Again, the bad decision Sasaki made regarding Elsa came back to bite him in the ass. I’m sort of glad that Akutsu was not incompetent, he did find out about their secret warehouse.
The boss should have watched Frieren instead of drawing from video games, we would have had a much harder fight to view 🤣
If I were Sasaki I would feel no incentive to rescue the Bureau, they first tried to put cameras in his house, was monitoring him with drones, and had just now sold him out to Shizuka’s boss.
What did the Bureau want anyway? “This place is going to become a war zone and we are flying you right in?” He should just stop using his other abilities (he should be hiding them anyway) and just let the magical girls trash the place. With any luck, they would be too busy dealing with the aftermath to leave him alone with more time for his otherworldly enterprise.
wjs018@ani.social 7 months ago
A Futari-focused episode today. She was attacked by a hit squad sent from her previous gang. However, Peeps is able to fend them off while Sasaki came to an accord with the opposing leader. One thing I wasn’t clear on is how everybody here actually works for the Bureau. So, does this mean this guy is undercover as a gang leader leaking intel to the Bureau? Or, does he run the gang and uses his Bureau job as a way to gather intel about other psychics. It doesn’t make a lot of sense to me yet.
I was expecting this danger Futari was in to be magical girl related. However, it seems that the magical girls are now after the Bureau itself. I am probably most glad that we are going to be involving Hoshizaki again. I think she is probably one of my favorite characters that has come out of this decidedly weird show.
Some other random observations:
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thegreatloofa@lemmy.world 7 months ago
While I’ve been overall enjoying Sasaki and Peeps, it’s definitely trying to do too much with the runtime it’s got. I’ve never read any of the source material so I don’t know what it could/should have been but I can feel that it’s fumbling some of the many balls it is juggling.
wjs018@ani.social 7 months ago
Yes, I completely agree. In the beginning of the season, it was kind of exciting, all the new genres and story hooks that were introduced. However a lot of them feel undercooked and like afterthoughts (at least in the anime) with the benefit of hindsight near the end of the season.
Draegur@lemm.ee 7 months ago
pretty sure she’s the same magical girl as we saw the previous time. You can tell because of her outfit: she’s still wearing the pelt of the fairy creature that infused her with power as a scarf, just as she described previously.
wjs018@ani.social 7 months ago
Yes, but there is a second one now too along the right edge of the screen. I don’t think we have seen her, unless I am just misremembering.
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