天下制覇

Flashback week continues.

Impressions:

At least the flashbacks here were brief instead of consuming half the episode, but were still completely unnecessary. Wouldn't want to get in the way of the sixty-nine licking scene, after all. The whole antagonist faction wasted no time this episode in going straight to bad harem shenanigans. First the 'healing' sixty-nine, then a mushroom out of nowhere made him all gropey. That said, unless the rescue squad shows up immediately, they did declare at the end of the episode that the antagonist team backstory is coming, which means flashback time next week. Oh boy. And yet still won't answer the question of why they don't just… not be murderous when they can glare meaningfully instead.

Mostly, this continues to drive home what a total non-entity Yuuki is, incapable of exerting any kind of agency no matter the situation. He's just a prop to be carted around and sexed upon for the audience's self-gratification. Like when he asks why they're all murdery and they glare in response. Good question, kiddo. And then because we need to drag things out, we take a glare as an acceptable answer and change the topic to something more anodyne and less tedious. Way to avoid conflict and progressing anything whatsoever. If he could just vibrate, he'd be all any of these girls ever needs in a sexual aid.