天下制覇

I’m still not sure how these MCs don’t drown in the rain.

Impressions:

I think what surprised me the most is how little of basically anything there is here. Usually these kind of shows cannot wait to get to their horrible premise, especially with Feel at the helm. This episode, however, was almost completely centered on the introduction of Mature Female Love Interest who will no doubt compete with Quasi-Incestual Love Interest who is already moist for Useless Lead and spends her days on roofs staring at pictures of her step-uncle. So is Mature Female Love Interest for that matter, but at least she’s been presented as off-kilter. Not really enough to actually be funny, but at least nobody’s screaming the punchlines to her jokes at me.

It’s not horrible, and production is at the usual decent-but-not-great Feel level, but I’m struggling to really think of much good to say about it either. Raika is kind of okay, I guess, but the lead is terrible and has absolutely no comedic chemistry with anybody. It doesn’t help that Feel can’t resist being Feel either and making him worse by immediately zooming in on the breasts, thighs, and panties of everything with a pulse and ovaries. If it was supposed to be about his relationship with his soon-to-be ‘daughters,’ then having him gawk at their panties and walk in on them changing is not sending the right message. At least Raika seems to be screwing with him instead of being nothing more than a horrible cliche. 

So basically, I have a hard time telling what this is trying to be or do. It’s not particularly offensive, but it’s not funny, touching, dramatic… anything either. It’s mostly just a lot of blank space. Since literally nothing else airs on Tuesdays, I’ll give it another look or two, but this episode could have easily been about 15 minutes shorter and lost absolutely nothing. That’s really not a good way to hook an audience and doesn’t bode well for the future.

Preview:

Less Raika, the one okay thing about the episode.