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I posted this on the episode three discussion thread, and since I was SO disappointed and annoyed as I say in the post, I wanted to share with you all right here. Now to be fair, I wasn’t a bit of a bad mood today because I seriously overslept, after struggling to get to sleep to begin with, but even an episode two when I had plenty of rest and stuff, it was starting to grind on my nerves. But not enough to justify dropping it at that point. So I gave it a second chance if you will, and yet I was not rewarded for my forgiveness. In fact anything but. Here’s the posting I’m talking about where I explain myself:

“There’s only one word that I can think of to describe this episode: annoying. And what a shame because the series had enormous potential for me, but this episode was so annoying, I couldn’t even get halfway because how annoying it was. The main character, as usual for that stupid cliché, gets constantly beating up and dumped on, to such an excessive degree. And what is with that priestess woman having an unlimited stomach? And they drug it out intentionally when they were at that restaurant which just made it even more annoying. And after eating all that food, she was still hungry? Another reason why it’s annoying.

I mean, I can deal with what Kazuya went through for the first two episodes, though what happened during those two, especially in the second episode was at least a little bit annoying. But that paled in comparison, it didn’t even come close to how bad it was in this episode. Now I was skimming through some reviews of the series, and there was one person who gave it a three who said that it was just cliché after cliché as well as excessive fan service and stuff like that. And at least it wasn’t totally excessive thus far in to the series, so that’s definitely one good aspect of it. Besides, I actually like fan service, and found some ax specs of it quite welcoming.

Overall, I was extremely disappointed in this episode, and again, I couldn’t even get halfway because I was so annoyed by it that I just turned it off. And what a shame because the overall spiritual nature of this anime is definitely spot on, and yet that stuff, during the series thus far anyway, had to be wasted with this extremely over-the-top very juvenile BS.”

I hope you can understand, and like I said, I even gave it a second chance when I was considering dropping it earlier. But this is not the sort of stuff that I look forward to seeing in anime, in fact quite the opposite. And like I said, considering the religious/spiritual nature of the show, that’s why I’m really infuriated by this. I hope that explains things better.