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Oh boy. No animation, and a lie for a hook.

Impressions:

The opening seconds of this are a bunch of bloody corpses of girls and sadistic grinning, so the advertisement blurb that those things were going to be a twist seems a bit idiotic. And yet, those opening 15 seconds or so were at complete odds with 100% of the episode, all I'm left with is annoyance. What would follow after that had absolutely nothing to do with that, nor showed any movement towards that, or any goddamned interesting thing at all. It's like they realized how insipid and bland the rest of the episode was and jammed that in at the start just to assure people that something would happen eventually. Not this week though!

What would follow, is a godawful introductory sequence explaining the cutesy cell phone game. If you want to be dark and twisted, then be dark and twisted. Strangle someone. Burn a house down. Cut an ear off. Gouge an eye out. Being coy is just annoying, and leading off with hints of blood and violence before diving headlong into insecure girls insipidly smiling, doing their bestest, friendship, "magic girls are so cool" yada yada only serves to irritate me severely with your unfulfilled promises. They don't even do any goddamned magical girl things. They don't do anything at all but sit around and talk about their idiotic feelings and how cool each other is.