天下制覇

  

Now who’ll rape people?

Impressions:

Nobody got raped or molested this week and it was all actually rather kind of subdued, which made a lot of little writing problems stand out all the more since they weren’t overshadowed by any bombastic events. The big one was the collective shaming and hatred of Ange for getting the rapist and sexual abuser of the group killed, but honestly, what the hell were they expecting sending out of someone with minimal training who has done nothing but fight against their group? You had her sitting in with kindergarteners last week, guys. I think I’d have preferred it if she had simply shot Rapey down herself, or hell, actually made Rapey do something to show some character trait beyond raping that would actually sell people being upset about her death, because all we saw her do was molest people and then get a large chunk of her squad killed in what was supposedly not even that major a battle. And then her successor would have done even worse against a single dragon except that a third of the group was already dead.

They also continue to bounce back and forth between Ange being the special princess wonder child who gets special treatment, literally everyone’s attention, and a special-but-we’ll-pretend-unconvincingly-that-it’s-not bot, and dehumanizing her cause she’s just a regular muggle like everyone else. Her suicide schtick would have worked a lot better if it was portrayed more pyrrhic and less pathetic. Less pee too as long as I’m alliterating. The hair cutting scene was cliche, but expected. Still rang rather hollow just after bawling about how much she hated killing. They could have at least gone with the similarly cliche “Angelise is already dead,” which would have been vastly preferable.

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