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Couldn't we have skipped the snake arc entirely?

Impressions:

Episodes like this make me wonder if editors or storyboards even exist at all in the anime production process. The inexplicable multi-episode snake-conversation arc ends without fanfare or, well, resolution, five minutes into this episode, whereupon it drops everything entirely to do a very, very overlong introduction to its next arc where it gives out the reveal that the new character is the ex-girlfriend, then five minutes later, tries to use that same reveal as the cliffhanger to end the episode. Not feeling like a lot of care or attention went into the structure here, and the goofy music at the end was definitely contributing to that.

But at least this arc promises a murdering faceless boob ghost swinging a girder, getting kicked in the face. After 1.25 episodes spent rambling to a reticent snake, that's ten thousand steps in a better direction. Still seems like something where the intro to it should have been done in either about 1-2 minutes before the OP, or at least held the connection to the main characters as the teaser for at least the commercial break, but baby steps.

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