天下制覇

This show has the best eyecatches.

Impressions:

I’m actually starting to warm up to this show a lot. I hesitate to say that it’s because it’s doing a ton really well, but would rather say that it’s not doing a whole ton wrong, and what it does screw up (mainly Kazuya) is so terrible that it’s still amusing. That said, this episode was very good at keeping the technobabble to a minimum and about two thirds of the episode was Bridget’s fight with Ingrid. They also did a really good job with the music at the end when Ganessa popped up out of nowhere to explain Ingrid complex about first year’s getting in over their heads and getting her best friend chopped in half. Bridget kind of deserved a beat down this episode too. Ingrid wasn’t being very nice about it, but attacking someone in their underwear in the middle of the night? That’s low.

Of course, Kazuya then ruined the scene by using his deus ex magic abilities to overpower her and tell her what her dead friend really wanted, but here I am mocking him for it and we’ve come full circle back to at least some form of entertaining again. He ruins a lot of things. The way he just walks into a girl’s room and immediately makes a beeline for her diary says something very unwholesome about his upbringing… above and beyond the fact that he seems to have no memories of his sister wearing clothes. Kazuya also had a hilarious scene when he interrupted them and told Bridg he’d be her Limiter again. Every single pair of ovaries within a 50 foot radius started blushing and stammering. I’d be mad at the wildly seesawing tone in the show if it wasn’t so damn funny to laugh at. Bridget also easily broke double digits with her lines finally. I lost count at around 20, but she may have reached upwards of 30, bringing her season total to I think 35.

Preview:

Sometimes you have pants, sometimes you’re naked staring up at a mountain for no reason.