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I kind of consider this and the next episode to be the final part of a trilogy started with Ryuki's Megumi arc and continued with Blade's amnesia arc: the mid-series comic relief episodes where Inoue just goes full-on ridiculous. It's the final show to have dedicated screwball episodes and it's probably the most aggressively silly of the three.

I have been waiting to get to these episodes since you started the Kabuto thread and I have enjoyed them every bit as much as I did the first time. Everything about this arc is just so delightfully over-the-top and weird, from the crazy intense performance of the evil chef to the fact that it's an arc about an evil chef. What I really like is that it doesn't feel like a huge departure from normal Kabuto, it's just that certain elements and character traits are dialed up to 11. Kagami's dad judging a cooking contest in a cheap basement Kitchen Stadium? Not that much objectively weirder than anything else he's done. Him floating up into the sky on obvious wires while an inflatable halo awkwardly dangles over his head? Objectively weirder, but still incredibly funny.

Meanwhile, they also manage to slip Kagami discovering that Tsurugi is a Worm in, which is actually a very serious and major moment.