off-screen at that) by attractive women. Man… once again, this show would be so much better if they gave Eriko the knife and forced Ryuuji to throw butterflies… or forced him off a cliff into the maw of a Lost Precious shark.

Preview:

Handcuffs, wolfgirls, and earrings. That could be sexy if Ryuuji had testicles.