天下制覇

Uh, okay?

Rounding out the delays for next week, the MBS Thursday broadcast of this is off next week, but the Tokyo MX broadcast on Sundays is continuing right along, so the final episode will first be broadcast on Tokyo MX a week from Sunday (the 30th). Also, the second Kenichi OVA should already be out, but I haven’t gotten my mitts on it yet. I’m aware it exists though, better than I can usually say for OVAs.

Impressions:

Same ol’, same ol’. Flashbacks everywhere to recap things we saw just last week, standing around explaining things (like "ship full of crazy monsters and/or pirates" isn’t a good enough reason to kill things), Kaguya Sakuya being eaten by said ship of lizardmen, the usual. That was about the entirety of the first half. The flashbacks continued through the whole thing though. Good god, if you removed all the unneeded recap, this episode probably would’ve been about 5 minutes shorter. At least the music was nice, I guess, even if the insert song didn’t make a whole ton of sense… or any really.

The second had the royalty A.) Give him back his own sword, B.) strip in the back of their wagon, and C.) Cast a spell on him to give him wings. And instead of immediately going off to save the damsel in distress, Rick went back to the bakery to make dough and figure out what his true calling was until the girls told him that as long as he was true to himself, it was okay. For I think the 8th time in the last four episodes. But before he went, it was important that the random kid from about a month ago show up to deliver bread and teach him the true meaning of happiness. It’s not like there’s a ship full of lizard monsters to deal with or anything. The entire time, Ex-X was playing tag with the gunships. I try not to think about the chronology of the episode. it only leads down a dark path of insanity.

Preview:

Generic final episode preview.