Night Wizard 7- /flag

Why have I made yet another post with a slash emote in the title? Well perhaps I’ve just been playing too many MMOs lately. Either way, grinding gold is probably more enjoyable than most of this episode, maybe it was because I had just watched Koharubiyori before that and it didn’t have the same level of excitability. Anyways, the center piece of this episode was a Renji x Elis ice skating dayto of sorts, the only real plot development came at the very end.

After an opening of Akari floating in some liquid and getting some sort of maintenance, Akari moves in with the rest of them and they have a welcoming party. During the party Kirihito-douchebag shows up for no apparent reason to flirt with Elis. We eventually move on to a school ice skating trip for the second years (Akari, Renji, Elis). Of course Elis blows at ice skating so she has to get Renji to teach her, and of course she falls on him for an awkward moment. Eventually she skates on her own, and afterwards buys everyone cell phone straps to make them happy. The real action is the last minute or two, as in Anzelotte’s control center we find out shit is hitting the fan. Apparently Devil Lord’s other than Bell Zephyr have discovered that Elis is trying to gather the jewels and they are after her. Her subordinates report that emulators and other baddies are pouring into the real world from multiple points, it’s about to get nasty. Thank god, I was about to fall asleep.

Next Episode:

It looks like Renji and Elis get sent back through time somehow and are trapped there. Hopefully there will be some action there.

Impressions:

Now this show really needs character development, but if they are only capable of development like this then I prefer action every week. Overall it was pretty dull, your standard jokes around and awkward situations, I’m feeling really uninspired here. Seems pretty obvious to me we are looking at a Renji x Elis-type pairing at the end, there has been so little attention to Kureha that it would take a big revolution to get her to Elis’ level. That’s not such a bad thing however, as Kureha is kind of a boring osana najimi type that hasn’t show much uniqueness.

Despite my doom and gloom for the first 19 minutes, the end of the episode got me excited about what’s to come. With the massive amount of baddies invading the real world, I think the rest of the show will have plenty of action. Well, after apparently the next episode where they travel back in time (oooooook). No Yuko Goto in this episode unfortunately, and we have yet to see Kirihito get sliced in half, hopefully both developments come soon. Next week I’ll try to write something longer, assuming the show’s writers give me something to work with.