Akiba Maid War #11 — BFFs 4 Eva
December 15th, 2022
Best friends forever forever.
Impressions:
Getting pretty difficult to call this black humor when I can list out literally all the gags in the episode in a single sentence. There was the elevator closing bit, and the kangaroo maid getting shot. The rest was the same melodramatic nonsense, which hasn't gotten any less nonsensical. Choose, Ranko, between your friends and home, and the murderous traitor who is trying to kill them and killed your mentor, scarring you for life. But I said she was my BFF twenty years ago! That's not something you can just go back on. You'd think after breaking this bond, they'd stop screaming about how one person must be forever bound by it, but nope. This is what the entire thing has to turn on. No real reason for it to even exist either. It's not like they went through blood and fire together. They just… worked together, until one turn megalomaniacal.
And, of course, the ending. Ranko's probably dead, because at this point, it's all drama, but I'm not sure how that helps Nagomi or the story here. Had it happened a month ago, we certainly could've done a whole coming of age and/or revenge for her mentor arc, but we're at the end of the show here. Whatever they do is going to be speedrun. Or they just back out of it and it was all faked. Hell, maybe she's just extra dramatic. I'm honestly not totally counting that out either given the way the writing's gone recently.
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Anonymous 
Joshua
This show was so irony poisoned prior to this last batch of episodes, that these attempts to try to inject some sentimentality into the proceedings come off as incredibly forced and insincere. In fact, whatever cloying message that’s going to come from this series in the finale is probably going to make what came before it look *that* much worse by comparison. A consequence of relying so much on that self-insulating humor as their main drive for watching “wacky Japanese maids doing wacky things and killing people but it’s all ironic don’t you get it yet?”
It’s less “dark humor” and instead full of that horrible excuse for “comedy” that you see in Western media from Rick & Morty to the MCU. Just this glib aura of smugness that repelled me from watching them.