So, after that train wreck (Oh, still nothing compared to Muv-Luv...) they produced an episode for the BD release, and out of morbid curiosity, I downloaded it.

Sometimes I think I should subtitle this blog "Watching Bad Anime So You Don't Have To." But it could just be that I like to complain.

So, Gokukoku no Brynhildr did have a plot that tended to crowd out all of the standard Harem Cliches a bit. In order to make up for that, they created this bonus episode that cuts in just after Lone Survivor joins the crew. To make it work, Our Hero has to change from being one of the few competent people in the cast into a pure McGuffin.

The plot goes something like this. All of a sudden, after Lone Survivor announced her love for Our Hero and stole a kiss (and Not-Kuroneko destroyed the cell tower unconsciously), Psychic Hacker decides they will have a Contest over possession of Our Hero. Please remove your glasses before facepalming. Our Hero isn't up for it (He says his only love is for Kuroneko, whom Psychic Hacker points out does not exist) but does nothing to stop it. Deciding that if they can't be his girlfriend, they'll step right up to who would make the best wife, I guess love isn't entirely necessary for that role? Psychic Hacker is surprised when everyone is up for it (except Gothy Precog).

Contest 1 is cooking. Busty Freshman takes the lead there, while Not-Kuroneko starts blending everything, because that's all she knows how to do to prepare food for Gothy Precog. Psychic Hacker, noticing she's being outclassed, announces that they've started before she lays down the rules. The rule being that it's Naked Apron cooking, because a wife would do that for him. If Naked Apron is your thing, it might be worth a brief look. For some reason though it's just down to Psychic Hacker and Lone Survivor, and they both produced utterly inedible food. Draw.

Contest 2 is endurance, arrived at by some really fractured logic on Psychic Hacker's part. They all have to stay in the hot spring until there's only one left. It ends in a draw with them all passed out from the heat and floating.

Contest 3 is Massage, and at some point Not-Kuroneko gets jealous and is about to bring down the whole observatory on them, fulfilling a premonition Gothy Precog had, but instead of everyone dying, they all survive except Psychic Hacker who gets crushed under the fallen telescope.

And then.... it was all a dream. Psychic Hacker really needs to work out why she'd dream she lost and got killed.

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On the other hand, I grabbed a couple episodes of Danna ga Nani wo Itteiru ka Wakaranai Ken, the one about the Office Lady married to the Otaku. It's one of those 5 minute shows, which I wasn't expecting. It's full of really short jokes, but surprised me by not going for the lowest possible humor. And the Otaku husband actually has a fairly profitable blog he runs, so it's not like he's a leech. That factor alone improves the set-up a lot.

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