English Dub Review: Peter Grill and the Philosopher’s Time: Super Extra “Peter Grill and the Sisterly Feud”

OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)

Despite being tricked into getting a stiffy from Fruitalia’s illusion, Peter is able to swiftly spurt himself quick enough to deflate his snake. Vegan arrives to take him away and the two play hide the sausage behind a tree. After that, Peter forces Vegan to explain the incident that put their elf clan into debt, which is solely due to Vegan messing up recreating some pudding she stole from her sister, and so the clan became destitute paying for the damages. Peter encourages her to apologize, but this goes as well as you would expect, so a fight breaks out. Also, the other girls are lost.

OUR TAKE

Huh, okay maybe I can try to have fun with this after all. I mean it’s already a pretty big struggle to come up with anything meaningful to say about this show, let alone a single episode. They’re only about ten minutes long, not including credits, the characters are all pretty much reprehensible with little to no redeeming qualities, and as mentioned, it’s pretty much just a hentai without the sex. And even if I were even remotely in the mood for that, I’m definitely not gonna seek out that kind of show in order to ponder and analyze it as if it’s meant to have an actual story. But alright, now we’re continuing this plot with Vegan and her sister, who we get to know a little bit more about at least, but nothing about their newly revealed background as poor elves really gives me much reason to care about either of them. Vegan, when she was introduced last season, was essentially magically drugging Peter to assault him, and her sister is no different. And I’ve got no love for Peter, who has his own issues, but Vegan and Fruitalia are easily the worst of the bunch, which unsurprisingly makes it very difficult to invest in the rest of this little arc.

Like holy shit, dude. What am I supposed to latch onto here? At least if we were working with a few episodes about the orc girl or more about the goblin girl, or even about the little sister who has a bloodlust for killing cheating guys, I would have some sort of angle on what to appreciate about the characters and the situation they’re placed in, what that says about them or what the story is trying to say, etc. But uh, yeah, no, this is just a total void of meaning. Two horrible people did a horrible thing to their family and now are doing horrible things to a different horrible person to make up for their horrible thing. And because they couldn’t NOT be horrible people, now they’re fighting each other instead of doing something that’s not horrible. All that’s left is to wait a week and find out how this section of the story concludes so we can wrap up the season with the dwarf inventor girl, who will no doubt be a clear improvement over any of this nonsense. At least I hope.