[DreamSword]

Act 40

This episode had me really worried at first.

You all remember episode 23? The one I hated with a burning passion and I still recommend that everyone outright skip?

Well at first, this episode seemed to be a direct follow up to that one. And it kind of is, but the direction that it takes is instead very different than what I assumed it would, and that was very much appreciated.

The grand majority of the episode is about eh girls basically just all having fun together as a group in an attempt to give Mina a ray of hope in her life. And exemplifying that is how it's an actual fun thing to see play out. Not just the games themselves, but the character humor involved to.

It makes me wonder if the director just legit told the girls to have fun playing around on set, because it seemed like all of actresses were having legit fun filming this one. Add in a little sprinkling of Dark Kingdom plot and this episode made for a surprisingly good time for me, despite my initial apprehension. I even liked the little music video at the end.

Before closing this out, there is one thing I'd like to note though, since I don't remember if I did so before: It's easy to see that the monsters in this show were about the very last thing that Kobayashi was prioritizing when scripting this show, because alot of times, they really do just exist for the sake of a climax. It's very much exemplified in this episode, where a few mooks just kinda show up out of nowhere despite the episode being practically over with.

I personally think it works out for the type of show that PGSM has been proving itself to be, but I could see some being a bit disappointed in that specific aspect.

Anyway, yeah, fun episode.