天下制覇

Because every show must have one.

Impressions:

I feel like I missed an entire episode somewhere in here. Leaving off in the middle of a fight last week and then jumping to the beach this week to then flash back to the end of said fight was bad enough… and it hurt to even write that, but since when was Izumi completely at home with magic and whatnot? She just sort of went from a nosy girl trying to find out about the student council to their generic human pet now that Haruka’s sort of abandoned that role. Speaking of pets, there are not enough words to express how happy I am that the cat did not rear its head, even if I have no idea why it didn’t. Wasn’t the whole point of going and getting it to make Taito stronger? And doesn’t he need to feed it every day? With pieces of himself? That seems like something that would at least be of note while trapped in a barrier fighting to become stronger. Also, wasn’t it only one or two episodes ago that Himea was bemoaning the fact that she could never safely leave the school?

Nothing particularly interesting this week, which, while an improvement from magical goddamned cats, is a little worrying given that there are only four episodes left and there are still antagonists that have been introduced as lurking around and then completely ignored ever since. This episode though, was just your generic training for the sake of training episode to make characters who haven’t even really fought anything but bugs since the second episode supposedly stronger by throwing chalk at them. And at a beach because you need to fulfill your quota for beach episodes. The training camp isn’t even over yet, so another episode for that and dealing with the continuing stupid melodrama and insecurity that Haruka brings with her wholly reliant on Taito stammering like an idiot. What fun!