天下制覇

I guess they’re keeping the English subtitle after all.

Impressions:

Wow. This is going to be quite a competition on Tuesdays. Who is the belle of the ball? Will it be Maken-ki with its pandering writing led around by a worthless lead, or will it be Mashiro with an entire cast of mentally handicapped characters being led around by a chain chomp wearing a cat skin? This is going to be a nail-biting escapade the likes of which have never been seen before. And no, I will not accept that that thing is a cat. Cats have legs and bodies and do not go "uryuummmnnn." At least cats that you haven’t force fed mentos and diet coke to.

I think the worst part of this episode was the fact that it did not in fact make me feel any better about Maken-ki in comparison. It was terrible too… quite terrible in fact. Everything was painfully slowly stretched out and like I’ve already mentioned, none of the characters could be trusted to empty a boot if the instructions were written on the heel. And the boot was handed to them upside down. Empty. Half the episode was spent with Generic Lead searching for his idiot sister because she’s too stupid to be able to navigate her own neighborhood by herself. These characters just stand around in the rain. If they had looked up, I think they’d have drowned. Then again, they were dry the minute the rain stopped, so their world is clearly not ruled by any laws of consistency. The least moronic of all of them was the one who just wants her school to be free from all penises. They interfere with maths or something. Who knows. The rest though… it’s like they’re having a competition as to who can be the most terrible. The clueless moron sister who talks slowly, the clueless moron maid who talks quickly, the clueless moron teacher who is scared, the girl who just stares at the chain chomp the entire episode.

As far as production goes, average to middling. Not too abusive of the stills (squeezing all the blood from this stone), but nothing visually interesting either. Art’s a little better than average I guess, although I did enjoy how they couldn’t seem to make up their mind about whether the sky should be cloudy or not even during the rain storm. The music was also usually quite obnoxious too. The best comparison that comes to mind was Merry’s blaring music that felt like it was trying really really hard to set some kind of mood that had absolutely nothing to do with what was actually happening on screen.

Aaaah, that was cathartic. This was just plain awful all around. Poor, very obviously cloying characters, average at best production, and laughably bad writing. I don’t even know what it’s trying to do because it does such a poor job at everything. At least panty shots are open, honest, and direct. I still have no idea what I’m going to do with Tuesdays though. Let’s see what Chihayaful is going to inflict upon me now. I hope there are CG cards. God, I hope there are CG cards.