天下制覇

Um. Ow?

FYI, I have jury duty next Thursday, so everything will likely be extremely late. At least by my standards. Or not. My last two times were: not going because I was told I didn’t need to report, and sitting in the waiting room for three hours before being excused. Hooray for the legal system. We’ll see. Also, thanks again, China. Maybe I’ll have learned some basic Mandarin by the end of the season just from repeated exposure.

Impressions:

Kind of a boring episode honestly right up until… yeah, that. The only thing the dynamic duo did at the start was sing a little song for the character CDs. That’s not ruining the festival at all. Are you even trying to be fakesy antagonists? And then they just wander off after a little futzing around that accomplished nothing. Elsewhere, Dr. Evil kills some SWAT offscreen. Humans have already been shown to be utterly ineffectual against the pudding monsters that the Gears rip through like butter, but I guess now that he’s killed some people directly and then shredded some baseball kids who were wandering around, he’s extra evil.

The big event (besides the big event) of the second half was probably Maria’s flashback, complete with swan song, blood pouring out orifaces, etc. Thanks for showing up Horie Yui. Maybe you can live on in someone’s arm. And speaking of arms… Yeah. Now that’s a cliffhanger. And one that won’t begin the next episode with a disappointing ad for character CDs. I have the feeling that having one ripped off will only make her mad. We haven’t seen the berserker side of her yet, and I’d love to see Hibiki mercilessly beat the hell out of something or three and this would be a great excuse and lead-in for it. Or maybe turn her into even more of a cyborg. As long as more violence is involved, I’m great with it.