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Most exciting part of the episode.

AKA Kirio Fanclub. Just three more of these to go.

Impressions:

I think the animators might've been a bit bored. The opening is full of surreality, visual flair, and general nonsense. And then the actual episode itself is 20 minutes of two girls doing manzai. Did they fire everybody who worked on the opening as soon as it was done? Very rarely, it seems to almost remember that other forms of comedy can exist, like when the dude goes for a kiss and sticks his tongue entirely out like a frog, but it's not even clear to me that the animators realized that could be funny. You can tell when they think a joke has been made by the characters overreacting, but that had a deadpan internal narration about how great friendship was running over the whole thing. So it wasn't a joke? It was girl power? If you say so.

There's only so much standup I can take, even when it tries to go for non-sequiturs. You should do something memorable. Okay, I'll throw up on him. Wait, is that a monkey? Maybe I'm telling it wrong and the joke needs to last two minutes for it to be funny, but it was also one of the few sequences that wasn't just them rambling about how to get attention from boys. Boys who they run into. And flirt with them. While the two girls stare awkwardly like deer in headlights. Again, is the awkwardness meant to be a joke? Because the happy drama music is playing over it, and I see how it acts when it thinks it's being funny, so I'm inclined to say no. I think I'm fine passing on teenage girls wibbling about their feelings for boys. At least YA novels have the grace to also have them fight the evil empire or vampires as they do so.