Mao Zhi Ming Episode 5.5

Basically we have a continuation of the plot of episode 5 here. It's a short little fight between the crew and a bunch of wolf-like monsters. Story-wise it doesn't feel like you'd lose a whole lot by removing it, which is probably how it ended up as an in-between episode like this. Although it does explain a bit more about the magic system and in particular how the magic rods are used and shows her learning to use them for the first time. It's a little weird that they didn't just keep it and have the show be 13 episodes long, but whatever, moving on. Thelittle wolf guys turned into item that reminded me of a video game. It made me think maybe there was something they were parodying or a game this is based on, I wouldn't know. It's overall neat to see how magic combat works in this universe, and how the little cat eared boy fights. The various truths and lies the girl has to come up with were mildly funny and I'm running out of things to say about this short single episode. It's entries like these that really make me question my goal of writing a review for every entry on my list. But I know it makes MAL mad that I'm doing it so I'm not stopping any time soon. 6/10