天下制覇

"I’m so troubled and unworthy"

Impressions:

Good god. I don’t even know where to begin with this episode. It’s like it was written by a committee of 6th graders, none of them having any idea what the others were writing at all, and unfortunately, didn’t really have any of the impressive action that other episodes did that make you forget how ridiculous any of it was. It tried to pass off people posing and being deep in its place, and let me tell you, it’s not working, IG. It’s worse that they treated Shuu standing up to Gai’s plan as if it were a bad thing. Let’s start with the worst part, Gai. Ye lords did they do a number of his character this week. They could have kept him a little interesting at least, but no. They had to give the whole "I know the burden of being a leader so much and I’m not worthy" speech without even a single overture that it was fake or he was manipulating Shuu.

And then there’s the attack on the satellite facility, which they knew was coming hours ahead of time, but decided it was best to just hang out and let happen. Then they revealed that the pen was a firing trigger for the satellite, raising all manner of questions and somehow, some stray bullets managed to knock the satellite out of orbit, sending it crashing onto Tokyo minutes later. At this point, Clownface, despite showing a reckless disregard for all human life until now, was convinced to let Gai ‘save’ the city by letting him use the pen and having one satellite shoot the other, so he wanders off and isn’t seen again for the rest of the episode. So now Gai is supposedly going to sacrifice himself as the target for the laser, so everybody retreats a safe distance of 10 feet away. We then reach my favorite part when Inori begins inexplicably floating above Shuu. She then draws out her own void somehow, which is apparently now a giant beam gun (that Gai already knew about) and Shuu uses it to blow up both satellites at once, which restores the television broadcast signal around the city and an upside down boy talks about something awakening.

I feel like I’m on crazy pills just trying to summarize it. Really, no amount of snarkiness or insulting could live up to just saying what happened. I… guess… it’s better than the slow pacing that usually plagues anime, but this… this is a mess.