Maybe you could’ve prepared a little bit.
Impressions:
This was probably meant to be a big dramatic reveal episode, but I feel nothing. Maybe worse than nothing, I just don’t care. The cliffhanger from last week is unceremoniously resolved in about 45 seconds, predictably, and then ignored for the rest of the episode, to be instead spent on a date episode with the one magical girlfriend. Just when it seems like it’s completely filler, a monster shows up, the music goes into overdrive, and two minutes later, literally everybody is dead except the bishie dude in charge who’s in on the whole thing or something. It wasn’t even some hard-fought battle. They punched each other like twice and then I guess the coinflip landed on “melodrama time.”
It reminds me a lot of what put me off Re:Zero so much, except instead of a mewling pathetic sad sack, it’s a spiky haired yelly dude. I’ve tried very little, but boy howdy, am I going to make a maximal amount of hay over it. Complete with Anakin Skywalker NOOOOOOOOOO scream. For the defeat to be crushing, the same amount of effort had to have been made. But he’s just been pissing around. The entire episode is spent on a date. The previous episodes were him whining about not being allowed to Prove His Worth by yelling loudly, which is also how he Proved his Worth. Compared to Summer Time Render with the same premise, for example, where Shinpei and crowd jumped straight back in and were always focused on thwarting fate, not having a picnic because the apocalypse isn’t that serious. Oh wait, it is. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! The consequences of my actions!
