天下制覇

Why are all the characters of the week in this season shrieking idiots?

Impressions:

At this point, I think I'm just in it for the hope of another over the top super animated sequence at the end. Lord knows it's not the story. This week's was a hodge podge of nonsense, haphazardly thrown together without rhyme or reason. Here's some new girls, one of them shrieking desperately about her brain being stolen, juxtaposed with a few just doing slapstick. Because of course we'd throw that together. The protagonists pick them up, dump them off at an inn, and then, apropos of nothing, it suddenly becomes an episode about Pecorine and Kyaru's touching friendship for literally one scene. These two have basically nothing to do with anything at all in the rest of the episode, but by god, are we going to crank the sparkles and drama music up to maximum for this one scene out of nowhere before pitching them back into the bin because it's time to do the same for the resident golem. You can tell it's emotional by how oversaturated the visuals get out of completely nowhere.

By the time we finally get back to the characters of the week, it's to show that their bear stick is haunted, and the monster now revealed, proceeds to giggle and float. Doesn't attack even once, unless you count inducing tearful weepy flashbacks in characters incapable of three syllable words or a coherent thought, which in itself is kind of an achievement, I guess. It does split after being attacked once, but not to worry, because attacking it a second time does the trick, no muss, no fuss. Boy, what an exciting encounter that was, so it's back to loud schtick in this very cohesive, very sensical episode.