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I worry about this show.

Impressions:

Well, this was the usual ping-pong match between overblown drama, angst-hair, and then fighting giant fish. I swear, this is the second giant animal I’ve seen someone fight today, plus the snake yesterday, and lord only knows what else I’m forgetting. I’m tired of the giant animals now.

AAAAAAAAanyway. Naoi is making a strong case for being the most obvious closeted man alive as he joins the team and proceeds to touch and feel up the other men as much as possible before Yuri yanks him aside to dreamiy stare into Otonashi’s eyes for the next 12 minutes. The only way they could make him more flaming is if they gave him a scarf and a poodle to carry around. *ahem* Stay on course. Otonashi’s sob story about his sick sister was as lame and predictible as you’d expect from Maeda. I was hoping partway through that he’d start resenting her and then she’d die and he’d feel guilty or something, but no, he was just an obsessive loving brother who got into a train accident. I’d be a lot more forgiving of these drama dumps if they actually worked up to them, or did anything with them afterwards. They just appear, get spewed out to try to squeeze a quick tear off, and then vanish into the wind again.

And then everybody wandered off to fight a giant fish.

*ahem*

Right, so, the last third of the episode was a tad inane. More amusing than the first half, certainly, but… and I feel like a broken record… mixing up your massive drama with fish boss battles leads to an unhealthy place. Somewhere in Japan, there is a scriptwriter who is drowning in tequila just to make it through the next Angel Beats episode and my heart goes out to him. I have no idea why they’re so scared of Kanade but have no problem letting the mind-raper who just killed all of them into the group. Whatever the case, I would have been happier if the entire case hadn’t gotten into a line and humped each other. I’m not sure if Yuri was mad about everybody coming together to help Kanade, or jealous that she wasn’t at the front of the mantrain. I’m putting my money on the cliffhanger at the end of her beat up by ‘Tenshi’ down as a ploy for attention. Although maybe Maeda’s just swiping from Kanon for this one and it’ll be an unwitting one like Mai. Fun to speculate about that at least, which is more than I can say for the Otonashi parts.

Oh yeah, and apparently his name is Yuzuru (turn over/surrender). That’s about as bad as Otonashi.