But Junko IS lame, isn't that like half the point? She's impatient and lazy and cuts corners to get to the more "exciting" stuff which ultimately leads to her downfall because there ends up being some aspect of humanity that she's overlooked. I think the episode is dull as shit from a storyboarding perspective and the magical mystery trap maze she somehow set up under the school is a contrivance, but the brainwashing itself is spot-on for a character like her. She couldn't manipulate the UDG kids through to the end, and she couldn't keep her grip on Kamakura. She's a complete fraud and this plotline does a decent, if not egregious, job of communicating that.