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Imagine a world. A world where there are ninjas who are something like goblins, who shoot curved arrows and travel around Europe in a submarine. There they meet a white-haired lady with a Dutch name who is rescued by two seeming Englishmen from a retirement home on a Tortuga-like island, accompanied by a Pomeranian. Random excursions in the company of a terminator and pirates on a quest pilgrimage await them for a painting of a La Puzzle doll and for a block of glass in search of the mysteries of a world no one can remember. Fena and Brule exchange a bonk, dance and hair; the end. I understand your confusion and I ask the same question you are asking: Where is James Bond, Formula One, and the fight for Jupiter's independence? In all honesty, the script is the kind of drivel that would frighten the inhabitants of Lunik IX. I respect the screenwriter's opulent creativity, her grandiose vision, but you can't come up with 23 mysteries and 59 conspiracies if you can't pull off a single one. Or, alternatively, the main character solves them in a way that makes Indiana Jones, da Vinci, and Einstein look like total losers. The vast majority of the characters are about as important as a salt shaker in the desert, the villain is a hard-luck child with a poster fetish, and in general a bunch of them disappear off the screen faster than the French out of the war. Logic and physics are out the window - for example, a character calmly paddles a sailboat. Treating an injury? Who on earth has time for that, right? The character motivations were running sushi, I didn't know where my head was from that story and the only somewhat sensible element was the more tender romance present, which admittedly doesn't deliver anything we haven't seen before and was overdone with pathos in places, but I found moments that appealed to me. I didn't mind the incorporated elements of adventure and the feel of the western hemisphere. I was very pleased with the almost literally Disney-esque artwork, but that's finito with the list of pluses. Next time it might want to get its thoughts in order, organize the art direction a bit more moderately, so that the phenotype of similar anime will be successful and then I won't have to blow-dry it like this with my undisguised disappointment (besides, longer hair is easier to blow-dry!). You can keep the empty vases. A barely managed 3 stars (2021.10.25)

If Mr. Shitan hadn't been unnecessarily blathering for half the episode, it's actually a pleasantly emotional episode. Even so, for the first time since the opening episodes, I was decently blown away. (2021.10.02)