05.07
Hi, Not-chi!
Writing about this show is like pulling teeth. The lack of information about it outside of the staff made it seem kinda fun to do at first, but after three weeks of boring tedium spent with annoying characters who all wear eyeliner for no reason, the regret I feel in regards to not writing about Brynhildr in the Darkness (which is growing more and more idiotic every week) escalates.
Make your own damn conclusions...
Well what happens this week on that most exciting action packed anime M3!…nothing really. The exploration team, now renamed Team Gargouille because, in the words of American Philosopher Dr. Stephen T. Colbert, “its French bitch!”, after two straight days of alternatively standing around doing nothing and getting sexually harassed, is finally ready to go into the Lightless Realm! Who clearly ISN’T ready is Heito who is still out cold from the Argent; and Akashi, who’s being tortured by the show’s resident Ryoma Sengoku clone, and vomiting profusely no thanks to the Argent.
Don't step in the white stuff...
But what’s really the point of this episode is to introduce (badly) the final addition to the Gargouilles… GOLIAT-no its just some meek girl named Sasame who doesn’t talk too much and will only serve as a part of the Akashi/”Bitch-Chan” Emiru love triangle. We’ve seen her before actually. Last week, Akashi saw her singing “the song of death” at the same moment the exploration team’s former coach was killed by the Giant Beer Can Admonition. Speaking of which… its back and manages to kill the Principle of the school this time, there’s a brief fight, Akashi finally figures out how to use the Argent, and the episode ends. Well that was a waste of 23 minutes…
He got scissored!
The phrase “more of the same” does not begin to describe M3’s stagnation. Its pretty much gone nowhere from episode 1, only adding additional characters who only equate to cliched archetypes (this week we get the “Mystery girl/Rei clone” in the form of Sasame). I’m not exactly sure what Mari Okada was trying to accomplish here but it only seems to have succeeded in creating all out boredom for me with barely anything to remark on in these write-ups. Oh well…
3.5/10