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Episode 3: Nice to see so many returning characters already, even if I totally confused Mopey Fish Girl for Kickass Knife Girl at first (in my defense, the former has different hair and it's been a year). I'm really surprised by Mopey Fish Girl's new role; that is totally not where I expected the character to end up.

I'm intrigued by the developments with Haruka. I guess he wasn't just living in the wild all this time. I'm really curious to see what he was doing with Iyu's father.

Most of the new characters are growing on me already. Chihiro is still a little underdeveloped, but I'm finding myself starting to like him more and more (even if he's apparently getting his sweaters from Micchy). Iyu is my favorite new character, though. She kind of reminds me of what Makai no Hana was trying to do with Mayuri, only it's being done competently here.

As before, I'm continuing to be bemused by Captain Codeine's bizarrely detached performance.