Board Thread:Anime/@comment-25730832-20150203164929/@comment-0332288-20150207041634

Probably best episode thus far, after the cheap forced death in Ep3 and the far too over-the-top silliness in Ep4 that barely brought any closure to Kisaragi's death anyway.

This new Fleet is what I wanted to see, a dysfunctional functional team that normally can't get along but when the time calls for it they work wonderfully well together. There was a decent little drama moment when the Third Torp Squad disbanded, enough to instill some feels but not shoving it in viewers' faces. Humor was good without going into childish nonsense territory with character conflicts and the Flagship audition montage (those explosions would make Bomber Grape proud), and while cliche, Fubuki becoming flagship kind of makes sense considering she's the only sane girl amongst the 6. Leading's not about being the strongest, it's about being able to work with people's strengths and weaknesses to the team's advantage, and who better to take up that role than the most neutral and level-headed of the group? Also, passive aggressive Shoukaku. All my yes.

The action scene, while short, was decent. I mean it's just a Chi and two Destroyers what did you expect? I'm genuinely surprised the Chi even bothered to DODGE a hit instead of sitting there like a retard like every single Abyssal up to this point (excluding elite DD that tried to eat Fubuki's face).

I feel like every single episode is going to run on a different formula. 1 was balanced action with bits of moe, 2 was a feel-good training montage all about overwhelming positivity like a sports anime, 3 was heavy feels to the point of forced, 4 was...kid's show level random humor, and 5 is more teenage level slice-of-life in a military setting. And considering the stars of episode 6, I expect THAT to be full on diabetes moe pandering.