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Yay, teamwork!

Impressions:

Speaking of needing another editing pass… This was probably the best episode of this show in its third iteration so far, but my god, did absolutely nothing make an iota of sense. The running theme the whole episode was "Yay, teamwork!" The other princess won because of teamwork. The bad princess's only weakness was teamwork. The queen's trump card was a reverse spirit bomb, giving a little bit of power to everybody so they could all gather around and stare menacingly. Then Touma finished things with a teamwork punch. It makes me think that there was a version of the script where the bad princess's massive army was all robots or mind controlled or something. Their teamwork isn't real teamwork, I guess. And then it turns out that it was all just a plan to lure Index out so some guy could steal her scroll-brain. Keep in mind that this girl spends 99% of her time sitting in a random apartment that pretty much anybody can just walk into. So yeah, the easiest way to get her was obviously to lure her halfway across the world and start a civil war. 

But the action was well-animated, and bizarrely for this series, we got something of a reprieve from recitation of overwrought powers for once. On the other hand, after the big long spiel about how ultimate her cubes were, all they ended up being in this fight were projectiles she could summon and toss around. Hell, people started cutting them up after a while, so they're not even that ultimate, now are they? I'm probably content to call this a final episode for me as far as Index is concerned. It may be looking like the best animated thing for the day, but I've totally lost track of the bloated cast and incomprehensible overall plot, even leaving aside the episode-to-episode nonsense in the writing. I'm out of things to say, and have no real desire to see this to its conclusion, especially knowing that it's unlikely to actually be one.

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