天下制覇

Okay, not so shocking.

Impressions:

Okay, but are the protagonists going to literally ever leave their goddamned room again? You'd think the slapstick dude going there… twice… as well as the magical arsonist showing up and graffiti-ing the walls would be cause for at least something, but instead, it was nothing but the one kid assassin to finally do something for the first time since he was introduced about a month ago. Even "do something" is stretching it. Animating him moving is really hard, so have a couple stills. Is this going to be the big final fight to end the episode? Slapstick guy vs tertiary pointless imbecile?

But that's ignoring the pointless middle of the episode with the police menacingly shaking hands. I know that this has already been confirmed for a second cour after a break, but my god, why? The conspiracy around this symbol could not be any less interesting, and they've spent the last month pissing on about it, introducing a hojillion obnoxious and pointless side characters and not doing a damn thing with any of them. Par for the course for the Baccano/DRRRRRRRR dude, sure, but remember that one episode that was compact, fast paced, and killed like three characters in one go? We could've kept doing that instead of absolutely nothing.