天下制覇

These are the stupidest people.

I suppose I should mention the CCS OVA since I have a vague fondness for CLAMP for whatever reason. It was nothing but sentimental masturbation. Just squirming over existential insecurity for 20 minutes until not. There's no cards. No captoring. Just wallowing in light angst so they can overdramatize the smallest thing with pastel backgrounds and screen-filling smiles. So basically, indistinguishable from a thousand other "insecure girls go to school" things that have become a factory line production these days. 

Impressions:

Wow. They're not even pretending to try with this mini-arc that's supposed to be acting as the finale. Every character but Charlotte and Ange just kind of futzes away, a new overly antagonistic babysitter futzes in to do basically nothing but scowl and repeat how much she's babysitting them, and from there, it's just stretching the non-content as thing as it'll go. They could've started this episode at around the fourteen minute mark and not only would it have lost nothing, but could've at least partially obscured how most of the cast abruptly vanished into the mists.

But even that aside, the 'meat' of the episode was tremendously weak. Ange tries to escape with Charlotte, all smiles and handholding and rainbows and unicorns and vomit. But because of friendship yada yada, Charlotte sends off Ange on her own and pretends to be her pretending to be her… who was pretending to be her in the first place, and claims that Charlotte's dead. And this (seemingly) works, despite them all being fooled by the exact same thing about three minutes before. But wait, maybe the babysitter wasn't fooled and just doesn't care, or will use this anyway. Except that begs the question of why do goddamned any of it in the first place? All we have here this episode is padding and nonsense, with the stakes being raised being entirely offscreen and not directly related to any character or event that we've see thus far. Fantastic way to go into the finale.