天下制覇

 

Does he realize how unsanitary that is?

Impressions:

Ceci lost quite a few points this week with her temper tantrum and breakdown over having to defend a clearly guilty psycho. There’s a lot of ways they could have shown her being uncomfortable or unaccepting of it that don’t involve crying petulantly about this horribly unfair situation that she had to know was going to happen. The supposed advancement of the central plot could have been handled a lot better too. They got as far as “something’s funny here” relatively normally, but then antagonist du jour went straight from that into full villanous monologue mode to explain the entire affair.

There were also some tweaks to the magical side of things that I’m not sure I like. Brain magic opens a can of worms in a show like this that simply throwing fireballs or making magical robots doesn’t. Then again, while in a regular story it’d be foreshadowing about it happening to someone else more important, in Japanese media, it may very well be utterly forgotten and never come up ever again, which is probably worse. Weird Food Woman having the devil eye that sends antagonists into a panic, dropping their hostage just to immediately come back and try to fight half a dozen mages (including the one he just ran away from) was also a moment where things fell apart more than a little.

Next Episode:

This is just easier for this show.