Episode 5 – AND DA AND

It’s gotten to the point where I have to act like an extremely critical critic hat Defects are discovered every week He Dahe This helps balance out all the praise I have for each episode. To my chagrin, science saru By delivering an essentially flawless fifth episode in a row, I have once again thwarted my efforts at more constructive criticism. In the end I only found one One element of the episode didn’t work for me: the montage of the last few seconds felt abrupt. This isn’t the strongest edit of the series.

Yes, I’m well aware that minor complaints about a couple of transitional frameworks are hardly compelling criticisms, but what on earth am I supposed to do at this point? The whole “Like, where’s your ball!?” is hilarious, cute, beautifully animated, and expertly paced; it’s a chapter He Dahe The story is directed with such weapons-grade craftsmanship that even if There are larger elements in the script or production that don’t work, so it’s impossible to notice them. It does what all good entertainment does, it keeps your heart so busy pumping your fist and cheering for what’s on the screen that it impairs your brain’s ability to detect and evaluate flaws. This may be a personal kryptonite for critics like me, but it was a damn good episode of television.

From the beginning, this episode shows a He Daheof Its biggest strength, though, is how effectively it balances Momo and O’Callen’s dual lead roles in this weird and wacky hybrid sci-fi/action/romance mashup. The current crisis in the plot is the case of O’Cullen’s stolen red beans, which means our hapless hero might get some edge in focus and screen time. Still, you never get the sense that we’re only experiencing the story through his eyes. In an almost dreamy montage of O’Callen and Momo looking for each other during their lunch break, a sequence that feels ripped straight from the great rom-com playbook, we dig the Both Thanks to a clever combination of editing and editing, the protagonist Voiceover. While the two briefly pull away after an incredibly awkward first almost-kiss, the episode dwells on Momo’s conflicted guilt for bullying O’Callen just as we’re honing in on his stumbling, lonely confusion Same.

This is the kind of writing a good romance novel requires, because it allows us to see our protagonists as flawed, relatable individuals in their own right, even as we celebrate how lovable they are as a whole. They’re more powerful together than apart, even if that “power” has nothing to do with kicking aliens and/or ghosts. This episode sets up its authentic yet still wistful approach to young love so skillfully that you can almost Forget that one of our leads has been captured by the evil Nana from the underworld, and we’re bound to get into all kinds of weird mischief while trying to recover them.

This brings us to the more action-packed final third of the episode, which sees the O’Callen and Ayase clan transfer the lingering spirit of Turbo Granny into Lucky Cats so they can Interrogate the ghost and discover O’Callen’s location Thursday has been hidden. Again, the pacing here is amazing, and the episode never gets bogged down in all the necessary exposition and forgets about the fun of it. The whole thing was probably worth the price of admission just to marvel at Momo’s awesome face as she writhed on the floor and laughed at O’Callen’s devastating humiliation.

We’ve got another great five-star series on our hands. Go and do the math science saru Will be able to take an already great comic and make it even better. In between, blue box, The elusive samuraiand Monster No. 82024 for Shonen Jump adapt.

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He Dahe Currently streaming on Crunchyroll and Netflix.

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