天下制覇

Where would we be without you? Probably in a better show.

Impressions:

Unsurprisingly continuing the theme of imbecility, the day is won because the real problem was that Amane was feeling sorry for herself and needed a pep talk, because despite everything that's been show for the last 11 episodes, she was actually unloved by everybody. But that's hardly a surprise for this show. What absolutely is… is that this is the first episode of the show where close to 10 minutes weren't spent in the bath. Zero minutes were spent in the bath, unless you count a couple of very brief flashbacks. Why would you go back on one of the strongest points of the show at the last second? An eleventh hour effort to try to pretend like you're respectable? If so, then perhaps we could've found a better shape for our lesbians to bond than using a giant erect metal penis. Or maybe that was the right decision. About the only way they could have salvaged the show at this point was probably by killing them all and promising to never do anything like this ever again.

Or a giant orgy.

Either/or.

Final Thoughts:

I never had great expectations for this, but if it had actually used the structure it set up in the early episodes instead of being imprisoned by it, it could've at least been palatable along the same lines as StrikerS but with far less of a budget, fewer angry lesbians, and an antagonist situation that made an iota more sense. Too bad the sucked even greater monkey balls. Every two episode arc was identical to every other one, and they were all about 1.5 episodes too long for the actual content.

All the character 'development' was insipid, superficial, nonsensical, and didn't even come together at the end in any way, not even friendship power as everyone was booted off so that the halfwit in the crystal could have some angst pulled out of absolutely nowhere that was contrary to 100% of everything done with her to date. Might as well have said she has a crippling fear of sock monkeys. It also didn't have the budget or the direction to do well as eyecandy either, even with half of most episodes being consumed by unanimated bathing routines where half the screen didn't need to be drawn at all because it was covered in steam. And another third of the episode also went unanimated because it was talking heads jabbering on like howler monkeys.