天下制覇

Can’t miss an opportunity to write out Nyarlathotep.

Zetman’s broadcast was delayed by 40 minutes, so I’m going out to do Aroduc things for a little while now. I might be a little delayed getting to it, but I do plan to cover at least the second episode.

Impressions:

Well, to start, it’s very firmly in the magical girlfriend area, but at least there’s only the barest glimpses of romance, likely tossed in because there’s a male and ‘female.’ The focus is wholly on the comedy without any distraction from it lasting more than a few moments at most. Mahiro does distinguish himself from the pack of bland male leads by trying to rule his particular woman-thing through stabbing, threats of stabbing, and assorted other violence. It’s no Sento and his Magical Bat of +5 Masochism, but compared to all the other bland male leads this season, I’ll take it. His curiously incandescent penis does give me pause though. Nyarl herself could use a valium or two though. It’s a change from the usual morose and streeeetched out style that anime normally likes, but this is just slightly too far on the other end. Listening to her go a mile a minute is exhausting. She did win a lot of points for declaring she was going to use "Space CQC" and then kicking it in the fhtagns and some of her random tangents could be amusing, but most of the time, she was just rather loud. The Pokemon bit towards the end too… ehhh…

As has been usual for Xebec in recent years, there aren’t any issues with the technical production and it’s certainly well above average. Nyarl can be a little oddly drawn at times, but I’m pretty sure that’s part of her general style given how much she hops and flops around. I do think that they didn’t quite reach the blood-drenched otherworld they were going for whenever Nyarl had to briefly fight something. Better shading and contrast in the coloring would’ve helped there. Otherwise though, they do a good job conveying Nyarl’s energy visually without any obnoxious stills and whatnot. It also blitzed right along for the most part although it did sort of get bogged down in needless exposition at the start… and that was after making a joke about fastforwarding through it. Not winning any points for awareness here, Xebec.

Preview:

Enter Red.