天下制覇

Oh wait, that’s the main character.

In case you were curious about what was going on in puzzle-land this week, it was salsa. Exceedingly salsa.

Impressions:

Ugh. The most animated thing in the episode was Deus, and ‘he’ was made out of a giant mass of clumsy CG. Almost all the rest was the oh so exciting parade of stills and talking heads, making it probably the second worst animated first episode of the season after F-Zero’s with nowhere near the art quality to match. There was some pretty decent direction highlighting Yuno’s obession, but she barely appears at all for the first half and even with that aside, a couple moments of good lighting and artistic direction do not make up for an otherwise completely visually bland affair. And since the rest is about 75% Yukiteru bemoaning his fate and 25% exposition… well… I feel like I’ve already more than covered my problems lately with godawful storytelling. How about a narrative, damn it? You can’t just have your characters say how they feel. That makes me angry.

In any case, I spent almost the entire thing bored and clock watching. I was even less impressed with this than I was the ‘pilot’ OVA. Possibly because even less happened and this was three times as long, so it had 200% more of Yukiteru whining, at least. I will admit that the post ED segment of the serial killer repeatedly destroying the phone as the mascot character tried to explain what it was made me chuckle, but that’s about it. And if you’re watching this for the comedy, then either you’ve already had enough absinthe, or you’re going to need a whole lot more.