天下制覇

Little children should be eaten. With tartar sauce.

New Season Disclaimer:

I prefer to give every show a chance. You never know when your dream-eating insect wielding Mai HiME knockoff will turn out to be a psychological romantic thriller, or the strange moeblob show will be full of wit and urine jokes. However, my preferences are still my preferences, and while I’ll endevor to at least convey why I do or do not like things, there are genres of shows that I just plain don’t particularly enjoy. My opinions are based on nothing more than a gut reaction to what I watched literally 10-15 minutes prior and should be construed as nothing more and nothing less than that.

Impressions:

If you came here expecting a lot of a leopard man, then I have bad news. The twins dominate the show, and they’re both awful. Remus is especially painful since he’s such a whiny pantywaist. Rinda’s only marginally less helpless, but at least she doesn’t need to be saved every five minutes. Guin himself comes with his own brand of distractions, namely that his mouth just pulses as he talks without any attention whatsoever to syncing it… except when it doesn’t, and he talks without moving his mouth at all. If he didn’t move his mouth at all, that’d be fine, but the constant rhythmic panting is distracting.

Production is extremely high all around, Guin’s head notwithstanding. The backgrounds are gorgeous, the monsters are monstrous, the generic soldiers generic. Nobuo’s touch on the score is also unmistakable, although whether or not that’s a good thing is up to you. His music sort of all starts to run together for me after awhile, and we’re into what… the third decade of it? The action was well done, but again, I’m already tired of Remus shrieking like a little girl and falling over.

All that said, it is extremely high fantasy, which I really don’t generally care too much for, and between the amnesia, the worthless Remus, and the painfully cliche Rinda, very little about the characters or story interests me either. I certainly wouldn’t hold it against anybody for continuing though. It’s just a bit heavy for my tastes, especially with a pretty antipathetic central cast and no real story to speak of yet.

No OP this week.

Preview:

Saving the twins from yet more trouble.