天下制覇

Yes, yes. Get it out of your system.

Impressions:

Good first half, turbulent and fairly nonsensical second. They did a good job with the direction of Eu vs Kyouko for being a fairly nonsensical battle of Eu saying "Die" over and over again and Kyouko… dropping dead. It was better than the beam spam exploding around Eu at any rate. They really should have put some of the animation budget they sank in there into the combination attack or Ayumu’s followup instead of making well animated generic explosions and dust clouds. I’m not sure why Eu needed the frilly pink costume change, but we can go with it. I was expecting a lot better from the team up attack though, especially given what followed. Kyouko deserved a lot better than to have Ayumu just suddenly break her sword out of nowhere and be reduced to little more than cowering and begging for her life, especially after bursting her eardrums. He didn’t even need to power up to super cute for that. We’ll also hold all jokes about the poor visual direction of Ayumu chopping off her legs to a minimum. Honestly, how can you show a torrent of blood shooting out from a girl’s crotch and not expect snarky comments?

As I said though, the second half got… weird, to put it mildly. Weird and extremely low budget for that matter. Haruna’s boss shows up and explains that Kyouko’s another one of her students just before an evil black death cloud that’s been living inside her takes her over and flies them off somewhere else. That doesn’t really answer any of my questions and just makes everything even more confused. Adding mind-control evil clouds has never made anything better. Ever. I guess at least they have some new boss to fight instead of sky whales, or maybe go to the beach. I put even odds on both.