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Yeah. Those totally fit in with the rest of the episode.

Impressions:

This episode began with a flashback to Ai’s mother sitting with her on a roof talking to her about heaven and all I could think was "Damn, show. You convinced me that you were pretentious at least forty minutes worth of episode ago. Don’t keep putting yourself out for my benefit." Then Hamham kicked Ai off a bridge, which bizarrely enough, seemed to be the trigger for things to actually finally sort of get moving in directions at least primarily character driven instead of simply Hamham’s lingual diarhea. Not that that stopped him really either. At least his death scene ED thing was nicely enough done and I think where a lot of the budget probably went for this episode. Also explained why he doesn’t feature much in the OP, for that matter.

And don’t get me wrong here, the reveal about Hamham being her dad was still as drawn out as it was overdue and the gang of mountain crazies was just kind of bizarre. If not for a quick flashover of the rest and being punching bags for Ai’s Super Squad, I don’t even know why there was more than the one guy. The rest of them just stood in the corner iwth their arms crossed while the head guy was crazy for crazy’s sake, covering the entire range there. I’d be more annoyed with how flimsy he was, but he added some badly needed "crap happening" to the show and proved somewhat resistant to its usual modus operandi of "talk everyone to death" and needed to be hit with sticks, although I am a little confused about the physics of Scar throwing a guy and him both bouncing off a window and breaking it at the same time.

Perhaps now that Hamham buried, things’ll move a bit more since the first two episodes were about 80% him philosophizing at Ai. Or maybe she’ll just find new people to talk her ears off.

Next Episode:

That blue haired guy, apparently.