Please note that I’m working with this based on the raw since a subtitled version hasn’t been released yet. I’m noting this since I had said that I’d only write reviews after a subtitled version has been released. However, since the raw for episode 8 has been released and I’m going to watch that once it’s done, I wanted to get my thoughts of this episode down before then. Note that I have no plans on rewriting a review for this episode after the subtitled version gets released.

To put it quite simply, this episode was absolutely hilarious. I think that even people that don’t know any Japanese would be able to get some good laughs out of this one. The dialog was great and while the scenes that were in this episode was what you’d expect from a typical “amusement park trip gone wrong” scenario, the execution of the content was just absolutely brilliant.

The art quality was very nice and consistent in this episode and the music selection was very smart. It was appropriate for the scene in a way but it also made it even funnier once you recall what other scenes they had used that particular music track for in the past as you then realize that the two don’t actually align.

In conclusion, I would highly recommend this episode to anyone out there that wants to laugh some hearty laughs. There were practically no flaws with this one, simply a complete episode of non-stop awesomeness. We’ll be having a flashback episode with Margery next episode. I don’t know anything about this backstory, so it should be a good watch.

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