天下制覇

All you can eat buffet this week.

Impressions:

After that sappy introductory bit, it wasn't a big surprise that Whose-His-Face got mulched, but I'm a little disappointed to see Whose-Her-Cleavage go, even if that scene would've been more effective had it not been quite so drawn out and telegraphed. She was growing on me… at least until this arc totally sidelined the main trio to be all about Mulch Boy, which this episode didn't really help either for that matter since her mulching came at the very end and her participation otherwise is about the same as any of those random trees people were hiding behind.

Also not great was the weird CGI at the most random points, nor the priness's dumbass "become a god" expositional rant. At least she's villain enough if she can keep this up, as opposed to the fanservice comedy vehicle she was all through her introductory bits. Animal Girl also seems past the point of any kind of protagonist turn, which makes me wonder what all that stuff was with her earlier. I guess we're just seeing that the inconsistency in the writing extends far past just within episodes but to the bigger picture too.

All of that said, this was another really solid, action-packed episode that kept up the action, blood, and gore while refocusing the main characters on antagonists who handed their butts to them in actual antagonistic fashion while personalizing the conflict… and explicitly explained that so that even the slowest in the room got the message. Of course, it then dashed any hopes for next week's episode by the cliffhanger being "And now, an extended flashback!" but I guess it's Japan's thing to piss all over anything and everything that they can with flashbacks instead of just moving the goddamned story and characters forward.