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Kazuya, exactly how stupid are you?

Impressions:

It looks like this is going to be the arc where this series transforms from bad writing to outright aggressive stupidity. Victorique’s laid up with the flu and if the preview is any indication, is going to stay like that for the whole thing, so she’ll just be solving mysteries over the phone this time around, making my brain itch. Meanwhile, Kazuya is absolutely baffled when he finds a girl in a box, she runs away, and then is not in the box again later. What makes it even worse is that she’s just hiding about 15 feet away. Not in the box. Did he think that she was going to crawl back into it again? Or that after she ‘escaped,’ (the box wasn’t locked or anything) the people who assumably stuffed her in were going to just put her back and call it a day? Actually, given the level of intelligence in this show, I must admit that there is a distinct possibility of that.

Anyway, nothing too special or interesting here. Kazuya goes off on a little shopping trip and blunders into some mystery with street urchins disappearing and rich people/their servants pretending that they have no idea who he is with all the aplomb of Scooby Doo and the Harlem Globetrotters solving the mystery of King Tut in Egypt. I don’t even get the point of lying about things like that. They’re in a crowded building. Given how every single side-character seems to be enthralled by him being Asian, it should take about two minutes to find somebody who can confirm at least that part of his story. But hey, may as well toss in compulsive lying for no reason to ramp up the suspicion to moronic levels. Because rich people control everything and are eeeeeevil.

I did enjoy how Kazuya started shouting into the phone the moment Victorique touched it. Maybe the guy has some kind of phone-based telepathy that prevents him from using the other 99.99% of his brain. It would explain so much.

Preview:

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