Daybreak Illusion #03 — A Cart Full of Dead Babies

July 20th, 2013

 

I think you overshot that one, show. You’re not nearly ‘hardcore’ enough for mass child murder by train.

I did glance through Milky Holmes’s second episode. Somehow, it managed to be about six more minutes of the two new characters just walking around while giving the off-screen Milky Holmes a vigorous tongue bath over how great they are. Feh. Feh! Oh, and Prisma Illya was 5 minutes of Luvia/Rin squabbling then 17 minutes establishing that the rival girl is Illya’s rival, a conclusion one could have only otherwise reached by watching the OP for about 15 seconds. That’s enough of that.

Impressions:

This show really needs to start drilling down on the characters in a bit more meaningful fashion and a bit less in these tiny little compartmentalized bits that if you sneezed, you’d miss entirely. As it is though, they barely interact, so things like vine-girl turning on ice-girl to give fire-girl a chance (I need to learn character names eventually), it’s kind of out of nowhere. I actually sort of like those parts. The one guy in charge of handling them is doing a decent job showing that they’re mostly barely holding it together and would be good setup to the inevitable rivalry against eviler ones who are all about wanton slaughter with a "We’re not like you!" type of rivalry or whatever. Or maybe it’s just wishful thinking. And give the weekly lectures on daemonia a break for that matter. And ye lords, we barely even knew the plant girl and what we did know was that she was jealous, insecure, and mostly just a bitch. I think they showed a flashback to her bloody body at least three times this episode alone. Are we trying to make this into a drinking game?

There’s really only two ways that an episode like this could have gone. Either stopping them from killing the guy shows that the monster-people can get better and gives purpose to this endless angsting over killing, or ends in even worse disaster, thus pushing her to finally deal with being all killy. Well, besides the unspoken third option of do nothing for 20 minutes. Unfortunately, they seemed to want to combine all three of these so it was a little scattered, and really no closer to getting anywhere since he was begging alternatively to be saved and killed. I also kind of can’t help but think that with Japan’s traditional dragged out to hell scene that if anybody was run over by a train after standing on the tracks for nearly five minutes, it’s probably their own fault.

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11 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • elior1 says:

    i have a realy bad feeling about those 2 animals it seems they no so good by what they said at the end of the episode

    • Aroduc says:

      They’re authority figures in a piece of Japanese media. If they’re effectual at all instead of just figureheads or comic relief, then there’s at least a 95% chance they’re evil.

  • elior1 says:

    @aroduc by the way i wanted to ask you do you think like all the pepoles who comment this show is magical madoka 2 or copy of this or you think it show stand on it own?

    • Aroduc says:

      I think that any connections between the two are entirely superficial, so I reject this three part either/or on its face.

  • algorithm says:

    “I need to learn character names eventually”

    Akari and Luna are actually easy to remember. The others I have no idea, there’s Takocoin, Iceberg, Good Cop, Bad Cop, the Triplets, the Evil Pets and newcomers Brown and Pink.

    • Di Gi Kazune says:

      Very easy to remember

      Taiyou Hikari – Pris… err.. Sunlight
      Tsukuyomi Luna – Moon + Moon
      Hoshikawa Seira – Star + Star
      Shirokane Ginka – Gold + Gold

      The rest Etia the headmistress, Ariel the deputy.
      Meltina the stealer of Boushi.
      Priscilla the Joker.
      The Tendou Triplets, 1,6,7
      Laplace the Cat and Schrodinger the Crow… :P

      • algorithm says:

        At least try to get MC name right.
        Logic would dictate that Schrodinger is the cat.

        • Di Gi Kazune says:

          Read the :P at the end.

          I have done the research and will make mistakes deliberately for fun.

  • elior1 says:

    @aroduc also about the character devlomment they can explore each one of them in later episodes it still early and also we don’t know yet how many episodes this show going to have

    • algorithm says:

      It’s gonna be a one cour show, we’re already 25% in, MC seriously needs to start interacting with the other team members at least. Plus they are probably going to introduce a crapload of magical girls.

      • elior1 says:

        i think it going to be 2 cour show we even didnt met the main villain of this show which alweys showen in the first episode i bet they wont show him for a while