I kinda liked the animation for this episode, it wasn't half bad, but the story isn't really appealing to me. Still, it comes out better than their manga episodes, because they have unlimited freedom and don't have to worry about spreading X amount of manga chapters over X amount of episodes.

I'm just praying they waste enough time on this arc (which, from this point forward, I'm not going to bother watching) so that they can actually do a good job on the next manga based one... because that one, so far, is my favorite. If they screw up on it I'll probably just stick to the manga forever.