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Oh god yes, I love recap.

Impressions:

This episode was singular in its purpose. Its stupid, awful, idiotic purpose. "Catch Akko up on everything that the audience already knows." About Ursula being Chariot, about Croix being evil, about magic being, uh… some handwavey thing about magic being not magically magic enough because of magic, and, uh… that's about it. They had to fit in a montage of flashbacks about all the 'touching' moments between Ursula and Akko, but that just showed how identical each one was. And of course, Akko threw a tantrum about it, like she always does. I guess there was also increased focus on the soccer thing to make sure even the slowest kids in the room understood what was going on with that, but it's so incredibly dumb and nonsensical that it's amazing they're still going with it completely straight, but I suppose it's probably too late to change things now.

But what else is there to say about an episode that was essentially recap for the slowest, most oblivious member of the cast? It sure… spent 20 minutes reviewing everything that we already knew with as little effort as possible? Oh, I'm sure there was probably something marginally new somewhere in the endless torrent of exposition spewed out, but I'm sure they'll repeat it at least three more times if they decide it actually is important or if it was just fluff.