When the episode opens, Qifrey meets with a fellow witch named Alaira. They have a bit of catching up as they descend into the watery depths where an entire city lives among the whales. Qifrey tells Alaira that Coco isn’t his official apprentice yet, because you gotta pass your tests first. Unfortunately, it’s a bad time for one of them. So bad, you could even die. Welp, it’s a good thing he entrusted Coco to Agott! Surely, nothing bad can happen while he’s gone! I mean, yeah, Agott looked a little surly the last time he was there, but, um, she’s always like that! She would never, ever endanger an apprentice-to-be!
Karamazov’s follower counts are kinda paltry, aren’t they? Plus, followers themselves mean little. How many people are watching each stream concurrently? They’re not being view-botted, are they? How many superchats are they getting? KAngel has a serious follower count, but how many of those accounts are still active? How many of them watch every stream? How many of us sometimes click to follow someone just to never watch any of their content again? It happens a lot. Nevertheless, Karamazov claims to have the momentum. Maybe they’ve been growing super fast. Sure, but that usually slows down greatly once you’ve breached a million subs. If you can keep the momentum up after that, then I’d say that’s remarkable.
Gabby, the teeth girl, is the first to show up after Yuru finally has his Daemons. She then simply asks Yuru to join her. I feel like you need an explanation. Not even a good explanation, but just any explanation. You need to start off with, “Hey, so uh this might sound kinda crazy, but the villagers have been lying to you this entire time…?” Clearly, Yuru and his Daemons aren’t attacking on sight. So why not be a little a little less blase about this? Instead, when Yuru asks if Gabby and her people are responsible for the villagers’ deaths, she’s just all, “We sure are!” Just strikes me as kinda stupid. Maybe they sent the wrong person to do this job.
It’s kinda hard to describe Botan Kamiina Fully Blossoms When Drunk, because nothing really happens. So far, we have three characters. Ibuki, the resident adviser, drinks alone because she always hiccups. Anime is dramatic as all hell, so we get a glimpse of a bad experience she had said hiccups. Sigh. Luckily, she soon meets a kindred spirit in Botan, who burps if she consumes any carbonated drink. Somehow, this makes Ibuki comfortable enough to drink with her. Then we have Kanade, who’s a bit jealous that Ibuki is willing to drink with someone else and not her. Sounds like she has feelings for Ibuki. And… that’s it. There really isn’t much to the show at all.
It’s funny how this show is scratching my new game plus itch far more than the series that actually has the words “new game plus” in its title. I only wish Bertia was a little less clueless. In fact, she might be a touch too clueless. Y’see, she’s too brain-rotted by cheap, cliche otome games, so she continues to see her life as a “scenario.” Everything, she thinks, is dictated by said scenario. For example, saving her mother’s life has led to the woman bearing a second child, which doesn’t happen in the original story. This has the unintended consequence of her father not turning evil, which is necessary for the the scenario to play out as it should. Bertia fears that Cecil won’t have his happy ending as a result. So what does the girl do? She tries her best to corrupt her own father. She even gives him a book with pretty pictures and everything — a literal how-to on the finer points of being evil. By the way, how did she manage to print something like that in this universe? Are there people passionate about graphic design in our fantasy setting? But I digress. This part is a little odd to me, though. Bertia was so deathly afraid of her mother dying, but she’s just fine with her father becoming an evil doer who might get punished harshly, i.e. executed? I dunno, man…
