English Dub Review: Miss Kuroitsu from the Monster Development Department “The Very Concept of the Evil Being that Bewitches Souls Summons New Demons through the Chaos it Brings when it Drowns in Turmoil Over its Puzzling Existence”

Overview (Spoilers Below):

Agastia’s latest monster, Mummy, has Blader on the ropes… until a particular sight takes away her will to fight. Mummy wants to reject the role she was designed for and create a new lifestyle. But can a monster without a voice make a life… as an idol?!

Our Take: 

It’s always important to follow your dreams, no matter how tough they seem. However, we wish we could say the same for someone who’s monstrous in appearance. The plot in this episode features another monster-of-the-week scenario that doesn’t perform exactly as the development team intended. This time, it doesn’t take half of the episode’s 23-minute runtime to explore it.

The tenth episode introduces the latest monster in Agastia’s lineup: Mummy. Mummy is a mummified monster girl who comes equipped with counter blades. Unfortunately, she’s left without any vocal cords, so she resorts to writing to communicate with the team. Despite being designed to fight Blader, she dreams of becoming an idol, leaving Kuroitsu and the others to help make her dream come true. But not without the assistance of Immortal Camula and her pluripotent cells.

This is another episode that focuses only on one plot instead of two like the other ones. After last week’s disappointing set of misadventures, it’s nice to see the show attempting to provide this structure again, especially for a scenario like Mummy’s dream. It’s far from a great episode, but it does provide a plot that’s a bit more entertaining than the show’s ninth episode, even though it doesn’t have any new dance moves to show in its formula.

The moments that made it watchable consist of some tenderhearted scenes between Mummy and her “big brother” Wolf Bete and Mummy’s debut as an idol. But, of course, it isn’t without a small piece of story development involving how the monsters work the same way as humans do. The development team built Mummy for combat purposes but didn’t realize that she was capable of thinking of anything else besides that. This knowledge could be essential for the characters if the show decides to explore it further in the remaining episodes. The only sequence that bugged me regarding its story was when Camula takes the easy route by injecting Mummy’s throat with her cells to create a new voice box for her. It’s a pretty dull way to fix Mummy’s issue narrative-wise, and I would’ve liked for Mummy to solve it herself.

Overall, the tenth episode of Miss Kuroitsu offers a satisfying return to the show’s single-plot narrative. Unfortunately, it’s not enough to make this performance as stunning as Mummy’s singing voice regarding its direction. At least it gave me another small piece of information regarding the monsters themselves, so there’s that. There are only two more episodes of the season to get through, so let’s hope the folks at Agastia can deliver something worthwhile in their remaining products.