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So, first of all, I love how the show cheats with Inu and Kiji by shoving the helmets right up into the camera so they don't have to render the CGI models. It's completely unsubtle but charming.

I wasn't really worried that this episode would be less weird, but I'm still relieved to see that it's par for the course. I assume that Haruka will, eventually, realize who Momoi is and stop pledging allegiance to literally every other character, but I'm willing to let the show run with this bit for as long as it can. I like that we're slowly assembling the rest of the cast, it's a nice way to give everyone a chance to develop on their own instead of trying to juggle them all at once.

I know we'll never get it, but I would love to spend an episode going into the lives of Momoi's entrance crew. What do they do in their down time? How did they get this job? How many of them are liberal arts majors who couldn't find any other work?