天下制覇

AKA sitting in a room talking for most of the episode.

Impressions:

While F/A put the action at the end and filled the rest with padding nonsense, this flipped the script and put the action at the start. Somewhat strange action at that, featuring one of them having something of a freakout about the mindless zombie monsters killing people. "How dare you monsters do monster things! Rrrrgh!" I thought perhaps that meant he was going to do something reckless and get himself killed… possibly because I really want some or all of these characters to messily die… but then things wrapped up without incident. And we then spent nearly eight straight minutes sitting in a room chatting while a wacky percussive beat played. Please, Japan. Stop this. Stop this now. What happened? Nothing. We sat around and talked, and the next 'challenge' was the cliffhanger for next week. Our effort to move from point A to B has maybe hit a snag. That definitely required eating up an entire episode.

I'm pretty sure that between the two of these 'action' shows, that means that Symphogear almost certainly continuing to phone it in with the plot and characters ends up the winner for the day, and I'm kind of disgusted by that. Would that I could send all the blathering between these to just one one hour show and have a flashy 3-4 minute eyecandy short instead.