天下制覇

I miss the overanimated fights.

Impressions:

When the first words of this episode were "school festival," I made a noise probably more fitting to Frankenstein Meets Scooby Doo. To be fair, that could also partially be the pinched nerve in my neck. And they did kind of completely ignore it mostly after that, although that just pushes it off to another episode. The first half was still exceedingly dull though and only raised some questions about either how little his family must care about him to not investigate when he begins screaming in his room, or how often it must happen. Also, not really specific to this show, but Japan really needs to learn that there’s pornography on the internet. This "finding magazines under the bed" cliche is something from the bloody 80s that just refuses to die. Like zombie disco. I’m also a little confused how baldy’s hair grew back so quickly. Maybe it’s a wig.

Around the start of the second half, they jumped back on the "the emotionally stunted little girl has a crush on a chunk of balsa wood" train with a vengeance. I was going to compliment them for using it as mostly an excuse for some new jokes and giving Nibutani some non-abhorrent screentime not relating to torturing Dekamori while also ‘subtly’ showing the two males dancing around together in class, making it decisive why they have no interest in females. Alas, it had to ruin that by only lasting about 3 scenes before it tried to go back to the bad melodrama by tossing one of them off a roof. The heart of butterflies also came very close to drawing another unearthly groan out of me. The ridiculously corny camera spin that it ended on certainly did though.