Ikkitousen XX #05 — When Giant Sharks Would Be An Improvement

April 22nd, 2010

 

How did this season get so bad so fast?

Impressions:

So, Community and 30 Rock finally get new episodes tonight… except that NBC out here has bumped them for the damned Trailblazer playoffs. So I pop over to see how that game’s going… is the game at least worth depriving me of Community? And the Blazers are down by 29 at the half. Twenty bloody nine. This is what you ruined my night for.

But hey, maybe the night could be saved. Maybe Ikkitousen would have at least 30 seconds of passable action. Maybe the writing would only be tolerably bad instead of horribly… or so horribly bad that there are giant land sharks with lasers on their heads. Perhaps they would show Chouhi doing something other than getting beat up. There’s the possibility that they would remember who had taken a back full of arrows between scenes. An outside chance that they wouldn’t waste 5 minutes of recap with stills from the previous season. Maybe it would have at least twenty minutes of animation and the last minute of the episode wouldn’t be a series of stills blurred from one to the next in lieu of animation.

So much for hoping.

Preview:

Meanwhile, back on the ranch.

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7 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • The Phantom says:

    You are saying it as if any of these Ikkitousen seasons were any good.

    They way I see this anime is a bunch of girls showing her panties, and fighting is nothing more than excuse to show more panties o yea and boobs/bras they show that too, other than that there is nothing more to this garbage.

    I would like to call it the worst anime of the season, but then we have kissxsis which seems to be there just to prove than no matter how bad an anime series is, it could always be worse.

    • Aroduc says:

      The first season and DD were at least directed and not totally inane. Completely mindless, but still fun. This episode was just wholly half-assed, unanimated, and has writing on the par of an afterschool special warning about the dangers of magic markers.

    • Yue says:

      Yay!! Someone who I can join hands in protest!!

      I just wish that the next season of Kenichi would air soon.

  • Nanaya says:

    Seriously? Rope? They wrapped some thin rope around them two times, at horrible angles, and then let them walk on their own power, no blindfolds, within whispering distance of each other? Who the crap is running these antagonists??

    A half-competent antagonist would wipe the floor with this lot. This is just pathetic…

  • GreyDuck says:

    …ugh. I live not-far from the Rose Garden. Please let this Blazer playoff “season” be put to bed quickly. I need my sleep.

  • Anon999 says:

    I cannot even believe that there are people that actually LOVE this garbage. Hell, the only people that are watching this are composed of perverted otakus.

    My god, Japan. When will you get your head together and actually think about producing more enjoyable anime, like Ranma 1/2?