天下制覇

How unclean.

I did give "Yay Blonde Foreigners" a few minutes to make me laugh. It didn’t even try once within the first five minutes. Lovely. Also, LeTV, you’re the silliest Chinese netcast.

Impressions:

Maybe I wasn’t paying attention to the signs in the first episode. It wouldn’t be the first time. But of all the possible directions this show could have gone in, Hogwart’s School for Magical Girls, complete with multiple magical pets, was relatively low on the list. Like the first episode, this one was also fairly soporific with the action parts again standing out above everything else. Clearly meant to introduce the rest of the Huffle Puff squad, but it didn’t really even do a good job of that. At least they didn’t bludgeon us upside the head with their lifestory, favorite foods, three sizes, etc upon introduction, but they didn’t exactly do anything interesting either, unless you count running down a corny CG hallway as ‘interesting.’ It was certainly laughable.  

The fight itself was fine for "randomly throw them in against some bug with zero actual purpose or context." There wasn’t so much of the nice visual direction and edge of craziness this time though, just our protagonist having a mental breakdown. The Lady MacBeth-esque scrubbing after another magical murder was about as close as it got. Hopefully the ending of the episode means she’ll overcome it, but if I was a betting man, my money would be on someone else popping in to save the day while she keeps hamming it up. In the first episode, I assumed that the En Fuego change was more dissociation, but this episode it seemed like more just poor writing. This "killing daemonia means murdering people and that’s making for some unhinged magical girls" thing certainly could be a good way to drive things, but they can’t keep showing it as this one sided. "Let the monster kill a bunch of people, or kill the monster at the cost of the person already eaten and probably dead anyway," is not really a moral choice. I’d much rather see them focus on the aftereffects like with the approximately two seconds Scrubby Blue trying to wash away her sins, treating the murdering as a necessary evil than the Human Torch go into PTSD fits at the most dramatic of times over a girl who was presented from the start as self-centered and murderously insane.