It looks like Aoi is not so innocent, after all, and she's scheming something there. I'm guessing she wants to punish Yukari with Gotou's hands by making him find out that Yukari has been bullying Satoko.

On the production side, it seems to me that this episode looked more rough than previous ones. I got the impression that some characters were drawn off model

I'm still having surprising amount of fun watching this, but I gotta say, this whole situation with trying to turn magivision profitable would be much more believable if those characters deliberating about it weren't 6-8 years old. But, I guess, showing a little kid pommeling everyone around makes it funnier

Ellhar is big mad! lol

This has neither rhyme nor reason. Some jokes are funny, but the transitions between serious moments and comedy are really weird, and the whole thing feels just so chaotic. This can be good in moderation, but here it's so prevalent that I think it hurts this show more than it helps it.

My favorites, probably in this order:

1. Even the Student Council Has Its Holes! ED
2. The Apothecary Diaries S3 OP
3. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners S2 OP
4. Firefly Wedding OP
5. The Apothecary Diaries S3 ED

That's just from the shows I follow this season. I haven't seen OPs and EDs from stuff I don't actively follow, so I might be missing something good here. Student Council Holes hasn't released the proper OP yet, and given how show looks so far, there's a chance it will join this list once it's out.

I continue going through my unwatched movies stack. This week I watched Millennium Actress which turned out to be a film that places a great deal of emphasis on form, and since I'm not a huge fan of a highly artistic approach that tends to push the plot into the background, I didn't enjoy watching it that much as I thought I would. Though, I will admit that the idea is interesting, and direction is truly excellent. There's probably plenty of references to Japanese cinema in there, that went completely over my head, and me not being familiar with Japanese live-action cinematography contributed to my reduced enjoyment of the movie. So, objectively, I'm sure it's a much better movie than my experience with it implies.

I also started watching False Memory – my leftover from the previous season that I overlooked, because it's donghua, and I generally don't watch many of these. I got used to Japanese language too much, and very often they don't have Japanese dub, like in this case. I'm halfway through, and one thing I can say for sure is that they're really flexing in the animation department. Visually it very much resembles FLCL, although I get the impression that in a way characteristic to Chinese studios, they're trying to overwhelm the viewer with sakuga too much. I think more toned down approach would work better with this kind of story, and the visuals overshadow the message it's trying to convey. That said, it's still somewhat enjoyable. Maybe the ending will change my mind for the better. We'll see.

I'm afraid you'll need to wait for fansubs for that kind of luxury. Unfortunately, the subs for this on streaming platforms vary from hardcoded to barely acceptable

I second Unboxious' recommendation of Ghost in the Shell. You've seen Oshii's movie, so maybe try 2026 version, it's pretty different in tone, but Major stil remains badass. Also:

• Assassination Classroom – Koro-sensei is quite a role model
• Classroom of the Elite – it's very edgy, so given that you disqualified Code Geass and Death Note, this might not be to your taste as the MC is that kind of character, just more autistic. Also I'm not sure if I can call this anime good. Somehow I managed to watch a bunch of seasons, but ended up dropping it during the most recent one.
• Saga of Tanya the Evil – Tanya can hardly be called a role model, and we see her struggling a lot, but I cannot deny her competency in what she does if we look at it through the eyes of people around her

I also wanted to mention Jujutsu Kaisen – Gojo is generally a goober, but he's a menace when he locks in; Amagi Brilliant Park, because it's a funny take on competency; Lycoris Recoil, because Chisato is such a pro, but it looks like you already watched those.

Generally, it's hard to find something good that fits these criteria, so pretty much everything I mentioned is stretching your definition of competency, but that's best I can think of right now

The best episode yet, and coincidentally also the horniest. The jokes had great timing, but the number of boobs on screen must have been quite distracting for the translator, as the episode contained a fair number of errors in the subtitles. You could spot them even without knowing any Japanese. That said, the episode also featured plenty of rather sweet moments, especially involving Terui. The flat-chested demon's secret is just that she truly loves everyone in the student council. She's such a sweetheart

Always happy to see more Libra. For a character with such a monotonous voice, she can be pretty funny too. That Karkinos barrier sent me 😂

Looks like next time Lufas will have to face two Heavenly Stars who joined forces, which might make it more interesting and less one-sided than her recent fights. This show can cook when it matters, so I'm hoping for a good fight.

Also, good on Sei for thinking about his crippled friend

As I thought, we're starting to enter the bullshit territory now
✅ nobody dies
✅ magic power awakening in the crucial moment (x2 !!!)
✅ the power of friendship
✅ nobody dies again
Some people will say that at least there was plenty of tactics involved in winning that fight. And in general I agree, but spending 5 minutes out of 20 minute long episode on showing people sitting in place and listening to a lengthy monologue, that tells them who goes where and does what, is not how you make a chase scene and the following battle exciting. It ruined the pacing this episode had.

They posted on Twitter that this will be a split cour (2nd part in April 2027), after all, not a consecutive run. This might be for the better, because the show is starting to look pretty rough. We even had some of these soldiers sliding down the hill like Garou in OPM S3.

Given what anime has conditioned me to expect whenever someone coughs up blood, I'm starting to get the feeling that Satoko might have a shorter future ahead of her than I had anticipated. Not to mention the very clear metaphor involving fireflies that appeared in this episode. It looks like we're heading toward a rather dramatic conclusion.

Watch something else? One Piece isn't the only anime in existence