天下制覇

…This was certainly an episode.

Impressions:

Oh boy, here we go again. Of all the ways the start of the episode could've gone, the priest dude immediately tackling and physically beating the crap out of her wouldn't have been in the top five. Within the next five minutes, she's magically healed herself, declared that they've created a bootleg copy of Miucs, possibly killed the original, Riku's re-betrayed them, and everybody's whipped out brand new powers. Seria dual wields battle axes now and bloodily cuts some random witch in half. The one girl's dad has Masamune. The Pokemon girl can fuse her critters into a giant chimera. But actually, it was all a trick and Riku didn't actually betray them and was stalling for time, but the baddie has the power of "has a gun", shoots her in the back and everyone immediately forgets she exists for the rest of the episode, and tries to turn into Jesus. Not literally, which is something I feel like I need to specify. Seria responds by fusing with everyone to go Super Sayajin or something.

It's not even halfway into the episode, and we've covered more ground than I think every other show from the last month. She punches the baddie, who was actually a robot? Then everyone teleports to the AI's secret hideout… somehow… where they do a duet which teaches her that music is okay, so she decides to become an idol. …Uh, okay. And then everyone declares victory and goes home for an epilogue. Including a funeral for Riku, so I guess she's completely dead then? And the world's most inexplicable eleventh hour attempt to ship Seria with the priest dude, who's dying of sad anime man syndrome. Also, I'm pretty sure there's still another episode to go. Or I don't know. Maybe there isn't? Who can even say with this show.