天下制覇

The tint knob is not a toy.

Impressions:

A very very dull episode about how Ange got her groove back became a witch along with Maria. Mostly though, the whole thing was shrouded in so much white and tint that I think someone at Deen fell asleep at the wheel. You can show bright sunlight without covering the entire screen in glare, you know. Either that or witches are radioactive. Beatrice is made of plutonium and everything is a metaphor for nuclear winter. Suddenly it all makes sense.

The second half was made particularly painful by all the recap and the fact that it was just Ange talking to people we’ll never see again to recap past events. Sadly, that was all that we saw of the vast majority of the cast this episode. Battler had maybe a line, Beatrice had about ten. All the rest of the first half was Maria and Sakutaro Shotataro while the second half was all Ange all the time. Twenty episodes in, we really don’t need some random unrelated third party recapping previous events just to tell us that one of them was a bit screwy. LD just felt like taunting Ange with things that we’ve know for months at the end too. Well, better out of the way now than later.

Mammon’s not even a very cute Stake, while I’m getting all my complaints on the table. And yes, that’s a very poorly drawn chandelier. Thank you for focusing on it while spewing exposition, Deen.