天下制覇

  

Angsty scenes should probably have fewer naked afro guys in the background.

Impressions:

Fairly lackluster and unexpected end to things. Tina was never really that menacing, what with being disarmed by a fairly regular civilian in her very first fight and only beating anybody off-screen, and I’m sure everyone appreciates Enju blushing even while supposedly on death’s door. Aaaand like many a Japanese thing, the OP already shows her joining the orphanage for wayward infested girls that they call a business, so I guess the main grace of the melodramatic end of the arc is that at least they didn’t go all out on the melodrama or the jam. They also had the one random girl get shot in the head in a past episode if I remember right, so they probably need to recalibrate their jam-o-meter at some point or at least start getting a little more visceral and less… jammy.

Anyway, like the rest of this arc, not a whole lot happened and even less through the first half which was just reaffirming for the umpteenth time his drive or whatever and then having a training/exposition bit in the holodeck. Call me when there’s real evil Abraham Lincoln. As also usual, there was a little okayish kung-fu fighting (apparently now he can fly), and Captain Teeth showed up to continue channeling Symphogear’s Ver in his role as Gun-Haver, but the fight itself was mostly against remote control bowling balls and nagging phonecalls. Apparently they can rebuild half a person in this world, but can’t spring for a hands-free headset.

Hopefully they’ll pick up the pace again now, but I’m not holding my breath. The first arc was full of a lot of pissy bits and inane declarations, but it was easier to ignore the piss when there were a billion things going on. I think it’s the James Bond principle. Or maybe Borne. Either way, slowing things down, piling on the characters with little connection or point, and swimming through the piss instead of skimming along on top of it it is a really disgusting metaphor and what I hope this gets back to.