BOFURI has always excelled at demonstrating the appeal of hanging out online with your friends. What it’s done only intermittently, however, is sell the act of actually playing the game everyone’s using as a glorified Discord server. Part of that is the show understands the inherent gag value of Maple and pals inadvertently steamrolling over some epic-level challenge. We also have questions about the show’s production values, which came up in last week’s episode. I wondered if BOFURI had succumbed to the same second season curse that so many other anime struggle with. If the series can’t appealingly portray action, maybe it ought to settle in for fluffy fantasy-background travelogs while Maple acts like a doofus.
Fortunately, for this week, the show gets back on the ball pretty appreciably. That tower-conquering event that kicked…
