Alright, one goddess to go, let’s get to it.
Episode 7
0:24 – What Elsie’s been up to: Established
4:56 – I like how Keima himself has no silly pride outside of his game-mastery. Since he’s not really dealing with emotional issues any more, he’s basically just making himself a different kind of moe for each of the girls
9:15 – His dark powers grow stronger
10:22 – Think faster, Lelouch
12:24 – Wow, he’s really reaching. Well, everyone in this world is a stereotype anyway, I’m sure it’ll work out
13:19 – I figured after the last two episodes that we were done with all the wacky double-date shenanigans, but they are seriously committing to this one. But that particular romcom scenario never tends to end well…
13:55 – I don’t even… See, normally these scenes play out with the protagonist (man or woman, this cliche is gender-neutral) simply trying to keep the two dates from running into each other. Here, he’s perfectly happy trying to seduce everyone simultaneously. Goddamn, Keima
15:14 – This scene is amazing
18:44 – I think he’s earned a beating this time
18:57 – Fortunately for Keima, characters in this game-world are entirely incapable of reading moods or subtext
And Done
Welp, Keima’s fucked. He got too ambitious and deservedly had it blow up in his face. Ayumi being an adult about the situation is going to make his secret harem ending pretty difficult – apparently dating three members of the same band is just one too many.
Great episode. It was one of the funniest of the season, both because he and Ayumi have a great dynamic and because the wacky misunderstanding double-booked-date hat trick is inherently ridiculous. That approach also answered my biggest complaint about last week’s episode, which was that it played its simple romcom narrative extremely straight – this week started off with one cliche (the sick visit), rudely merged it into another (the double-booked-date), and then had Keima actually attempt to double-win the date, which is completely insane and also extremely Keima. Better luck next time, Lelouch.
Keima is the best.