天下制覇

Gravity does not work like that!

Impressions:

Ah yes, the refusal of the call, then the second beckoning, and then it’s off we go on our magical adventure. The ending of the episode just about made up for how incredibly stupid the first half was. Hell, it began with a girl in a cowl on a train whispering to Inori not to create an incident. Yeah, that’s subtle. One person in a cowl in a group of school kids. Nobody will find that suspicious at all. Shuu, meanwhile, struggles against a package of noodles. Then he has to endure the most pathetic interrogation ever. This guy is an evil clown with fangs and what appears to be a camera in his eye. I’m sure you can trust everything that he’s telling you, right? Also, I’m still trying to understand why they don’t go arrest Inori if they know that she’s connected to a terrorist. And then Gai shows up disguised as Shuu’s lawyer and the first thing he does when he sees Gai is try to scream out his name. Shuu is seriously too stupid to live. That he manages to even remember to breathe is a miracle.

Once the attack on the facility started though, things were a lot more easily ignored under the general rule of cool (it’s so much easier to overlook this stuff when they don’t spend minutes on end talking about it!) and was easily the best that this show has looked, even counting the silly CG mechs sort of floating all over the place. That does kind of defeat the purpose of using CG, but at least Shuu and his magical dancing was animated. The gravity gun makes zero sense, nor does Shuu using it to create platforms of water that he can then jump off of as some kind of now incredible superhuman, and I don’t even want to know how or where the completely random magical wall he vaulted off of came from either. He (and Inori) also seem to be able to vault 50 feet in the air from a standing start. The clown and supposed bomber don’t interest me much though. Clownboy isn’t nearly as exciting as the other crazy’s in Generic Evil Government, although I think he did have a clowngasm watching Shuu penetrate Inori. The bomber… eh. They could go somewhere interesting with Gai collecting his own team of psychopaths, schoolgirls, and murderers for their useful voids as an ends justify the means sort of deal, but the way the show’s been, I trust a drawing of a pancake to have more depth than this. Also, it would make a better lead. Can you imagine how much better this show would be if Shuu was replaced by a stack of flapjacks? Aaaaah, it gives me the tingles.