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That would be more exciting if either actually did anything.

Impressions:

Fantastic. Half the bloody episode of Ayumu feeling sorry for himself and refusing to wake up. Just what I was hoping for. I’m like the bloody nosferatu when it comes to feeding on pure undistilled whiny angst. Can’t get enough of the stuff. Why can’t every show just be a bunch of characters whining and feeling too sorry for themselves to do anything? That would be fantabulous!

Elsewhere, it turns out that once a vampire drinks Eu’s blood, if they play music, it kills monsters. But only when dressed up as a maid with the entire vampire ninja maid orchestra backing her. So off she goes to play the violin at an entire squadron of sky whales while Mael whips out the triangle. Meanwhile, Ayumu and Haruna need to go through a double transformation so that… Ayumu can punch him lecture him until Eu just suddenly up and changes her mind and kills him. At which point he asks to be reincarnated as a penguin. 

God. This show is trying so hard to be serious while pulling crap like maid vampire ninja orchestras fighting sky whales with the power of music that it’s physically causing me pain. I still have no idea why Eu didn’t want to kill him to the point where she would endanger entire city’s worth of people, or why Ayumu yelling that Zv1 didn’t understand her made her finally decide it was worth killing him instead of letting said millions of people die. She was apparently ready and willing to sacrifice the city for… whatever her morals were… right up until Ayumu’s big ol’ "you don’t get my girl" speech. Ah, the power of horrible writing. Hell, they didn’t even do anything with the army of maid vampire ninjas. Not that an army of maid vampire ninjas needs to justify its existence, but I expect more than "Look, a giant monster! Oh, it’s gone." with only the most tenuous of connections to what the characters that matter are doing. It basically amounted to nothing more than "Here’s a picture of some maids with violins. We can’t justify it, but it doesn’t matter anyway. Okay, bye." I’ve seen eyecatches that were better integrated into the story than that.

And it’s off to the hot springs next week. Well, at least it ends by going back to comedy, the arena in which where it didn’t blow. That’s something to look forward to… I suppose. It can’t be any worse than this godawful arc, can it? By the way. What ever happened to Kyouko, eh writers?

FYI, while Teletama, the primary broadcaster, has episode 12 scheduled for next week, episode 11 and 12 are going to be aired together on Tokyo MX and MIE TV tomorrow to put those stations back on their normal pre-tsunami schedules. So basically, the last episode’s due out tomorrow. In semi-related news, Kaiji, X-Men, Ring and C have all had the initial premiere dates listed in the season preview confirmed finally. Links have been updated, babies kissed, etc.

Also, Dragon Crisis may be (probably will be) delayed an hour or two today depending on how quickly I can get to it. I have a critical medical procedure that needs to be dealt with in about an hour. Dental cleaning… not to be taken lightly. I could probably write the bloody post without even watching the episode though. Now that’s a dangerous temptation.