天下制覇

Who brought the root beer?

Impressions:

This really is getting to the point of battered wife syndrome. Most of my enjoyment of this episode came from taunting other people about Koukin’s sexual proclivity while watching the episode. This episode should really have been merged into the previous episode… which should have been merged into the previous one as well. They sat around on the boat for twenty minutes while we suffered through one half-assed attempted assassination on Ryuubi and entirely too much Sonken, and were then attacked by GHOST PIRATES and LeChuck Ten’i. Great. I’m glad that it took them twenty bloody minutes to get the ambush in the middle of the ocean.

For that matter, why was there an ambush in the middle of the ocean? Why not just leave a bomb on the ship? It took them long enough to figure out that they were on their own, why not just leave a bomb on the ship? Or set it to go out into literally the middle of the ocean and just leave them there. Sure, apparently the evil plan works out if next episode’s preview is anything to go by, but the same thing could have been accomplished without SEA GHOST PIRATES. It was painfully obvious every single character involved that it was probably a trap anyway. Sheesh.

Preview:

Again… why not just bomb the damn ship?