Let’s do this once more… no, not with gusto. Not for this show.
— So when we last left off, Sad Boy K (yeah that’s his stupid name) showed up and incapacitated Enishiro’s buddies, leaving our favorite ragebaiter alone to… I dunno, test his mettle? Just typical shounen nonsense.
— Realizing he’s up against the villain who killed his sister, Enishiro predictably snaps and charges at K. But none of his attacks work! Can you believe fire doesn’t work on fire? Weird! But don’t you worry, ’cause after hundreds of episodes and multiple training arcs, Enishiro’s blue flame is somehow going to work on K’s blue flame! Just sit tight!
— But in the meantime, Enishiro needs to fall to the ground like a sad sack of shit that he is, thereby allowing Azaki to finally show up and save the day. Wait a minute, this sounds familiar…
The toxic trio eventually takes down the mid level ghost, so all’s well that ends well, right? Of course, we get a cliffhanger where the sad boy ghost finally confronts Enishiro. Lemme guess, Enishiro is going to fly into a rage and attack the sad boy ghost recklessly? Azaki is going to show up at the last second to save the day?
Whoa, who said that? Did I say that? I did say that! Oh man, I’m such a genius! Or not. Because this is lazy, hack writing, so even a loser like me can predict what happens next.
— What’s Azaki’s excuse for showing up late? “Those ladies wouldn’t let me go!” he cries. No, don’t blame the ladies. Blame the writer.
— Azaki proceeds to push K back with the power of dramatic koi. To dodge K’s blue flame, our sensei just has to side step back and forth, but according to Enshiro, “He’s on a different level!” See, the beauty of anime, an animated medium, is that you don’t actually have to animate anything. You just have to have characters on the sidelines say stuff. It might as well be a podcast! Who even needs anime? I love podcasts!
— Cue the exposition. Azaki is the living legend, quit to become a teacher, analog versus digital, yadda, yadda, yadda. I love podcasts!
— But you can’t kill the villain in the fifth episode! So of course, K escapes Azaki’s fishy wrath by being pulled into the internet. It’s just that easy. See, they still use http:// over there. Shit’s not even secure. No wonder Japan’s internet is all haunted.
— In the aftermath, all of the teachers get together to bemoan K’s surge in Twitter followers. Don’t worry, guys. It’s just bots!
— “It’d be nice,” one of the teacher says, “if the admins could ban [K’s account]…” Nah, they’re too busy making CSAM with Grok.
— Azaki debriefs the teachers, revealing how K wants to turn Enishiro into a dead account. The teachers react normally.
— Apparently, one of the teachers deliberately fed them bad information just to get Enishiro killed on his first mission. Sure, Kasubata and Urusugawa would’ve died along with him, but gotta break a couple of eggs if you wanna make an omelette!
— Sadly, even the principal has one of her foot on the “Enshiro might have to die” train. Yeah, I get it. Azaki is great, everyone else sucks. But we’ll still go to this shit ass school ’cause we’ve got no other choice!
— Not much to say about the rest of the episode. One girl seems to have taken a liking to Enishiro, because all girls love ragebaiters. The rest of the student body, however, still hates his guts.
— We meet a gyaru nurse who apparently heals her students by snapping selfies of them, then editing out the hurt. That’s right, she has to take a pic of your naked body if you’ve taken body blows. Probably moonlights as a Twitter admin.
— To tell you the truth, I hate podcasts. No, I do not want to get NordVPN. No, I do not care what you and your wife did last weekend.
