Oh hey, peep Wakana’s display of fossilized chunks of turd. I wonder what the anime’s trying to say by pitting Wakana and Ruri against one another with such a ridiculous contrast between them. Ruri has perfectly-cut gemstones all worth hundreds of millions of yen; she can really fuel Arma’s addiction (the “rocks” heighten his powers and senses, after all). Wakana, on the other hand, has a bunch of featureless rocks she fished out from a stream.

There’s just something too eye-rollingly ridiculous about this show. It’s not over-the-top wacky; it just feels… dumb. Like a Darkstone turning everything it touches to stone, including the inside floors of the school building, but none of the student body notices a thing. Nobody seems to wonder why the base of the scaffolding suddenly became very brittle. Everyone’s just “Derp, Arma’s in cosplay!” Plus, why are the students unsupervised at the school? Where are all the adults?

Since this episode is a throwaway, I’ll just skip right to the…

Stray Observations

• Did I miss something? We ended the previous episode with a battle and an explosion.

Then this week immediately opens with a high school festival. Huh. So no “The enemy’s still at large; remain vigilant” or nothing. In fact, just forget about the plot because it’s high school festival time! At least there wasn’t a swimsuit competition this time around….

• Man, I thought the heroes in “Tiger & Bunny” have lame powers. In case you haven’t been following that series, the two main protagonists there have heightened physical abilities, but only for a short period of time. When their powers run out, the titular Tiger and Bunny become sitting ducks.

Well, Arma’s power will also run out at inopportune times, but not only that, each time he powers up, he requires a gemstone expensive enough to feed an entire starving African village for years. Considering how the butler technically killed both Darkstones in this episode and all Arma did was save some delinquents… yeah, that was a 140 million yen well spent.

• Am I supposed to believe that Ruri’s never had a school festival before? Then again, it’s about as believable as her having fallen in love with Arma in just four short episodes.

Or getting into this ridiculous get-up just to make onigiri. Those rice grains are wild, man; they could splash all over her clothes and drill hair. Actually, maybe this is the most ridiculous thing about this week’s episode: 140 million yen on gemstones and you feed me onigiri? Where’s the torchon of foie gras? Or the sous vide duck? Those onigiri better contain the tears of a unicorn.

• I wonder if Arma carries this damn pebble around with him every single day.

Like it sits on his night stand and when he gets ready to leave in the morning, he makes sure to grab his “friend:” “Derp, can’t forget my lucky pebble. I-I wish I was you, little buddy.”

• I like to think the angry kid in the upper right-hand corner of this screenshot is telling his parents off for taking him to such a lame exhibit: