Goddamn Mahouka is doing my head in, like no airing anime ever before.
At the end of the last ep, there was a fight which lasted mere seconds, with the MC appearing to teleport all over and emitting "mystical" looking waves disabling everyone's attacks.
THEN, 5+ whole minutes of the current ep is spent with 3 girls + 1 guy all fangirling about how amazing the MC's fight was consisting entirely of bullshit "magical" jargon, which mightly impressed the girls. The other guy got verbal smackdowns twice from the girls for daring to comment:
MC: "Then, I discombobulated the quantum data rewriting stream of the escher flux"
girls: "WOW!"
Other Guy: "I think I know what you're talking about, Tatsuya"
Girl: "no you don't, because you're just a loser. Quick, let's get back to talking about how awesome Tatsuya is".
There were about 3 seconds of action in episode 4, the rest was all conversations about Tatsuya's powers, and people who might want to manipulate Tatsuya's powers. Seriously, each time there's a fight it's over too quick, then they talk for 5 minutes about what happened in the fight to an inane level of detail. One example that some reviewers brought up is imagine if each time Gandalf cast a spell in LOTR, they had a 10 minute discussion of how lightning magic works.