天下制覇

  

Apply duck directly to head.

Impressions:

When the sponsors screen was a montage of Yachiyo faffing about, my brain reflexively recoiled. She and Satou’s crap was done to death in the previous season, and was not at all interesting at all to begin with. I guess their relationship moving forward half an inch after a mere eighty seven years of holding pattern is kind of something, but it’s far too little and far too late for me to feel anything but annoyance at their bits. If it even did move at all. She said “Gee, it’d sure be nice if we spent lots of time together, dawg,” so he spontaneously hugged her and said “Me too, dawg.” Then she collapsed in shock and went “Yeah, dawg.” It’s not exactly Romeo and Juliet.

I’d much rather have had more of Yamada’s bits about trying to get petted, and even that was fairly lacking. As a serial killer living in their ceiling, at minimum, you’d expect Yamada to surreptitiously feed him psychotropic mushrooms, or put together some kind of Rube Goldberg contraption cutting off his hand so she can pet herself with it. Strapping a duck to the head and then working hard is not the Yamada I know and in the old series would have earned a clawing at best.

Next Episode:

At least Inami’s been minimal.