What is it this week with me getting episodes devoted to random people I don’t give a shit about? First it was the cup and ball guy from Tribe Cool Crew, now its this guy from World Trigger.
Yeah you know..THIS guy. the guy who um… did the uh…. fuck.. WHO was this guy again?
So yeah the episode starts off with that evil akatsuki guy attacking the three dudes from Kazuma’s group.
We learn that the boring guy has a side effect and it’s super hearing. Well, decently super. He can apparently hear 5-6 times better than a person.
What’s that? You want to see them fight? Silly audience, this is the moment which they felt it was pertinent to give us 5 straight minutes of backstory with this guy. Flashback and all.
Seriously I checked. This flashback runs for a good 4+ minutes. WHY they felt this was important to show us at all let alone in the middle of a fight with a reject from Naruto I have absolutely no idea.
In the flashback we learn that everyone was kind of a dick to the guy with the hearing because in the world of Border, super hearing is one of the loser super powers.
However Kazuma sees why this is a good idea and puts him on his team. There. I just saved you four minutes.
Back in the fight they try to kill the stupid bad guy but we learn that his black trigger must be summoning bullshit as after his head is cut off he’s fine because….liquid i guess?
Apparently another one of this guy’s powers is hitting you even when he misses you so Kazuma has to bail out and the other two decide to retreat. So yeah… that whole spending 1/5 of the episode talking about hearing guy was REALLY important apparently.
Cut back to that guy who was fighting Jin that one time who shows up and kills a rabbit thing. He then gets happy he might fight. That’s…about it for him that episode.
Cut back to Jin who asks if he can borrow duck face (oh yeah, i forgot duck face was in this show it’s been so long) He tells him that his future sight is giving him branching paths. And in the worst case scenario, wet blanket will die. And that’s where the episode ends.
If you can’t tell, I was not a fan of this episode. Nothing happened enough in it to make me…invested. The three fight the bad guy, they lose one, they run away. The bad guys stand there and look ominous. Some guy who works for border complains about not being able to get a train back to town.
This is the thing I hate about any shonen show. The posturing stretching out of the fights. i know these fights are going to take forever, but its annoying that I know I have to wait weeks to see the payoff instead of being able to see it in one chunk.
Thank GOD Konami’s back, however she didn’t get to fight the big baddy this week and of course I’m not reviewing next week when she probably WILL be.
Also, I gotta talk about THIS guy.
Look, I’m just going to come out and say it. He is not scary, nor is he even threatening. He is one of the most generic things i’ve seen come out of a shonen show in a LONG time.
Let’s go down the villain checklist shall we?
- Wears black
- Has fucking horns
- has weird bullshit powers
- Mocks good guys for being weak
- Complains about being ‘bored’6. Quick to anger when he doesn’t immediately win
- Underestimates EVERYONE.
He is literally a cardboard cutout of EVERYTHING villainous. Seriously, black horns? Jesus. And yes, I know they’re ‘trion receptors’ but come the fuck on, the villain has BLACK HORNS.
The only INTERESTING villain to me AT ALL in this entire battle is the old guy.
Yeah THAT guy. I want to see THAT guy do something. I don’t care about the satanic offspring of Sasuke and Sephiroth.
This review is turning into more of a rant i’m realizing. But that’s only because I was so BORED this episode. We get it, the guy can super hear. Cool story bro.
I will now sum up this whole episode is 40 words or less.
“This guy has super hearing. Ha! we beat the bad guy. oops. No we didn’t and now i have to leave.” “Hey, everyone, go defend the C ranks!” “hey guys i need yuma so four eyes won’t die.”
Bam. 38.
If you skip this episode, the only thing you’ll miss is the bad guy being cheap and Kazuma bailing out. Honestly, go ahead and skip this one. Man…I hope Konami kicks more ass next episode.
Episode 4/10
-Hideki