Sognefjorden

Well, apparently “extra luck” involves more than a blood transfusion.

You have to:

• Blot out the sun,
• Fire up a building full of weird clunky equipment, and
• Move geometric shapes all around in some inscrutable divination dance.

Crack a gasket on the wrong coolant pipe and the whole thing drops into reverse, and your luck-blooded troops suddenly have the worst luck ever.  Frankly, this whole side-plot about luck is garbage and should have been left out.

Hitomi is not abducted, thanks to a cracked gasket or whatever, but then one of the catwomen tries to abduct her anyway.  Hitomi reads her past through some touch-based mental divination, because — shut up she’s generally magical, stop questioning it! — and we get a repeat of the backstory we saw in the last episode, except with some seriously violent imagery of the catwomen’s parents being murdered, to spice it up.

I’m still watching, even after the crap that was episode 19, but I feel like instead of coming together, the show is unraveling even more.  Hitomi’s lesson this episode is extremely confusing:  “All this is happening to you because you’re a sad-sack, but the solution is not to change your feelings, it’s to embrace them, but only when those feelings are positive and about other people, and that includes your enemies and even people who are trying to kill you. Believe in them!”

Wisdom!