Hopefully, the spring season will have a Saturday show worth covering, so this nightmare will finally be over in about two or three weeks. But until then…

— You know the drill for battle anime: the good guys will be in dire straits until they’re suddenly not. Maybe someone from the outside will swoop in and lend a hand. Or maybe we’ll just rely on the magical power of friendship. Sometimes, the loser will just magically power up and turn the tables. Let’s see what Dead Account goes with!

— So one of Ashina’s special moves is that he molests you?

— It actually amuses me how little Dead Account, a Japanese animation show, actually wants to animate. Ashina creates a bunch of ice clones, but you don’t get to see any of them actually throw a punch. You just have disembodied limbs come fly in from offscreen to smack Enishiro around.

— Then here comes the backstory, which is actually quite short because Ashina has no depth whatsoever as a character. He’s just a plain ol’ narcissist. There’s no rhyme or reason to it. Bro simply loves himself too much. And instead of getting therapy or even using social media correctly, he decides to kill instead.

— Certain aspects of Japanese culture prioritizes youth, so I guess it shouldn’t surprise me that the prospect of growing old made Ashina feel existential despair. Nevertheless, the phrase “aged like a fine wine” is a thing. People still remain attractive as they get old. The attractiveness just comes across in a different way.

— Plus, he could’ve just posted his nudes on OnlyFans or whatever they use over there for raunchy content. That way, he would’ve been raking in money while also preserving his beauty for eternity. But nah, let’s just betray my friends instead… except I don’t think Class 1-A was ever his friends. Even in his flashbacks, they’re dicks to him. Granted, he sucks, but it was just funny to hear Enishiro try and scold Ashina for wanting to hurt his “team.” Bro, they fucking hated him.

— I think this is the only time we ever really see Ashina move his limbs. Most of the time, he’s just floating in the sky while magically summoning stuff in to pummel Enishiro. Animating is hard!

— But even then, the actual blows dealt to Enishiro are just these translucent puffy balls that magically appear over Enishiro’s body.

— Where’s the rest of the gang? Outta juice. Not a single person brought a charger? Sheesh. (Yes, I know that’s not how it actually works.)

— So of course, the savior is the person you least expect: the coward! Or most expected because they foreshadowed it. Eh, it doesn’t matter.

— Again, animating is hard: instead of showing this huge ice… thing shatter upon impact, we’ll just have bits of ice fly out instead. You can infer that the thing broke when it touched the coward’s shield. I forget his name, so he’ll just be the coward from here on out.

— Since Ashina couldn’t give us a proper, momentum-killing backstory, the coward has to contribute his own. If the headphones didn’t already clue you in, he uses music to block out the negativity in his life, i.e. as a shield. Brilliantly literal!

— So with the coward’s help, Enishiro can afford to throw the punch of all punches… at a clone, sadly. Welp, this is the 11th episode, so we can’t go winning battles just yet.

— Especially not without the power of friendship! Yay, we get to work together with the class that looks down on us and would probably spit on our corpses if given the opportunity!

— Elsewhere, Haijima is… uh, doing her very best.

— God, I can’t wait for this show to be over.