天下制覇

And MgRonald, eh?

Impressions:

Awesome! Another show that begins with CG and an info dump! My two favorite things! Especially when put together! Okay, so it then followed it by some not-bad-at-all fighting animation, but I think that took all the pennies in the piggy bank. The main issue here is that it’s hard to tell what the show is even trying to be. The first 5 minutes are a completely joyless affair and even after that when the ‘comedic’ situation of the powerless overlord and his minion are dumped onto Earth, that doesn’t stop the seemingly neverending torrent of exposition, with only a few breaks every now and then to make a joke. It also went from handling the different language thing a little more gracefully than Gargantia did to completely flubbing it for reasons I can’t really discern. All of a sudden, he’s thinking in Japanese for like… another one of those 30 second spews before screaming in his moonspeak again.

It does get a bit more humor oriented in the later going, but not nearly enough and the visuals do little to nothing to support the humor. Not there’s much there to support anyway, I guess. A lot of the humor falls into the category of just simple overdramatization. The upper level, and I use that term loosely, is about on the level of your nerdy friend waving his hand like a Jedi to open the grocery store’s automatic door. There are a few decent jokes in there, but they’re so slow to come and get no help at all from the director that they’re pretty easy to miss.

I guess it just strikes me as a show trying to do too much and it’s not particularly competent at any facet of it. I’ve seen worse, this season alone, but this was just really incredibly bland.

Next Episode:

35% chance the exposition stops.