3-gatsu no Lion Recap

I'll never be a fan of recap episodes. When I was first exposed to them back in the 1990's while cutting my teeth on anime I didn't even like them. These episodes are ground zero for insulting the intelligence of the audience and the studio being flat out lazy. So when I saw that Shaft was releasing this in lieu of putting an actual episode out my heart sank. March Comes in like a Lion is a show I consider to be really good, and this recap garbage is coming off the heels of episode 11, which was legendary. I guess after a high the show hadto hit a low. There's really nothing to see here if a viewer has trekked through the first 11 episodes. And that's the problem with these episodes. They're stock footage just placed in the interim of a season to waste everyone's time. Literally, it's just scenes from previous episodes stitched together into some chimera, an unholy abomination that makes me think that Frankenstein's monster was not the worst transgression against the human race. They're just Lovecraftian horrors that creep into normal shows to drive the average viewer insane. I am worse off as a person for having viewed this, and my mental health will not soon recover.

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