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I barely remember when it was a good thing that this show made no bloody sense.

Impressions:

You know, I feel like all I need to do to mock this episode is to just summarize what happened. Like the last one, this continues the show’s downward spiral in the most bizarre directions, this time involving a guinea pig.

To begin with, we fast forward months into the future where… nothing’s happened. Sera was apparently attacked by someone offscreen. Glad we got to see that. Then Haruna accidentally orders a Stradivarius instead of spaghetti, whereupon we learn that Sera knows how to play the violin from her time in the vampire ninja orchestra. I THINK WE HAVE A FOCUS PROBLEM HERE, DEEN. Then there’s a cut to Ayumu running into the other zombie giving pet care advice to some random old woman while taking his pet guinea pig out for a walk. …Because guinea pigs apparently like the smell of death. I kid you not, that is what he says. Zombie v1.0 then cuts off Ayumu’s legs and threatens the rest before Mael shows up with a light saber and a whole cadre of other light saber wielding ninjas to chase him off so he can go to the zoo and watch the penguins sleep.

Skipping a little bit forward, Eu’s just standing around outside Ayumu’s house. Sera finds her, gets slashed in the back, and Zv1 finally gets Eu to go with him. About an hour later, Ayumu and Haruna head to his apartment where he invites them in for dinner, so of course they eat. Then the ninja cadre busts in, so Zv1 puts a bomb hat on Haruna’s head and leaves with Eu. Since they fail to disarm the bomb hat, Ayumu puts it on his head with seconds left, and jumps out the window. He’s then somehow teleported miles away and explodes.

Seriously? My brain tingles. And not in the good way. It looks like they’re really going with the whole "immortality is a curse" angle too, which makes even less sense since Eu’s first reaction to seeing Zv1 was to put a scythe into his chest. Maybe that’s like a love tap as far as zombies are concerned. Maybe they’re going some obtuse direction with there actually being a reason that Eu doesn’t want to kill him despite his wish to die, but given the writing these past couple episodes, I wouldn’t be shocked if the guinea pig turned out to be the evil mastermind pulling everybody’s strings all along.

Aside from the last episode in Kyouko’s arc, this show’s quality has been completely the opposite of how seriously it takes itself. I don’t even know what the hell it’s doing or why it’s doing it half the time. Wwhy did we need to skip forward months? Was there some point to giving Sera a violin? And Mael a light saber? And using a ‘cliffhanger’ of an immortal zombie suffering what appeared to be a relatively mundane bomb blast? Not three minutes prior, he was being lectured about how much it sucked to be COMPLETELY UNKILLABLE. I really can’t believe I’m saying this, but come on, Deen. You can be so much better than this. What the bloody hell are you doing?