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So Rei’s Fire Soul cut the hair off from the girls so they can recover.

Well, I mean, it DID. You very clearly weakened it and saved the other girls. I know it might not be the incredible damage output you were hoping for, but it did very much still damage her.

Guess WHO!

That’s right, it’s M’Knight! Come to sorta save the day.

Wow his monologue is long today. It’s monolong.

And just like that, all of Rei’s hard work are throw in to the air and destroyed. Siren, you better run. Rei is going to kill you.

The question is, will she get to sing the whole song, or will the Monster of the Week decide to interrupt it?

Her dress is lovely!

I was going to post about how the crowd is going nuts for Rei, but then I paused it on this amazing face and I had to share that instead

Sorry, Rei, but it looks like your performance is going to be cut short!

A Siren, eh? Interesting choice... you’d think they’d save this monster for a more, I don’t know, water-based episode? Like at a pool or a beach? Not at a land-locked festival with no large bodies of water. I guess the Siren doesn’t need actual water to move in.

Case in point, she swims through the air. It’s one of those flying fish I read about in school!

Please tell me they’re going to be fashion models

LMAO get rekt

This just got a million times better

While Grandpa is being a total creep, the girls are going around to the different areas and having a blast. Some sort of dating game, golfing, wearing Yukatas. Seems like fun!

I think I found our alien friends

Oh, ok, they were bringing Rei lunch. That was nice of them!

Rei’s giving a quick song rehearsal with lyrics that are... bad. They’re bad.

The jokes in this show are perfectly timed and I love every one of them

Oh, wow! Ok, despite the first line of the song’s lyrics not being that great, it takes a lot of time and effort to not just write the lyrics but the music as well! Props to you, Rei.

Did Rei set up the entire festival? I thought this was a school-wide thing, set up by a principal or something. I don’t really know a whole lot about them, so forgive me for any misgivings I have.

Oh

Rei you could just make a mixtape like a normal person

So while the girls are talking inside, An and Ail are outside creeping from a tree. I’m just imagining some kid below looking up, seeing these two, and thinking “The cultural festival gets weirder every year”.

Oh, good, you decided to move away from kindergartners and babies. That’s a step up. I guess.

Luna don’t forget who changes your litterbox

These outfits are 150% ridiculous. This is B-Movie scifi musical material. And I Love Them.

They were just thrown out onto the stage, but look at them! They’re having so much fun!

And so the episode ends with Rei singing a (better) version of her song, the girls sitting around a bonfire, and the day is saved once more.

Overall, a pretty standard episode that had a decent chuckle or two and a power upgrade. It was nice to see Rei in the spotlight of an episode for once. That said, nothing really stuck out to me to make me go back and watch this episode again. It’s not bad, but it’s just - I dunno. I kind of want to see a lot more of An and Ail, those two are my favorites right now.

Overall, I’d have to give this episode a Meh. score. It’s not bad, it’s not great, it’s just there.

heck yeah

this looks metal

as hell

Fire Soul Bird, huh? So it can dodge around water based attacks? That’s a good upgrade, I’d say.

I really, really like this shot. It’s not that it’s visually creative, or tells a lot with so little, or anything like that - it’s just really well done. I can imagine that making backgrounds blurry and then bringing them into focus might be trickier in animation, so it’s cool to see the effort put into it.