天下制覇

This show just pitched a lot of things right into a brick wall.

Impressions:

As seems to often be the case lately, no sooner do I criticisize a show for doing something poorly than another show comes along to obliterate the previous one’s low standards. The drama in this direction was insulting badly done with the most trite and predictable resolution possible. I guess I shouldn’t expect much from melodrama introduced and resoved within a 9 minute span, but this was just horrendously poorly handled in every way, from Kyousuke spending the entire thing shrieking to Kirino’s godawful corny "I love them so so so so so so so much and they’re a part of meeeeeeee" speech. It’s not like the first half of the episode was amusing either. What little animation and parody cleverness the show had from last week was gone to make way for an endless parade of heads talking on phones. Because if there’s nothing less interesting than talking heads, it’s talking head. Actually, ew.

The music was the worst part by far. The dark and dramatic piece starts up, then suddenly the Can Can for a gag, then sad Mexican guitars. The we get into some kind of bloody war march for Kyousuke’s confrontation with daddy dearest about finding Kirino with her incest porn. Plus, since it’s the big moment where Kyousuke turns everything around and obviously lies, let’s toss in a gag. Now seems like a good time for a half-assed VN joke. Why not? And then… AND THEN, just to add insult to injury, the episode ended with Kyousuke shouting "MY LITTLE SISTER CAN’T BE THIS CUTE!" as they cut to the ED with the OP playing. If my laptop weren’t already falling to pieces as it is, I would have tried to throttle the screen. I guess the upside is that they can go off on their silly adventure to Comiket now! Whoopie doo.

Ah yes, and Kirino’s puke blue nail polish was ghastly. Because that’s also important to note.