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I think this episode might have had an agenda.

Rokka’s doing the same thing Symphogear just did. The MBS broadcast is off today and two episodes will be aired next week, pushing the first broadcast of the next episode to ‘tomorrow’ (~2 am my time at any rate). CR doesn’t seem to have gotten the message however. If they do manage to figure things out and not ‘simulcast’ it half a day ahead of the wrong channel’s broadcast and a week ahead of the right one’s, (they waited until almost the last minute, but delayed the ‘simulcast’ 24 hours, so now it’s half a day behind the broadcast. Time is a difficult concept, apparently.) I’ll get to it tomorrow morning.

Impressions:

There’s something a little disturbing about how how formally maladjusted protagonist can’t stop smiling now that his sister’s ‘dead.’ And of course she’s dead. Why wouldn’t they introduce a murderous little girl and his sister having magic powers and then pitch it out the window to move on to a new, happier life? And if you’re wondering why I’m still talking about last episode, it’s because this one was right back to particularly godawful padding, featuring a goddamned music video out of nowhere having nothing to do with anything. At least they’re hitting multiple very different brands of terrible to keep things fresh. How will it suck this week? Will it be hamfisted melodrama wrapped around a brick and thrown at the screen? Or will it be vapid filler to pad out the episode while our ‘protagonist’ continues to stand there and stare like a slackjawed mule? Flip a coin and let’s see what we get!

First half filler out of the way, we move on to the introduction of a ‘new’ character in the second half. I feel the need to qualify that because her two traits are that she’s overly dramatic, and she sings, so not new so much as an amalgamation of the two existing worthless side characters. So after the music video in the first half, our new character has a montage where she explains her backstory over an insert song, and then she sings again, followed by using the ED as an insert song. Perhaps next week they can do an episode all about how great Boss coffee is with help from Tommy Lee Jones. …That would be a marked improvement, wouldn’t it? 

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