English Dub Review: Gods’ Games We Play “Uroboros”

OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)

Fay, Leolesha, and Pearl Diamond work as their own team alongside the team that dumped Pearl to defeat the latest monster, Ouroboros. After some trial and error, the three manage to make the creature turn its eye lasers on itself, making it say “ow” and completing the trial.

OUR TAKE

This episode ends the little mini arc that introduced Pearl Diamond (someone who clearly favors Generation 4 Pokemon games) and adds another member to Fay and Leo’s team. Now all that’s left is that unnamed dark haired girl in the Opening who will no doubt be another love interest for Fay. As for Pearl, her addition to the dynamic seems to just be a girl with low self-esteem and big boobs to contrast Leo being a high confidence girl who is insecure about her lack of boobs despite being a literal god, while Fay is just generic harem protagonist model number 69420. But this episode shows they are at the very least an effective team, with Pearl’s addition mainly being her portal and teleportation ability, which has a goofy ass weeaboo named of “The Wandering”. And yeah, I can absolutely see how thinking with portals would be a big help in fights involving giant dragons with eyes on their torsos. It’s actually unbelievable to me that she got dumped by that other team of random nobodies whose names, if they even have any, are not worth remembering. But hey, whatever makes for a good enough excuse to get another main character on the team, which is ultimately the only reason any of this is happening.

No clue what the next big monster fight is going to be, although I can definitely say this was more entertaining than the one in the second episode. As I already said a mere paragraph ago , the next little arc will probably be about introducing the other girl, who may or may not be named Nel Reckless. I say that because she’s the only one with a main character sounding name and she doesn’t have an English voice actor attached to the wikipedia article yet. Yes, I know, truly the most well reasoned hypothesis you’ve ever seen, but it at least does the job of hiding the fact that I don’t really have much else to say about this episode.  It’s kind of a shame, because this isn’t that bad a premise for a show on paper, but the over complications, rote anime cliches, and frankly poor animation quality really bring it down. Oh well!