天下制覇

All this was missing was rain.

Impressions:

And the season of melodrama drags on with yet more melodrama. Melancholic pianos everywhere are celebrating their sudden resurgence. Note that nothing actually new happens. It’s just them continuing to be sad about the events of last week. No fight with her mom or anything. In fact, she didn’t even appear. All this sadness and moping is predicated on nothing they’ve even shown. Because as everyone knows, saying "X is sad because Y" is the proper for of appealing to the emotions. You are not Jedi, Kyoto Animation, and lots and lots of pianos plus the occasional mournful violin are no substitute for actual writing.

So, an entire episode of saaaaaaaaaaaaaaad plus screaming tantrums, hugs, and swelling sad pianos because these teenage emotions are just too much for anybody to handle. At least it didn’t rain. It did get bad enough to be funny precisely once. When Rikka asked some random girls if they could be friends and the entire class burst out in spontaneous applause plus oohs and aahs. The only thing that would have elicited that out of my highschool days was someone noisily dropping something breakable, although I did go to a very sarcastic school.