As usual I skipped most of the scenes in this show (not sure though if ‘usual’ is the right word to use here since this is only the second episode). After all most of the backgrounds are reused most of the time (I mean the same background is used for perhaps more than 10 minutes continuously, and repeatedly on top of that).

So this episode is about yet another ‘alteration’ took place, except this time it happens in the virtual world where it resulted in many students skipped their school (due to being ‘trapped’ in the social online gaming or something like that). Sasami had her own theory to explain the ‘alteration’ that occurred in the previous episode, which is interesting by itself but to think that her brother is probably a Haruhi-like ‘God’ (who is unaware of his own divinity yet still have the divine power to alter the world just by willing it) that is enough to make me say WTF?!

What I like:

1. Kagami and her personal “high-speed network”.
2. Kagami
3. Hanazawa-san
4. Nothing else

Warning: The paragraphs below ‘summarizes’ what I hate in this episode. Read at your own risk.

I usually take up to 2 hours to watch a half-an-hour anime (the extra 1 and half-an-hour would be used for taking and processing snapshots into “something wonderful” which includes stitching and serving as a base for parody/crossover artworks).

That however is not the case with Sasami-san. For a start I could call this “Sasamimonogatari” because of its similarities with those “Monogatari” series made by SHAFT, except that it wasn’t flooded with random texts out of necessity like what you would find in “Monogatari” series (but it still retains the annoying stills).

I finished this in less than 15 minutes yet I still don’t feel like I was missing too much because the only important thing that I got is the “chocolate war” that happened last week indeed happened and it’s what they call ‘alteration’. For now it’s just some kind of speculation but alteration was taking place again in this episode so it can be assumed as it’s not fake for now.

I don’t mind with dialog-heavy show but if those dialog occur in the same scene/background for more than 5 minutes and the same scene/background may be reused again a few minutes later, and this repeated several times in one episode, then I’m not amused. There’s wasn’t much stuff to watch anyway other than Hanazawa-san Kagami whom I think the only character worth taking snapshots of in this show.