So man, I hope you were waiting for another episode of fighting in this tournament-esc thing where NOTHING gets resolved. Because honestly, if you were expecting one of these fights to take only one episode…have you ever seen a shonen before?
Anyway yes. Get ready today for a lot of posturing, a lot of talking, and a lot of not fighting. Well……might as well talk about what does happen.
So the episode starts up with Konami (Blows kazoo) is talking with Torimaru about how the fight’s about to start on the TV. However, she notices that there’s one extra spot at the table. Torimaru trolls her into thinking it’s the PR director who threw Wet Blanket under the bus, and she sticks up for wet blanket saying that the PR guy doesn’t deserve anything because he was a jerk to him. It’s then revealed that he was trolling her. And her reactions are always priceless.
Yeah, I know this part is kind of inconsequential to the story, but you know what? I really like Konami and I don’t get to talk about her enough. So whatever.
We then see that there IS a secret person who’s coming to the viewing, but they don’t feel like showing us who it is yet.
Meanwhile the fight begins and we see that the three girls are happy because they got randomly placed in places that were very good for them. Here’s my problem with these guys plan. They had a very specific plan of separating the guys from their aces by way of destroying the bridge when they get together. Now….since this is all set out randomly….what the fuck was their plan if they other teams were summoned near each other? Like…if Wet Blanket’s team all ended up within a block of each other? For being ‘Random’ these locations are pretty spread out.
I mean look at that. That’s pretty spread out. What would they have done if like… all the people ended up in that green rectangle there in the middle? I don’t know, just seems odd to me that you would plan your attack around where you HOPE you ended up.
It’s then that we get the backstory about how one of the girls from the all girls team is sad because… she’s moving or something?
To be completely honest, I had to go back and rewatch this scene because I skipped over it the first time because…really? I didn’t care. I was like “Okay, cool story bro, now get back to the fight as I REALLY don’t care about this random girl I just met having to move.”
Also…does..does that work like that? Like..can you be part of what is basically a military organization and then your parents are like “well, we’re moving so you can’t be part of it anymore.” Can…can you do that? What did they do like….give Border a note excusing her from their service? See, that’s the problem with these shows letting under 18 year olds join. Crap like that. First of all you really couldn’t put minors in direct chance of death like that and also, THAT. The “My parents are moving so I have to go with them.” Could you imagine that in real life? “Sorry Captain, I WOULD stay and protect the fort, but my mom says I have to move to Kentucky to go to High School.” This scene is part of the glaring problem of having minors in your show.
Meanwhile, Chika destroys their plan of blowing up the bridge by…blowing up the bridge before they can.
Because they do this they weren’t able to group up properly themselves and the advantage the all girl team has isn’t as big.
After the theme song (btw thanks for that 13 minutes in) they fight some more which basically amounts to nothing. Like..no joke. Nothing happens here. They kind of just fart around and run at each other, the girl fights Murakami a bit…and….then Wet Blanket runs into a building and says “I totally have a plan.”
We then cut back to see who the secret person was that Konami and the gang were hanging out with. and it was really….
THIS GUY all along!
(Dramatic sting music plays)
Wait…who the fuck is this guy? This Kai from Vanguard looking mother fucker? Apparently his name is..Hyuse or something? Am…(eye shift) am I supposed to know who this guy is yet? I…I certainly hope not because I have no idea who this guy is. He’s kind of an asshole too as they’re like “What do you think of the match?” and he’s like “The weak will lose.” and i’m like “That didn’t even answer their question”. Honestly I have no idea who this guy is and I don’t care.
And that’s basically where the episode ends.
This episode, once again just postured and had nothing actually happen. The round started but nobody’s lost yet and they’re all just farting around not doing a whole bunch of anything. I know they’re taking a break around episode 50 so they probably want to just wrap up this tournament and then stop to breath, but this episode was just boring and I kept waiting for something to happen. The ‘fight’ part was useless as it didn’t go anywhere, and the best part of the episode was Konami being awesome in the first 3 minutes. Then again, EVERY episode is made better with Konami.
At this point, i’m as tired of this review as I was the episode. I actually had a lot more to say about NOTHING than I thought I would. So…good for me on that? Anyway, here’s the score.
Episode 4/10 (+2 because of Konami)
Oh, before I leave you I thought i’d show you the character poll picture. Honestly because I think it’s just hilarious.
Like I’ve said before. I’m apparently not the only one who adores Konami. Peace out
-Hideki
Uhhh… That “random dude” was the leftover alien from the attack on Border- who got captured.
oh yeahhhhh. I forgot about that guy. See. That there proves my point of how little I cared about that. XD
Yeah… admittedly he hasn’t done much outside of the background for now. Not counting gambling with Jin on rank matches, because that’s a bad idea all the way around.