天下制覇

I knew you’d pull through, Seven Arcs.

Impressions:

Great episode from start to finish, and not just because I had a better idea of what to expect from the show. They pretty much dropped the Takeshi’s castle angle and aside from the announcers and people turning into animal balls, this was a knock down drag out fight from start to finish with Shinku vaulting over things, smacking them in the face, and giant energy blasts everywhere. It certainly wasn’t the best choreographed action that I’ve ever seen, but about 18 straight minutes of it with the explainations happening concurrent to things exploding goes a long way. Leon Hot Pants just made it all the better by dominating the battle field and taking on both Shinku and Greeny… then flirting with them as she left. Hot Pants is awesome. Even her chocobo is awesome.

Nothing really happened on the plot front until the last 15 seconds aside from an explaination of Shinku’s new powers and how they fight, and that’s just that nobody thought the summoning ritual all the way through. Like anybody really thought this was a two way trip… although she did send her dog there without any issues, so who even cares? Shinku is building himself a harem rather quickly too after keeping himself out of everybody’s chest last week, even if it did take a second squeeze to confirm that Eclair is indeed female. It’s certainly not the most creative group around, but if they can keep the future battles like this instead of focusing on the grunts, this show is looking a whole lot better.