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Why are they still fighting those?

Impressions:

I admit to often not paying as much attention to shows as I probably should, but I was pretty sure we had finished off with the sub-job-job squad last week, and certainly did not need to spend a bloody third of the episode on a single one of them, particularly not ending with the ‘hilarious’ joke of “sword in the butt!” They skipped the OP too, so somewhere in there, you’ve got to think that somebody fought for the extra minute and a half in the episode just so they had enough time to play poohsticks. And they made it painfully obvious that this ‘arc’ has been entirely about trying to reset the bell on the job squad when at the halfway point, they all got new transformations which they used to… have a couple stills and then vanish from the episode. Mission accomplished, team!

So I guess we come to the meat of the episode, another Ryuko vs Satsuki fight. The first one was easily the height of the show to date, so does this one measure up? In a word, no. In multple words, I’d just find a way to insult the show’s mother and still say no. At one point, the shouting got so bad that they just turned the bad loop of swordclashes into blobs so there wasn’t any threat of the ‘action’ distracting from the yelling. There was a 40 secondish span with music lasers and running along the tower that was quite impressively animated, but by the time they got there, I had already rolled my eyes at the yelling sequence and we were only a few seconds from a speedline and still-tastic disappointing end to the fight before everyone wandered off again, status quo successfully restored but with new costumes for most. Twice the figures to sell!

I think I have a sarcasm problem today.

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