Drama Queen of Ambrosia

 confession: i actually sort of half-watched the last three episodes in this season last night, so these are not first impressions. but i guess since this is a rewatch, they were never first impressions to begin with? anyway, let's enter the realm of one of my favorite anime finales of all time.



overall rating: 7/10

the verdict is: they took too long to show me kiyama again, but i forgive them because of what's coming.

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first i'll address all the episodes that came in between this. they were side stories about that one antiskill lady, the dorm mistress, and the tokiwadai dorms which i guess was just an excuse to draw a bunch of girls in maid dresses?? honestly, they were very good filler episodes and they added a lot of development and depth to the supporting cast. plus, you can tell they're planting the seeds for some kind of payoff in the main story, but it's not exactly clear until they actually make it relevant. my only complaint is that putting all these filler episodes in one after another starts to get pretty stale and i got impatient a number of times for something to actually happen.

hallelujah, in episode 20 something finally happens.



uiharu gets a new roommate named haruue eri, who is the girl who lost her locket in the antiskill lady's episode. from what we saw for a brief second in the episode where she was originally introduced, haruue has a photo of the little headband girl from kiyama's flashbacks. she bonds with the main cast, they go to a fireworks display, and the main plot starts kicking in with an explanation for the earthquakes that have been happening. (and THIS is where telestina comes in, my bad.)

overall score: 6/10

uncomfortable moments: like 2

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summary: judgement investigates an esper-hunting gang known as skillout, a "reckless group of level 0s". 

overall rating: 6/10

uncomfortable moments: 2 (juuuust kuroko)

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what the hell is this?
i want to get back into the groove of actually blogging (NOT tumblr-style), so i figured since i'm really into watching old anime i used to like, why not start posting about it? a certain scientific railgun was my favorite anime when i was younger, but now it's kind of. eh. but i still feel very strongly about it.

why are you starting on episode 13?
that's just the episode i'm on right now. i really don't want to start over again.



summary: this is. the beach episode. you know, how every anime needs to have one? essentially the entire cast gets invited to model swimsuits. this episode is allllll fanservice.

overall score: 2/10
i almost skipped this one entirely. i could have, with zero consequence. but i didn't, and ONLY because i love uiharu in this episode.

uncomfortable moments: 6 (mostly kuroko being creepy + weird comments about boobs, but it IS the beach episode so i expected this number to be high)

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