We recently learn that offensive personalities lead to offensive abilities. Basically, you have to be a nasty person to be strong in this universe. So of course, we are introduced to even nastier characters in this week’s episode.

— Enishiro just got his ass handed to him by his sister’s killer, so you know what that means! Yes, it’s time to train! Yay, who doesn’t like a good, generic training arc!

— Again, anyone who wants to have strong offensive abilities needs to have a nasty streak of their own. Kasubata likes to hammer ghosts, so guess what? He bashes people online. Wow, so literal.

— Apparently, Enishiro’s best sparring partner would be the doll. Or rather, the person behind the doll. Y’see, Haijima is a shut-in, so she chooses to interact with people via possessing inanimate objects. Why does an exorcism school need a mascot, though? I mean, who are buying these dolls? Are outsiders visiting this school? And when they’re about to go home, they think to themselves, “Yeah, I could really use a souvenir to remember this school by!”

— Somehow, Haijima can lay the smackdown through her dolls. I don’t see how, considering that a doll has no mass. I mean, try to hurt someone with a teddy bear. It’s not easy, right? But whatever, this is a show where a kid can throw blue fireballs at his enemies.

— Anyway, isn’t Haijima the ideal exorcist? Everyone else has to put their lives on the line to fight the ghosties. Meanwhile, Haijima can stay cooped up in her nasty ass room and fight remotely. She never has to be in direct danger. When she needs to dole out even more punishment, she just possesses a bigger, meaner doll! Maybe she should be the hero and not generic ass shounen boy who screams a lot.

— So why is Haijima good at fighting? ‘Cause she plays fighting games. Duh! Again, very literal.

— But of course, after not even a day of training, Enishiro is already seeing improvements. Yeah, that’s not how it works, but hey, I’d be rushing too if I was the writer. This story sucks, so let’s just speed through it!

— For some reason, Enishiro imagines a dude behind the doll. Doesn’t Haijima sound and talk like a girl? Whatever.

— Naturally, our gamer girl shut-in is also super duper cute, and not someone who is unkempt and out of shape.

— Why is this man so obsessed with Enishiro anyway? Every time we see him, he’s just bitter about Enishiro’s presence? Why doesn’t he have a life? Like the title of this post suggests, everyone in this show is just so nasty. There are one or two nice people like Haijima, but everyone else just plain ass sucks. Even the teachers are people who should never be within 100 miles of a kid.

— Azaki tells Enishiro how previous attempts to exorcise Sad Boy K had failed miserably. Yeah, maybe you shouldn’t send students to do the job. Even the “best” teachers at this school is dumb and horribly negligent (like how Azazi fucked off on the last mission and was “forcibly” dragged away by regular ass women with no powers).

— Normally, first years like Enishiro wouldn’t get to participate in the big exorcism operation, but there’s a loop hole. Of course there’s a loop hole! It’s too dangerous! No rookies allowed! But fine, let’s add an exception since you kids really want to risk your life as an idiot.

— Blah blah blah, training arc.

— Aw, the nasty kids are already bonding. They then went home and do whatever it is that toxic people do — bash people online, be parasocial about their oshi, etc. The thing is, Enishiro hasn’t been making any of his ragebaiting videos ever since his sister died. So why is he getting stronger? Shouldn’t his powers be waning since he’s hardly been, y’now, nasty? Bah, I’m trying too hard to make sense of this throwaway shounen. Why do I even bother?

— After the rest of his classmates leave, Enishiro decides to train some more in the woods. So of course, he bumps into an even nastier student who goes and destroys one of Enishiro’s sister’s keepsakes. Very nasty people here.

— Finally, we’re introduced to the rival class, and they’re all jackasses. Who do you even root for? Again, on Enishiro’s side, Haijima seems kinda nice? There’s one other guy who seems friendly (but he’s so uninteresting that I haven’t bothered to learn his name). Other than that, it’s just one group of jerkass kids versus another group of jerkass kids.