天下制覇

Oh good, we needed antagonists like that.

Impressions:

Oh boy, angst time. I say that like it’s ever not been angst time as far as Shu is concerned. He’s taken it up to the next level though, hallucinating that people are diseased, screaming at them and calling them monsters, and then clutching his knees and running off by himself to cry. And have flashbacks about Inori some mysterious pink-haired girl from the past. On the upside, that meant that much of the second half was completely Shu-less. On the downside, it didn’t get any less stupid than usual. Clownface finally actually used his foreknowledge of everything about Gai to do something. Not plant a bomb or anything, but let him into the giant plane, lock the doors, and then crash it into his own base. Sigh. Then he makes the widget that they just brought into the baddy lair go berserk, begin ‘singing’, and the disease goes crazy all over Japan while random characters, some of which haven’t even been introduced at all, go "Just as planned."

But wait, there’s more. We still have our other new characters for the week besides the ones looking out over the city, about half a step away from swirling wine and cackling like Dracula. GC continues to defy all logic and brings out a new pair of antagonists who can’t keep their hands off each other. GC’s twist on it? The guy’s some old soldier boffing a middle-aged scientist. This also pisses off Daryl for some reason, but I’ve long since stopped trying to pay attention to who is supposed to be related to who. Hell, when they showed the bomber that they made a huge deal out of breaking out for his super-weapon and half the cast instantly wanted to kill him, my reaction was "Oh yeah, that guy existed. What ever happened to him?" I’m not even sure what their point was. All they did was make out and then gape in surprise when the thingy started ‘singing.’

And then there’s this shot. A slap apparently so hard that it actually physically broke all the characters involved.