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Dusk Beyond the End of the World Ep. 4: Great, a double date

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The cold opening tells us nothing we don’t already know: Yugure understands perfectly what a marriage is, she’s devoted to Akira and Akira only, and she loves the fact that he’s loyal to the one he loves even though it’s not her. Nevertheless, Yugure goes on a date with Kalcrom just to make Akira jealous. Before anyone else can properly react, Fides also shows up to drag Akira on a date as well. Yay, we have ourselves a double date. Aren’t you excited? I’m totally am. In the end, Yugure ends up being more jealous of Fides than Akira is of Kalcrom. To top it all off, they even allow Amoru to tag along. Sigh, this isn’t exactly what I had in mind when I was looking forward to a post-apocalyptic story about AI and androids.

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The Dark History of the Reincarnated Villainess Ep. 3: Iana and her big, dumb mouth

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These days, the sisters have been getting along swimmingly. After all, real Konoha is so enamored with her ideal self that it’s almost embarrassing. So far, it doesn’t seem as though ideal Konoha has any flaws whatsoever. She’s infinitely nice and infinitely forgiving. She’d probably be infinitely powerful as well if she was allowed to awaken to her powers in this timeline. Basically, real Konoha wrote a Mary Sue character. But that’s understandable, because so far, we’ve only seen flashbacks of real Konoha as a child. I don’t expect a kid to write an interesting, nuanced character. I can’t help but wonder, then, if ideal Konoha will ever change and evolve. As we keep tracing a path through real Konoha’s fiction, will ideal Konoha reflect the former’s growth as a writer? Will ideal Konoha suddenly become more than this two-dimensional Mary Sue that we see before us? After all, the boytoys in the story are evolving in their own way — sorta.

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The Fated Magical Princess: Who Made Me a Princess Ep. 6: A weirdo wizard poses as a young boy

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Athanasia falls into a coma as a result of her overflowing magic, and the only person who can save her is obviously Lucas, the mysterious wizard who has been showing up lately. But does he really need to do it in his chibi-form? He eventually convinces Claude that he needs to stick around in order to continue monitoring the princess. After all, we have no idea if her magic might go haywire again. And maybe it’s less creepy for a boy wizard to hang around a little girl all day long, eating sweets and pastries with her. But at the end of the day, there’s still a grown man inside that boyish form — a grown man who is centuries old. Look, I just hope he doesn’t become a love interest. We know from the ED that Lucas in his current form will “grow up” with the princess. Just be her tutor and nothing more.

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Sanda Ep. 3: Answers leading to even more questions

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Recently, things keep falling down around Sanda. The kids speculate that this phenomenon occurs whenever a kid lies near him. Amaya further theorizes that this is how Santa can tell the difference between nice and naughty children. Essentially, whenever Santa nears a naughty child, things will magically fall to the ground or break. Um, sure, I guess that’s one way to avoid just giving Santa omnipotence about everyone’s behavior. Just earlier, Sanda had an incident with a fellow classmate. He plucked a stray strand of hair from her head, but a pencil case started jostling when she said thanks. It then completely fell to the ground when she called him sweet. I can only assume that she secretly despises him. To be fair, even if someone has something in their hair, I wouldn’t get into their personal space and pluck it myself. I dunno if I’d be grossed out if anyone does that to me, but I would definitely find it weird.

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