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I think you overshot that one, show. You’re not nearly ‘hardcore’ enough for mass child murder by train.

I did glance through Milky Holmes’s second episode. Somehow, it managed to be about six more minutes of the two new characters just walking around while giving the off-screen Milky Holmes a vigorous tongue bath over how great they are. Feh. Feh! Oh, and Prisma Illya was 5 minutes of Luvia/Rin squabbling then 17 minutes establishing that the rival girl is Illya’s rival, a conclusion one could have only otherwise reached by watching the OP for about 15 seconds. That’s enough of that.

Impressions:

This show really needs to start drilling down on the characters in a bit more meaningful fashion and a bit less in these tiny little compartmentalized bits that if you sneezed, you’d miss entirely. As it is though, they barely interact, so things like vine-girl turning on ice-girl to give fire-girl a chance (I need to learn character names eventually), it’s kind of out of nowhere. I actually sort of like those parts. The one guy in charge of handling them is doing a decent job showing that they’re mostly barely holding it together and would be good setup to the inevitable rivalry against eviler ones who are all about wanton slaughter with a "We’re not like you!" type of rivalry or whatever. Or maybe it’s just wishful thinking. And give the weekly lectures on daemonia a break for that matter. And ye lords, we barely even knew the plant girl and what we did know was that she was jealous, insecure, and mostly just a bitch. I think they showed a flashback to her bloody body at least three times this episode alone. Are we trying to make this into a drinking game?

There’s really only two ways that an episode like this could have gone. Either stopping them from killing the guy shows that the monster-people can get better and gives purpose to this endless angsting over killing, or ends in even worse disaster, thus pushing her to finally deal with being all killy. Well, besides the unspoken third option of do nothing for 20 minutes. Unfortunately, they seemed to want to combine all three of these so it was a little scattered, and really no closer to getting anywhere since he was begging alternatively to be saved and killed. I also kind of can’t help but think that with Japan’s traditional dragged out to hell scene that if anybody was run over by a train after standing on the tracks for nearly five minutes, it’s probably their own fault.