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This episode’s budget collapsed quickly.

Impressions:

It actually started pretty decently too. Sure, over-exposition like always. When you cut open the giant spiked rolly thing and find a creamy center inside, we don’t need to have it explained to us that that’s the core and it’s probably the vulnerable part, or after watching holes regenerate, people explaining that it’s regenerating. Pluuuuus the badly crowbarred in comic relief aaaaaand that besides rolling around, it/they only attacked twice I think, once to show off how badass ol’ whose his face is and once to kill some side characters. Aaaaand even that latter part had focus distracted off it by Fuzzy Hat have a mental breakdown in the middle of it for unrelated reasons. Maybe we should have put a little focus on them… or say… any focus. If you don’t care about them dying, show, I don’t see why I should either.

Okay, maybe it didn’t start all that decently at all, but the animation was better than it usually is, even if it’s still just things swatting against a large thing that ignores them until it’s dead, and they were keeping things at least somewhat tense, aside from the bad comic relief that they keep throwing in. At about 15 minutes in though, all that just utterly collapsed into a heap. An ugly, unanimated, power point lecture heap, spewing out exposition while they show the same 3-4 shots over and over and over again while Hibiki stares in confusion. Yet again. This is not how you tell a story. Especially not one so dull and trite as the angsty living weapon nonsense with now all of space and time and humanity being at stake because now it’s super ultra mega double dog serious.

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