Yay, they de-boringified the boring part
! (it was just as confusing as it was in the VN but whatever)
Spoiler for review ish:
* LOL Okonogi sounded almost exactly like Krauss sometimes...crack theory time?
* Sakutarou <3 (loved the uryu from both VAs, so irresistibly adorable)
* Amakusa <3
* Hoollly crap scary Kinzo. That scene was pretty cool.
* I like how they cycled between portraits before revealing the original in the OP.
* Oh yeah, and animation is just in general a million times better than it was. They keep improving every arc.
...um I don't know really what to say, it did what it needed to do pretty well. It's rushed but imo it's for the better and it's nothing near the fail of episode 1-1.
9/10, I guess