Time for my weekly Saturday slop post.

• With every other show, I try to maintain a semblance of effort. Like wow, an essay and everything! This guy has something to say. But I’m not gonna bother with that nonsense here.
• Look, it’s a scary ghost. This one also has blue flames. Hmm. The problem is that right off the bat, they’re telling me that this kid is the org’s most powerful enemy. It’s also the same ghost that had killed Enishiro’s sister. Really? Some little twerp like that? That’s the best design you could come up with? Then every other ghost is going to be a letdown. I think shounens can only survive on the coolness factor, because their stories sure as hell ain’t going to cut it. But there’s nothing cool or badass about this kid. Nothing remotely threatening.
• Yes, Enishiro shares the same blue flame. It’s a ghastly power that can drain its victims of their lifeforce with a single touch. Like always, the shounen protagonist is just magically strong, the mysterious chosen one to save us all. And no, even though this same flame will be the cause of his ostracization from most of the student body, nobody warned him beforehand about it.
• I don’t want to even know if Haijima truly looks like that or if she’s just controlling the doll from a distance.
• Meanwhile, I bet this girl is tsundere. There’s some weird anime law that every twintailed anime character has to be tsundere.
• Enishiro only needs to pass one more test before he gets to hit the field and start hunting ghosts. Welp, that’s just slightly more training than the losers in ICE.

• See? What did I say? If that “sad boy k” is the best you’ve got, then everything else has to be lame. What the hell are we fighting now? Ghosts made out of bubblegum?
• According to Azaki, his teacher, a lot of people at this school already assume he’s working with “sad boy k” just because they share the same blue flame. Like with most enforcement orgs, the folks here are dumb as bricks.
• I’ve never seen the word “flamebaiter” until this anime came along.
• Of course Enishiro sucks for ragebaiting (that’s the word I know). There are plenty of ways to make money, so why did he have to choose the one that made people miserable? But nobody even pities the fact that if he fails this test, he will probably die. Nobody pities the fact that he’s just been plucked from his everyday life while still grieving his sister’s death. There’s no humanity in this show. There’s no heart. There’s no one that I can point to and say, “Okay, this shit sucks balls, but at least I kinda like this character.” Even the teachers — the adults in the room — are just so blasé about the possibility of some kid dying. So I don’t respect the villain, because it’s just some boring-looking, blue-tinted kid. But I can’t even respect the good guys because they all fucking suck. They’re legitimately bad people.
• During the actual test, Enishiro looks like he’ll tire himself out long before he hits the required 100-kill mark. So Kasubata, the designated best friend-slash-rival starts ragebaiting Enishiro from the sidelines. This gets the entire audience to join in, which none of the teachers try to stop, because y’know, everyone here sucks. Gotta ragebait the ragebaiter if you wanna motivate them. Wow, what clever writing.
• But of course, this is where Enishiro starts turning things around. Basically, a hate-fueled underdog. Even after the kid has clearly passed the test, one of the teachers keeps sending ghosts out from to fight. I guess that’s how you do a shounen where the protagonist is unlikable: make everyone else somehow even less likable.

• So, so unlikable.
• Twintailed girl finally speaks for the first time all episode, and it’s only to insult people. Ah, the tsuntsun stage. Let’s see how long it lasts.