Well, this was indeed way funnier again, LOL
, so I guess I don't mind the previous ep. as a setup (especially since the buildup from there all the way to that
SPOILER: Highlight text to read: hilarious punchline (ROTFL! 
) at the end of this one was just perfect. When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace episode 8:
BWAHAHAHAHA!!
Oh man, this episode was such a delicious
SPOILER: Highlight text to read: troll and yet actually good in its own right, all at the same time! 
First it's got a somewhat-Kill-la-Kill-styled battle to kick the episode off (as opposed to the art style they've been using until now), then it's SUDDENLY PLOT (...which was actually surprisingly logical, all things considered), then
SPOILER: Highlight text to read: Hatoko is apparently back with no fanfare whatsoever (but then that turns out to have been a false assumption, since it's revealed a few scenes later that all of that was actually flashback!), then that scene when Hajime met Andou and is talking on the phone gets some even-more-amusing context, then more SRS BSNS, then the whole thing with Hajime and Hatoko is (pretty hilariously ) explained, then there's Sayumi's (also actually-pretty-logical) solution, then a sweet reunion (including Tomoyo confessing her secret to help Hatoko feel better, and Andou somewhat making up for things by not only apologizing profusely but also explaining how grateful he is... which then of course gets too sappy for him to handle and it devolves back into chuuni-speak again, although this time Hatoko didn't mind 
), and *then,* to top it all off,
SPOILER: Highlight text to read: trying to explode open a bag of chips apparently activated the next stage of Andou's power, ROTFL!! This was easily the best episode of the series so far (and in fact it actually just made me upgrade its MAL rating by a point, too!). 
I am heartily enjoying this, and look forward to whatever happens next!Rage Of Bahamut: Genesis, episode 7 recap:
Sadly, this week just featured a recap, and apparently there was nothing in it to spice it up, either (as some recaps do), so I didn't bother, LOL.
Really looking forward to this show getting back to business next week, though! Psycho-Pass 2 episode 7:
*rant incoming...*
...Alright; I was tolerant with the writing in this season until now, because I knew that S2 had two completely different writers (Tow Ubukata and Jun Kumagai) than the two who wrote S1 (Gen Urobuchi and Makoto Fukami). And I was also willing to (mostly) overlook S2's unfortunately really-rather-bad character- and dialogue-writing, and even some of its plot and logic holes, until now because I was being decently entertained by some of the suspense. However, that has all changed now, thanks to this episode. Explanation: S1 had made it pretty darn clear that a character's Psycho-Pass/hue was based on some sort of brainwave/stress scan. As for S2, I could believe that whatever magical drugs Kamui was making up could alter this (since that could certainly make scientific sense), but drugs aside, this episode apparently 'revealed' that simply
SPOILER: Highlight text to read: transplanting a bunch of random organs + face from a 'clear' character into/onto an 'unclear' character will 'upgrade' the 'unclear' character's hue to 'clear.' And that makes absolutely no sense, either scientifically or in-universe (unless it was the
SPOILER: Highlight text to read: brain itself that was transferred, of course, but that's not what was said nor shown; and, anyway, that would still be the same person then,
SPOILER: Highlight text to read: just in a different body, not a completely *different* person, as was also said/shown). In fact, the whole thing with Kamui just taking
SPOILER: Highlight text to read: Shisui's eye to make the Dominator recognize him as her made no sense, either; but I was willing to suspend my disbelief for it until further explanation appeared. Now that it has-- complete with saying that mere
SPOILER: Highlight text to read: ('bio') contact lenses will work the same, besides! 
-- it was just too much for my suspension of disbelief to handle. 
And to top it all off, adding to the destruction of my suspension of disbelief in this ep. were the facts that, #1, even multiple characters pointed out how illogical Sybil was being about this whole thing (especially when compared to Sybil's thoughts, abilities and actions in S1)-- to her/their/its/whatever's face, no less!-- and still the 'answer' was unsatisfactory; and #2, that *no one* on the team even thought to type "Kamui" into a search online this whole time that people were mentioning it? Dude didn't even bother to change his name-- it was right there for them to have Googled (or whatever the Sybil equivalent is) at any time! 
Oh yeah, and then the whole thing with Akane's grandmother was anticlimactic and weird, there was some really random exposition (in really odd places...), and just to give some pure annoyance there was Mika blaming poor Hinakawa (who was surprisingly adorable in this ep., BTW ) for not doing something that he actually *DID* do-- twice!!
SPOILER: Highlight text to read: (He not only sent her the info {checking your inbox is part of your job, moron...}, he actually did try to tell her verbally when they were at the scene, but she told him to shut up then, and he's not only shy to begin with but has to obey his Inspector, so he did. It was entirely Mika's fault, and here she is foisting the blame on the poor guy for not doing his job when on his worst day he's about 8 decillion times more competent than she is?) Seriously, can't Tougane please just go ahead and off her already? 
...Now, that said, the episode wasn't *all* bad; I did like Akane's little 'space-out'/mental 'conversation' with
SPOILER: Highlight text to read: Kougami, some things were tied together and some questions were answered, and there was even an explanation for Kamui apparently having super-skills in everything (hint: he actually doesn't. ...Unless, of course, the inference I was supposed to get from that was
SPOILER: Highlight text to read: that there were *not* multiple people underneath those holos, but that literally *every* time you saw a holo, it was him; in which case, NVM and go back to the bad writing for that, too, again ). But, unfortunately, those few bright spots were not anywhere near enough to save the rest of this episode (nor the season, at this point). (I'll finish out the season just to get it over with, but I guess all I can have hope for now in terms of *good* writing is the upcoming Psycho-Pass movie, which the original two writers-- Urobuchi and Fukami-- are {thankfully} returning to, so hopefully that will provide a true sequel and then I can mostly forget about this supposed 'second season'... )And Mushishi Zoku Shou S2 episode 7:
Man, it really felt like you were there during that flood.
And wow, that was
SPOILER: Highlight text to read: one of the saddest episodes in a long time. 
(Not to imply that I think that's a bad thing, because I don't. Also, the end was somehow still kinda beautiful...)...So, my (updated) enjoyment-rankings now:
1: Mushishi Zoku Shou S2
2: Rage Of Bahamut: Genesis
3: When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace
4: Gugure! Kokkuri-san
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5Off the list: Psycho-Pass 2
Unfortunately, even 
This is in full-on trainwreck-mode now. And that ANN reviewer and I (plus about 5 pages' worth of commenters {...well, minus one misguided 'fan' and one obvious troll...}) are still so much on the same wavelength that I'm not even going to bother writing up a huge rant on everything that was wrong with this episode and instead just let 
, the dialogue itself was interesting, and seemed to confirm my (amused) suspicions that 
