[Fish Sandwich]

Hey everyone, guess what time it is!



It's still time for Buster. Actually, it's ALWAYS time for Buster.

But putting that aside for a second, I've got an episode of Zi-O to talk about. I feel that overall this arc is probably one of the weaker ones we've gotten lately, especially when it comes to advancing the overall plot of the show. I think everyone and their grandmother could already tell something shady was going on with Lame!Woz and Geiz Revive, which makes a lot of the hint dropping here come off more limp than I think was intended. By the end of the episode, OG!Woz has resolved to do... something... to prevent his less cool counterpart from screwing around with the timeline any more. But as far as I can tell, nothing besides the fact that this has already happened twice pushed him to that decision. Similarly, even though I love the way they bounced off one another, the drama between Sougo and Geiz doesn't offer a whole lot new.

There's stuff happening here, but the writing is way more thin than I'm used to with Zi-O. It's still a fun pair of episodes, don't get me wrong, and there's tons of stuff I loved, like Quiz working his question shtick into a dramatic scene (which just like some of Shinobi's scenes, genuinely feels like the kind of thing that would actually happen in their hypothetical shows), but this is the first time I've felt like Zi-O is just spinning its wheels, and as a standalone story I don't think it's quite interesting or clever enough to make up for that.