天下制覇

Sadly, this matchup is way more even than it should be.

Impressions:

This week, on a very special Zettai Karen Children, the girls learn a valuable lesson about acceptance. Definitely not the best of episodes, though I guess it’s meant to ease us back into the whole ‘normals vs espers’ themes since apparently we’re going to be getting into the future war between PANDRA and humanity soon, which is absolutely delightful. There’s still some time before that gets into full swing (complete with time skip), but it’s definitely a treat to see that teenage Kaoru will be showing up. And if you’re wondering, yes, talking about the preview and the dolphin adventures along with teenage Kaoru certainly beats talking about this episode.

Basically, a very powerful prenatal esper went berserk when it sensed that its mother was scared of espers and buried all of them in a tunnel and prevented them from fully using their powers until the children taught a fetus to give people a chance. Yeah… a fetus. I’m not entirely certain my brain can fully comprehend the issues with posing an argument to an unborn child. Maybe this is some kind of prolife agenda, though I’m pretty sure that 9 months is a little past the appropriate time to consider that. The first part of the episode seemed a little more interesting, but I was having all sorts of stream problems, so I didn’t catch a ton of it. I saw enough to see Kyosuke cart PANDRA out to his foggy island retreat, complete with castle and amusement park. Yes, the evil organization has a giant ferris wheel in its base. The real question is: "Who was it built for? Mio or Muscle Okama?"

Not too much more to say. Minamoto tells them that anybody would be happy to have a child, even if it’s an esper and he’d love kids like them, and at the end, the girls proposition him for just that. Well, sort of. You kind of walked into that one, Minamoto. I wanted to see more of PANDRA’s wacky facilities personally. If Kyosuke thought that a ferris wheel was required for his esper paradise, Zeus only knows what else he’s supplying them with.

Preview:

Dolphins and prophecies.