天下制覇

Every time a show uses its title in an episode, I die a little more inside.

Impressions:

Meh. This arc certainly isn’t getting any better. Ryuuji seems to have completely reverted to his crappy original self and after Onyx tells him that Rose’s sickness is some dragon thing, Ryuuji begs him to save Rose and then dumps her into the antagonists’ hands. And yes, they seriously referred to it as a "Dragon Crisis." Of course, nobody else cares about this at all. Heck, even the society SWAT team pins Ryuuji down the moment Rose is gone and then proceeds to let him off. Maybe he had a very stern talking to from Society’s head school marm. That’ll learn ‘im.

Basically all the rest was Ryuuji and Rose fumbling around awkwardly for the first half, and Misaki talking while the animators took the day off early in the second. Well, they didn’t exactly put much effort into the first half either. The entire episode was one of the cheapest that this show has had, and it wasn’t really all that well made to begin with. After the first five minutes or so, almost the entire rest of the episode was unmoving talking heads. The nearly minute-long slow zoom out of Misaki and Ryuuji on the rooftop was just plain painful.

Anyway, I can’t wait for Marga to reveal that Onyx wasn’t entirely truthful (what a surprise that’ll be) before Ryuuji and the mod squad go off to save her from Onyx… again. Onyx who now lives in a vial. Fantastic.

Preview:

Snap his neck, Marga.