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Where arms are bullets and bullets are useless.

Impressions:

I can’t say I’m thrilled with the way the ending to this arc went. It was certainly action packed and again, it’s really great that it’s keeping that up for an entire month while many an action shows can’t maintain that for a single episode, but it matched that this week with a truly staggering number of asspulls. The super injections and the super rail gun just luckily sitting there within walking distance to fight the ass-ugly CGI blob monster were the stars of that department. The best that I can say about them is at least the exposition/flashback was brief and to the point.

Even when they weren’t yanking things out of their ass, they telegraphed them so painfully ahead of time, ruining what could have been cool or badass reveals. I feel compelled to draw the comparison of the reveal of half-cyborg Taro and half-cyborg Subaru from StrikerS just for something done a whole hell of a lot better, not to mention not simply told to us a few minutes before. Similarly, with the virus injections. They were an asspull already, but it’s so easy to imagine how that could have been presented better, and since I feel like comparisons, Mushi-Uta would be this one’s.

It at least kept up the pace and wrapped most everything up in a bow (leaving aside the obviously not-dead drowned clown), defeating the villain, killing the uber monster, executing the infected little girl from last week, and then still found time to set up important character stuff for later with him lying about Enju’s death clock, any one of which is I think more ground than Mahouka has covered since it began. The execution part was another extremely overwrought scene that needed a lot better direction. Even just a George and Lennie kind of moment would have probably been preferable to her rambling on about Taro’s goodness and shining light. We get it, he’s cyborg Jesus. Give it a rest or crucify him already.