In which Eu kills Kyoko dozens of times, Kyoko kills Eu who loses all her clothes, and Ayumu kills Kyoko dozens of times more (and Kyoko also loses all her clothes).

I love crazy psycho bitches as much as everyone else, but Kyoko just isn’t working for me. The whole way the crazy psycho bitch works is through contrast: she is usually demure and friendly, but then BIG EYES and BLOODY GRIN. A good example is Rena from Higurashi. She’s usually quite chipper, with occasional creepy moments to alert you that something is seriously wrong. Kyoko’s problem is that she didn’t go through this whole development : she jumped immediately from sad girl in hospital to date in the graveyard to BIG EYES. There’s none of the tension of wondering when she’s going to snap.

This episode was fairly boring (way too few jokes) and a bit preachy, but they actually do have a moderately interesting plot so it wasn’t all bad. They just need to balance the story and silliness a bit better – it seems like the show tends to make the two types of episodes nearly mutually exclusive (or exactly half-and-half like the whale episode), when to make it most effective they should be intermingled (see: star driver). And yes, in case you’re wondering, I’m also embarrassed that I just used the word “chipper” in a sentence.