This episode focuses on Nanami, the mind reading witch.

Nanami’s main trait is her mind altering ability- but to do this she must look someone in the eye.  So of course this episode begins with her lifting her skirt up for everyone around her so she can see into their eyes.

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From the beginning you can tell this show wants you to feel empathy for Nanami. But even people in the OPENING die so it’s hard for me to get invested because I get the feeling she gonna diiieeee. Her handler is nice to her. . .until she asks to be free for a day and he pulls a gun. Once Nanami has found out where Ryota and 1107, who I assume is Neko, are she manipulates the people around her to hold off the guy until his sunglasses are off so she can rewrite his memory to. This episode from then on is focused on Nanami and her pain as a witch.

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Of course when she reads his memory she sees something about the lab. . .that the story then kind of ignores for the rest of the episode. Like. . .they’re trying to make you care. They’re working really hard this episode to do that and because of that they ignore some extremely relevant issues. I want to like this show and don’t get me wrong- for the first time in many episodes I do actually remember these are all human beings who are being abused. It does it’s job. . . just as not as well as it should.

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Nanami figures out who Ryota is and alters a classmates memory so she can meet him. Ryota quickly figures out that she is a witch and she needs eye contact to alter his memories and read his mind. He tries to prove to her he actually wants to help her by looking at him, but instead she tries to delete all his memories of his entire life. For some inexplicable reason Ryota keeps his memories and plays dumb by acting like a baby.

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From the rest of the episode it diverges in Nanami spending her one day of freedom before turning in Ryota and the rest and Ryota and the gang trying to stop her. Nothing the group does to stop Nanami is particularly interesting and the episode is mostly focused on Nanami’s desires for freedom. One of the best parts of the episode is her flashing her boobs at her handler who doesn’t remember her in order to get 1,000 yen. . .which is about 12 dollars.

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I don’t know what it is about this anime but none of the girls look particularly sexy until they’re full out naked. Even in bikinis I went, eh, these girls are cute. I guess the author has no real sense of sex appeal because I normally can’t find myself into any of them, even in the copious hot spring episodes.

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We get it Kazumi looks boobies . . .err.. .  .it’s her name right? I’m sorry I just. . .have such a hard time keeping the names straight, even of the character’s I actually enjoy.

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I’ll be frank with you- this anime is filled with bland characters. The most I can say is. . . at times, one or two of them remind you they’re actually fun. But if everyone dies by the end of this show I will like probably not care if silver haired bishounen is sitting on their corpses laughing as he becomes the alien overlord. What. IT WOULD BE FUNNY!

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I hope we learn about Ryota because apparently it’s a big deal his memory wasn’t erased and Nanami called him something like a ‘write-once’ which is apparently dangerous. I hope we get to that kind of stuff because at most this anime is really bland right now. That’s the issue- there is not a lot distinguishing this anime from a lot of others. Even the opening song which has a good tune has a shitty animation stock to go with it. This anime so far is average and I just want to see it become something more. I have all these hopes! But for now let’s just accept Nanami will likely die next episode and maybe the plot will come to play.

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Maybe.

Oki