[DreamSword]

Episode 9: The Never Never

Well this episode was incredibly predictable.

And really, I'm not exactly sure what else to say other than that? The episode isn't really bad per se, but it's not anything super incredible either.

The set up is that the crew reaches the Never Never Valley where the Bunyip Man, someone who's supposedly learned how to tame Kaiju, lives. He says he can help cure Boy of the Kaiju Tick venom, but things go south fast.

And yeah, that right there should tell you basically everything you need to know. Like, the second Mei started talking about the "alternative option" with the Kaiju Sisters, I knew exactly where this episode was gonna go, to exactly where it was gonna end up.

It's very much a transitional episode to serve as a way to get our heroes to interact directly with the Kaiju Sisters, and to that end, yeah, sure, it works, but it's also not very engaging. There's no real character drama or unique interaction, there's no shock value to the death or destruction that occurs, and outside of one sequence(using the chain whip to surf around the valley), the action isn't much to speak of either.

Overall it's just a thoroughly meh episode. Hopefully a necessary one for episodes to come.