English Dub Review: Miss Kuroitsu from the Monster Development Department “The Monster in a Perpetual Cycle of Death and Rebirth Struggles to Break Its Chains Until Seduced by a Soul Entrapped by Destiny”

Overview (Spoilers Below):

Kuroitsu creates a new monster, Hydra, to take out Blader. Unfortunately, budgetary concerns have caused most of the new monster’s functionality to be omitted, and Blader appears to be in a big hurry!

Our Take: 

Agastia is at it again with their complicated monster designing process. This time, we have another half-girl, half-monster creature that’s more adorable than dangerous. Given its context and traits seen in previous anime shows, this doesn’t surprise me a lot.

As usual, this episode happens to throw in plenty of things at once in the span of 23 minutes. In one part, we have Kuroitsu attempting to perfect a hydra girl despite the organization’s budget and time restraints. Then, it focuses a bit on Blader’s real identity, Kenji, as he struggles to balance working at his part-time job with being a superhero. Lastly, it shifted its attention to Cannon Thunderbird working at an Agastia-affiliated amusement park called “Leafland”. How original.

It also showcases another humorous moment featuring Karen Mizuki, who was first introduced in last week’s episode. Mizuki is a contract worker who moved to Tokyo for work and winded up working as a low-level henchman for different villains. I couldn’t help but feel that Mizuki is only seen as a comic relief that doesn’t serve a point to the series’ arc so far. It’s still amusing to watch, but I’m hoping she gets to do more than just being a one-note character soon.

The episode features some new characters both from the hero and villain sides. One of them is Hydra, a monster girl with four extra venom-less heads that often bicker with one another. Hydra seems to be the youngest (and the most harmless) of the bunch compared to the other monsters they’ve built. She’s pretty likable as far as I’m concerned, even though she keeps losing against Blader. It also introduces two new superheroes in the form of a pair of magical girls. Like how Blader rips off the Power Rangers, the two superhero girls unapologetically resemble Sailor Moon, mainly regarding their transformation. Next thing we know, it’ll have another superhero or monster that rips off Sonic the Hedgehog.

Overall, the show’s third episode continues its weird concept with another entertaining series of monstrous mishaps. The introduction of new characters was the only good part of the episode despite the two magical girls being Sailor Moon ripoffs. Other than that, it’s just another diverting monster-of-the-week chapter in the daily life of a monster developer.