天下制覇

   

Please stop staring. It’s starting to unnerve me.

Impressions:

I feel like I’ve been using the word ‘banal’ a lot lately, and who am I to buck that trend? This was the banalest bit of banality one could banally bore oneself with. Our apple-faced, doe-eyed protagonist mindlessly shuffles her way through things like a zombie, having the personality of a sack of spoiled pudding but with slightly less culture, occasionally getting slightly appler-faced and doeier-eyed when someone has feelings or friendships at her. The rest of the cast is basically the same with the only difference being how apple-faced and doe-eyed each one is. Collectively, they might have enough brain cells to fuel an ant for about fifteen seconds. And what do they do? They waffle. And they waffle. And they blankly stare. And they squirm. And they waffle. And they marvel at the glory that is a high school club. And then they waffle some goddamned more because they’re determined to be a breakfast at your time’s expense.

So basically, it’s yet another in the endless line of unambitious, churned-out by the marketing department’s numbers, girls going to club and being friends, with every possible thing that might stick out hammered down to a smooth, non-threatening, nondescript, pile of blah without even a trace that any human thought or caring went into the tiniest part of it. The same goddamned thing that Kyoto Animation keeps churning out, but even samier than usual since we’re right back to the “girls in a music club” nonsense K-On pulled without even the barest hint of pretending otherwise like they’ve done with all their awful light novel adaptations lately. Oh, but the musical instruments are different. How incomparable the two shows are.