天下制覇

This place is creepily empty.

Impressions:

My patience with this show is rapidly running thin. The main difference from last week is that the incomprehensible bloody sequence in a totally different tone and style happened in the middle of the episode rather than the end. I suppose they also did leave the room for a bit to chase a bug around, which happened to just be some random brownie that had gotten into the soot, so that's a step up from having spent the whole thing sitting around a kitchenette set, munching on cake. At the same time though, they spent the whole thing explaining to each other how their clothing is magic, or how they can use magic, and what magic they can use, or how one of them has a magic sword, but another has a magic umbrella. Basically, a mix of tutorials and explanations for the blind. And then they sat around their kitchenette set to munch on cake.

So an improvement over the first episode, but only a slight one, and it seems like the only interesting part of the episode is going to continue to be something they just alude to at random, not an indication at the end of last week that we had shifted gears and were actually going to be getting serious. I have no idea why there are random bloody sequences of revolution in the middle of this otherwise absolutely banal thing, but unless the next episode jumps in hard to that, this is where we part ways. The girls are so incredibly flat and boring, there's no story to speak of, and the animation definitely ain't carrying anything.