Another reason to split up: girl-on-girl action. No, not that kind. The shounen kind. No wait, maybe we do mean that kind, because at one point, the girls are punching each other so hard, their bras come flying off. Ladies, don’t you hate it when that happens?

— I’m learning way more about Kusaba than I ever cared to know. Sure, she sounds like a hot mess, but people in glass houses shouldn’t be throwing rocks. Urusugawa is literally a stalker.

— Kusaba drops mines? Why? ‘Cause she’s a landmine girl? Is this how literal we’re going to be? But they don’t even blow up. Instead, they’re mines that buff her. Uh-huh…

— To free herself from Urusugawa’s goo, Kusaba cuts her clothes free. Fine, I can accept that. But then she does it to Urusugawa as well because…? The only answer is fanservice. Then we go right back to looping the same lazy ass punching animation from earlier.

— Did Kusaba NTR Urusugawa just for this 1v1? No, not quite. She merely photoshopped it. Even so, that’s some real dedication to being an asshole. Why is nobody nice on this show? Why are there so many jerkoffs left and right? You’re supposed to be students joined together for a common cause: exorcising evil spirits. But somehow, these kids have more passion fighting each other than the ghosts that actually murder people.

— Ah, I should’ve known the doctored image wouldn’t work. Urusugawa is a stalker, so she knows every single picture that her “fave” has ever posted. Photoshop is so 2000s, 2010s coded. We’re all about planet-killing AI technology instead. Kusaba should’ve doubled down on being horrible by asking Grok or whatever to generate an image of the guy in a whole new pose instead.

— So of course, the two girls eventually end up naked and too exhausted to fight. Yeah, that happens.

— With the girls out of commission — although Haijima should technically still be floating about, right? — we turn our attention back to the flamers. Somehow, Enishiro has leveled up his fighting ability. How? By strapping his phone to his abs. Why the abs? Why not just tie it around your arm, leg or whatever? Even your back would make more sense. What if you take a punch to the gut and it breaks your phone? Meh, I’m just going to assume he’s a sicko.

— It’s like we’re in a contest to see who can be the most reprehensible, because it turns out Surugi gets off on people hating him. This show has no imagination whatsoever, so when I say he gets off to it, he literally gets off to it, tissues and all. I’ve never seen a show try so hard to make every character hateable. Other than like Haijima, who is redeemable? And even then, she’s probably a smelly shut-in.

— Welp, not a line I expected to read today.

— Kasubata and Wagari are still busy fighting when Hasumi runs up and stabs the former in the arm. Not because he wanted to, of course. Rather, he had been hypnotized by Namekawa. Wagari immediately reveals his distaste for his own classmate’s nasty tactics. See, even the characters on the show don’t like each other.

— But Kasubata doesn’t stop fighting despite his knife wound, because willpower. Just pure, unadulterated willpower. It’s a shounen, so willpower trumps all. Meanwhile, the teachers remain on their asses, watching all of this go down — watching their students injure and potentially cripple each other. Sure, they tell Azaki to call Kasubata back, but nope, they can’t do anything else to protect these kids.

— Didn’t someone say that they detected a ghost account within the vicinity of the kids? So yeah, I don’t expect this competition to have a resolution. Instead, the kids are going to have to join forces or whatever to fight the interloper.