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Anime, please say "usa" when you mean "bunny underwear", not U.S.A.

Impressions:

My patience for the training arc antics has run its course. Thankfully, they're done… until the next one. Unfortunately, this was another episode of nothing but. Which continues to be utterly bizarre because this was just some random side rival girl who I don't believe even interacted with, possibly even knew that Ray existed for most, if not all of the first season. Though maybe I'm just not remembering it. That's half the fun. There's some random rich girl who's doing calisthenics and ripping up her tights and… are we supposed to know who this is? I assume so, but it's just a cutaway to some random girl's clothes ripping for absolutely no reason and with zero relevance to anything going on.

I so badly want to understand what on earth is going through the minds of the people who made this and thought any of it was a good idea. Which is at least mental stimulation, unlike having to sit through the fifty seven thousandth RPG tutorial where you learn that skills are skills, which are used to perform a skill, which is an action that you can perform that does something. I was dragging SAO for that crap 14 years ago, unaware that it would be the living hell I find myself in for two weeks at the start of every season.

Next Episode:

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