天下制覇

There’s really no other word for it.

Impressions:

I’m not sure what they did a better job with, the repetitive music, haphazardly mixing presentation styles, the lack of production errors, or the surprise twist at the end. We’ll start with the best and most surprising part. GMW Stubbins… is not actually dead. And he’s evil! Wow! I never saw any of that coming. I have to applaud his foresight. He managed to predict that Charlotte would run away from home, go to a certain hotel, and then planned to fake his own death just so he could pick her up himself in a limo just afterward. And all this weeks, maybe months in advance. This was done so amazingly that it didn’t feel completely fabricated in the slightest. The terrorists were also amazingly on the ball. Despite Teppei having absolutely no reason to be there in the first place, let alone stay there after everybody else left, they managed to catch him in their carefully thought out trap.

The rapid shifts in presentation and genre were also handled excellently. In the middle of a terrorist bombing, it was wonderful to see two or three minutes of comic relief of Teppei attempting to fight a steel divider, with the gag that there was a hardware store right next to them all along. Charlotte also contributed well to those sequences by happily dancing around and saying how fun it was to be with Teppei in spite of imminent death. One also has to congratulate Seika and Sylvia. The Arima group only had 50 some odd special ops units in the field… and a dog, so it made perfect sense to fly in a dilettante and a fashion designer to disarm a single bomb. What can’t fashion designers do? I also loved the encore presentation of "Teppei is so awesome" while flying back to a terrorist engagement. It’s not like they could have been boning up on bombs or anything. And yes, Sylvia, I too think that sex with Teppei would be just as awesome as your dead mother.

Teppei also stepped up to the plate by magically regenerating his broken wooden sword, and turning it to metal in order to deflect bullets. I think this opens up the possibility that he’s really Shirou. He also managed to defy the laws of physics by throwing a building wrecking bomb about 30 feet away from him down a chute. I mean, it’s not like an enclosed space would channel the heat and force out of it or anything. He’s clearly far stronger than anybody ever suspected.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I think that repeatedly slamming a waffle iron on my hand will be an excellent idea and a perfect way to follow this absolutely stellar display of… well… everything.

Preview:

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