天下制覇

Be more interesting, damn you!

Impressions:

A very Sae/Hiro centered episode, though part 1 was pretty much exclusively Sae and part 2 Hiro. This would normally be a good thing, but it really felt like they phoned it in for this one. I don’t know… maybe I’m just getting a little tired of Sae since she’s probably the weakest character on the show, or maybe it was the 1:40 segment all shot from the same angle, which they used previously in the episode (and in previous episodes) and then bumped back to later. Good lord, that segment was terrible. Nothing says entertainment like watching Sae talk on the phone for almost two full minutes. Hiro’s part was a little better, but still pretty lifeless in comparison to previous episodes.

I don’t have a whole ton more to say than that. Sae does work, Hiro bakes cream puffs. Almost all of the entertainment came from Yuno, Miyako and Yoshinoya though, which meant that a large portion of the episode was just me sort of drifting off to never-never land as Hiro talks about chocolate diets while Sae just grunts to show that she’s part of the conversation. There were a ton of outside references this episode, many of which seemed a bit strange. Yuno has a Yoko pillow, Hiro had the Yakitate Japan thing going with her puffs, Sae cosplaying as Izumi in one of the interstitials, and I’m sure the books in the book store are probably something as well, though I didn’t really try to guess.

Preview:

Yes, get them all drunk. All is proceeding as planned.