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This episode went a lot of weird places.

Inou’s second episode was about a love letter and involved basically no super powers at all. Just… love letter crap. Why? It has squandered its chances.

Impressions:

Yeesh. Where to start? Bipolar’s definitely the word of the day. Both the intro/OP and Elvis’s stuff in general are so overblown and melodramatic, and then it’s back to comical adventure time with Afro Cowboy and Demon Girlfriend, complete with pratfalls, goop, and really weirdly overanimated dancing. And speaking of the dancing, what exactly was that? It’s not really clear exactly what Amira’s personality is supposed to be. Absurdly naive deadpan alien to energetic prancing pixie in seconds, and back again. And no, alcohol doesn’t cover that. Even if it did, she sobered up instantly after stripping half her clothes off and cannonballing into a lake. Then has an empathic heart to heart with a horse and the bloody horse of all bloody things is the one with the strong moral compass that brings them back together. Christ. She and the horse even share a meaningful look as they flee.

I still enjoyed the episode a lot more than pretty much everything else I watched this week, but there are certainly some tone and characterization issues it needs to be figuring out. They could have also done a better job selling that the tail was a big deal and/or that killing her would get rid of it, because while I don’t have any problems with him being an underhanded coward, getting her drunk to create an opening to off her, I wasn’t sure how that would result in a tailectomy. I’d have also much rather seen him have a crisis of conscience after selling her out that the goddamned horse. Good god. What were they thinking with that one?