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You’re not the boss of me.

Impressions:

Well, the opening minute was certainly a little more like I wanted to see, but I still think they’re missing the mark a bit, especially in the first half which was still mostly in Insipid Mode, and especially basically every time the brunette and… lighter brunette were talking. They existed for basically no reason whatsoever except for exposition and exposit they did. All of the place. In a steamy disgusting mess not related at all to the other two going through their own little episodes. We need less of that and more of the bits where they just let the actions speak for themselves, like the bit where they were making noise and ambushing the zombie to save Crazy Head without feeling the need to explain it all.

Speaking of which, this episode badly needed to focus on Shovel Girl more. From the way her parts bookended the episode and the CM break, it was clearly about her, but she had only about three or four minutes focused on her, and that was mostly in montages. Granted, better used montages than usual, if a bit on the nose, but they missed a good opportunity to really tie that shovel to her as her anchor for security or something instead of just something that happened to be close at hand and now by the laws of anime, after using it once, she’s now bound to it forever. 

Also, they’re really not being subtle with Purple. There’s an elephant in the room, or not in the room, as it were, that hopefully they’re not going to be stringing out until the end of the show

Next Episode:

I can’t even see what’s going on.