天下制覇

And the teenage population is now down to Saya, Angsty Bishie, and Pretty Bishie.

Impressions:

Luckily, Saya manages to keep her secret safe and kill all but one student in the school. That’s what the show’s about, right? Last teenager standing? All the slaughter was particularly funny this time around because Saya kept having mental breakdowns in the middle of it, except that they forgot to show that happening before cutting away, so Saya would be fighting, then all of a sudden she’d just be gone for about 30 seconds while it leisurely ate another few people, then the show would finally remember to cut over to Saya clutching her head and screaming. It kept giving the illusion that Saya was taking timeouts from the battle to let it feed.

The end of the fight should have definitely also been done differently. It’s entirely too arbitrary how Saya just suddenly goes from being incompetent against it to slaughtering it, particularly with its genius tactic of jumping into the air and trying to crush her under its bulk. At least show that she was having trouble because she was in a confined space, or she went extra berserk in rage mode or something. At least the action did eat up nearly two thirds of the episode, but as always, it’s completely insubstantial because at this point, the bloody slaughter, even of named characters that have been around (and how) since episode 1, barely means anything since Saya has the emotional depth of a pork chop. That was even more obvious when Angsty Bishie confessed his undying love for her and her reaction could be best summed up as "Huh? Why?" We’re all wondering that, Saya. And then it tried to sell "I can’t remember my mother" as a cliffhanger? Seriously? Where the hell did that even come from?

Preview:

I don’t think that’s how you hold a sword.