It certainly does feel like “The Dawn of a New Era” in this episode of Handyman Saitō in Another World. That is, it feels like this is where the actual show starts, after the drip-feed of character-establishing world-building punchlines across the first three episodes. Things are still fully sketch-based—it’s not like the show has fundamentally pulled the rug out from under audiences in terms of presentation. But now it’s more like when one of those daily newspaper comic strips has a storyline running through each day’s entry. There’s a unifying arc bringing everything together into the expanded labyrinth that Saitō discovered at the end of last week’s episode, with most of the action and antics centered on that locale.
As such, the big expansive gimmick now is that all those one-off sketch characters…
