English Dub Review: The Unaware Atelier Meister “The New Papa of a Mysterious Egg”

Overview (Spoilers Below):
After helping a village with a water shortage, Kurt receives an egg that hatches into a three-year-old girl.

Our Take:
The first half of the season concluded on a rather underwhelming note with Kurt unexpectedly defeating the demon lord and his undead army.  Then again, the show has been pretty disappointing so far, so I shouldn’t be surprised at how the previous episode played out.  So, with the demon lord defeated and peace restored, Kurt and the others had to deal with another minor obstacle at their new atelier to kick off the season’s second half: parenthood.
Following their attempt at solving the village’s drought, they’re gifted with several eggs, but one of them isn’t like the others.  That particular waterfowl egg happens to have a very young girl inside who resembles exactly like Kurt.  Don’t ask how an egg can hold a three-year-old girl inside, as the show doesn’t exactly know the answer, let alone show what that egg looked like.  So, it seems that Kurt has another responsibility weighing on his shoulders besides being the unaware “Meister”, which is being a father to this special girl, whom he named Akuri.
The episode also references a few elements that could play a role in the remaining episodes, including Lise hiding Kurt’s secret after Taicone offers to name the meister “Viceroy of the Frontier”.  However, little does the princess know that Taicone may be in cahoots with another demon lord, Hildegarde, as seen in the previous episode.  While we’re on that topic, the episode showed that Kurt and Hildegarde had a history together when they met as kids via a flashback.  If that happens to be the case, it should inject more intrigue in the impending conflict between the two childhood friends. Hopefully, that alone would be a good reason to keep watching the show.
Besides that, “The New Papa of a Mysterious Egg” greatly emphasizes its formulaic “child raising” plot with Kurt unexpectedly becoming a father and Yulicia and Lise being Akuri’s two mothers.  It also doesn’t help that Kurt’s unawareness continues to grow more annoying than humorous, as he assumed Yulicia solved the village’s drought when he clearly did all the work for the wildlife.  Then again, the villagers are also pretty dumb for not connecting the dots.  The point is that the show’s “unaware protagonist” routine continues to grow stale and repetitive by the minute, especially compared to other shows with similar concepts.