天下制覇

Is there any reason these girls all feel the need to undress in public places?

Impressions:

An okay episode I guess, but it really didn’t work for me. The show continues to have its now signature problem of having no idea how to advance the plot short of just spewing it out from random orifaces. This time, it happened to be Tsuchimikado. Touma literally noticed him and Style talking, wandered over out of curiosity, and got sucked into about a four minute segment of Tsuchi’s talking head as they randomly toured the city while the plot for this short arc was summarized. The little encounter with Oriana at the end of the episode and Touma accidentally cancelling something when he shook her hand took about an eighth the time and was far more interesting.

Most of the rest of the episode was Touma doing harem maintenance along with a new addition to it. And by harem maintenance, I mean walking in on as many as possible while changing. At least he’s getting quicker at dodging Index’s bites. I don’t care too much for the newest member Seiri either. Maybe if she wasn’t animated like a jerky epileptic mule with two watermelons strapped to its chest every time she was on screen, she’d be less of a joke. It just feels like she was spawned just because somebody realized that the esper/Touma’s every day life side of things lacked a giant breasted character and poof, here’s your generic creature ready to be soaked, walked in on, and groped. Batteries not included.

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