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Yui surprisingly cares little about being constantly shoved into Hinata’s crotch.

Impressions:

I keep waiting for this show to differentiate itself from Little Busters’ gimmick of "make fake world, MCs get stronger… PROFIT!", but that hope is looking more and more thin each week. So we have:

Traumatic life ruining event
????
Appear in virtual world
Disappear from virtual world after administrator removes you or you resolve your PTSD
Profit!!

But wait, it’s totally different because it’s science, not magic, and the girl whose disorder is about losing everybody she loved wants to break the system that would take away all her current friends. I’m sure we can trust her when she says you’re dead. Hold on a minute here… Let’s have a twist, or is PAWorks’ whole scheme to attach someone famous to their project, steal one of the notably gimmicks from them (Type-Moon = Magic Eyes!) and then just call it a day? If PAWorks’ next project has R07 on board and is about a town where people mysteriously develop unquenchable cravings for the works of TS Eliot because the main character smells funny (or is a witch), I think we’ll have our answer.

To be fair though, those are complains about the overall series thus far, this episode was actually mostly pretty entertaining and certainly the most focused of the show to date. That was helped along by the fact that the angst was shoved off to the last 2-3 minutes of the episode, and further helped by the fact that they literally took a time out in the middle of the baseball game in order to monologue about the trauma of baseball before the next pitch resulted in that exact same situation…… which Yui then interrupted and saved someone else from resolving their trauma. Way to go, Yui. Another blow for PTSD. It still pales in comparison to SamCham’s or even… loathe as I am to admit… Haruhi’s baseball episodes, but the minimal angst, and dedicated focus on the comedy aspect for the first 90% of the episode was certainly a promising step in the right direction for this show.

Also, for an episode about baseball, the lack of TK was criminal.

Sorry about the bad cut on the new OP too. My laptop needs to be restarted… badly.