天下制覇

I miss when this was about superheroes.

Impressions:

There was a real missed opportunity here to characterize her being treated by cultists with PTSD rather than being all goofy and silly about it. That'd have also been a good vector and excuse for her to shy away from going back to deal with the lunatic headmaster and save her friend. That'd have also strengthened the painfully obvious foreshadowed encounter/fight between the two of them. At the same time, him taking whatever the dude told him as unvarnished fact was also painfully stupid and there are much better ways that they could engender your standard misunderstanding conflict between them, especially with her whole speech about him being gone and her taking over all his dreams and music. Also, it's been like, a couple weeks it seems, and the crazy lunatic cultist, not to mention the entire cult, is just… letting her hang out homeless the next town over? …Okay.

I dunno, though. It was… all right. I feel like my standards are low given other stuff this season. The music stayed fine and with the long, long montage in the middle of it, that was clearly the focus. It's still another fairly generic hero origin story, and just like E-Soul's arc, is extremely light on the heroics. Cyan doing anything to show her hero side would've helped a lot here, even if it was hamhanded like singing to someone about to jump off a bridge. Like the third episode of Nice's arc where the heroic part was being human and inspirational. But she just busked. And was so good at busking because she's the most specialest girl that ever busked, that she became a hero. A hero that's indisginguishable from any random pop star. It's… not all that inspiring here, and has a lot of work left to do to get there despite being two episodes in.