天下制覇

Very same.

Impressions:

Is KyoAni even capable of making OPs without their characters dancing in them? Well, whatever. This will be brief because I have nothing to say that I already didn’t say in the OVA episode. 

This was a little bit better than that, but not a ton. Like Arakawa, it’s still trying to trade on character designs or events being unusual while leaving the characters themselves and their interactions with such as the most flat, uninspired piles of dry porridge imaginable. That could be an improvement over Arakawa’s screaming, but it’s unpleasant either way. I almost started enjoying it whenever guns were involved, and the slow-mo sausage segment had at least a little bit of energy that the rest of the show utterly lacked, but the remaining 20 minutes or so was the same mind numbing tedium as before. Even those rare moments where it did something unexpected enough to actually threaten to be funny, it never actually followed up on it.  It didn’t have enough energy to be funny, there was little even worth looking at in the visuals, and it was punctuated by long periods of time where the characters just stop and stare at each other made only worse by the interstitials being tossed in at the most random of times. Here’s an interstitial. End of scene? Nope. We just wanted to stick on in to interrupt the conversation. Thanks, KyoAni. I don’t even want to talk about the even worse drawn and animated Helvetica segment. The only blessing there was that it was mercifully short.

At least it’s useful as a sleep aid.

FYI, if you’re in the states, you can watch today’s last show, Tiger & Bunny, here. Hulu’s a massive pain to pull videos out from though due to how they stream, so I’ll let someone else deal with it. It was fairly unimpressive anyway.