Softenni #06 — Rival Schools
May 12th, 2011
If only one of them was Justice Academy.
Impressions:
Nowhere near the best episode, but still not as bad as some have been. I still don’t like the rivals much, and putting Leo Leona in drag doesn’t help either. He sucked away time that could have been spent on Lizzie’s panty-flash tennis techniques. None of the new ones were any decent either. The semi-rival to Kurusu might have had some potential just because it’d mean more screentime for Kurusu to screw with people, but she just had her serve and that was pretty much the end of that. The rest of them may as well just be completely generic background characters. I wouldn’t be surprised if we never saw any of them again.
The show did get weirdly on-topic through the start of the episode with the main pair-whose-names-I-don’t-care-to-remember actually using slice serves and positioning when playing. Misshi actually explained it and acted like a real coach for awhile, complete with corny thumbs-up. Asuna’s fighting aura was probably the highlight of that segment though. It moved things along, but it really wasn’t as engaging as the show’s been in the past. That faded quickly and by the time they reached the second match, it was clone balls vs clone Kurusu and Chitose hauling out the omega-racket… which also works against clone balls, but not straight shots. The home team got their tails handed to them off-screen mostly anyway, so… well… whatever.
And Hanako escaped again.
Preview:
New kid on the block. Also bears.
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You made a Project Justice/Rival Schools reference.
YOU ARE MY NEW HERO.
…who was your favorite team to use?