Phantom World #03 — Memory Write Failure
January 20th, 2016
At least it was woefully nonsensical.
Impressions:
I feel like this episode was put together by crazy people with no regard to logic. There's some phantoms challenging people on a bridge… that seems familiar but I'm sure is nothing, and after getting kicked once… literally just once… they retreat to… physically train the people who do no physical activity at all, then decide instead to copy her memories for… I have no idea why, so they go on a date, until they bump heads, which was all that was needed to enter the mindscape all along, allowing him to reveal to her that the two phantoms who claimed to already know her already knew her, which is enough to thrust them all into the flashback dimension. Afterward, thanks to her memory, he gained the ability to jump 50 feet in the air before and without realizing that having her memories somehow gave him all of her powers, enabling him to hit two people with one punch. Did the writers have a stroke while they were putting together this episode? Did the director? Did I? Does anybody else smell burnt toast!?
Anywho, at least they're keeping up the animation with the fights, although it'd be nice if the lunacy of the writing wasn't seeping into the direction as much. My eyes could not have rolled hard enough when after that one kick, everyone sat around and waited patiently for Doofus to whip out his little sketch book and explain what he was doing. There was also that little girl they introduced at the start of the episode who you'd have thought would have had something to do with events unfolding, but no, apparently not. She's just, you know, there. But at least I'm talking about what it did instead of how it sat around on its ass and wasted 20 minutes. It might be nice if it was doing things that made an iota of sense though.
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Made no sense whatsoever, but the sudden change in Mai and Stupidhair relationship felt soooo forced and out of place.