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If it actually was, now that would have been a twist.

Impressions:

Despite Yunoha only actually being in the episode for about 3 minutes, it was centered around her frog. Andy making up stories about it, Amata and Zess getting scared of it resulting in her clinging to his floating crotch and the usual Mikono misunderstandings, etc. Amata wasn’t bright enough to figure out that her element was invisibility either, at which point he immediately got his usual wing-boner. Puberty’s hitting that kid like a freight train. It wasn’t the most eventful or interesting of episodes unless you count the now-usual bits about Mikono getting into a jealous huff before forgiving them 5 minutes later as interesting. At least it looks like it’ll actually be a Zess episode next week. Maybe they can finally reach a level of mutual rivalry or something.

So I guess this Character of the Week was handled a little better than Shrade’s episode, but even for this show, it was pretty cheap to just throw her in as the deus ex machina for beating the enemy’s new gimmick. The episodic format with new characters/elements it seems to be settling into is fine as long as it stays mainly focused on the core cast, which it did. The problem this week was just that the core cast did little more than rehash the same things they’ve been doing for the last few episodes. At least it did show Zess starting to break down in battle and Mikono realizing it which I assume will be the impetus for whatever their Friendship Event/Girl on Girl on Wingboy combination attack will be next week… hopefully. Still, entirely too much of the start was consumed by Andy complaining about not getting any action and the bit about them believing the frog was haunted went on about 10 minutes longer than it should have. 

Preview:

Let’s take another swing at a Zessica episode, eh?