天下制覇

Maybe to make up for the constant shots of their asses.

Impressions:

What lofty heights doth man aspire to when I find myself thinking "Wow, they used a montage to show the story passing over a boring part." Especially shocking because the rest of the episode was so goddamned laborious, barely budgeted, and featured a nonstop torrent of exposition. Then the heroic music kicked in, the montage began, the budget swelled, nobody talked for a minute or two, visual gags, and rainbows were vomited. The only thing that stuck out otherwise was the passing shot of the random woman buying a gigantic chunk of meat and breaking the neck of the baby on her back with it.

The whole episode was kind of fighting with itself like that. There was all kinds of lipservice about how the protagonist was totally useless and a loser, to the point where supposedly everyone was having a laugh riot at him dying, which was a wide miss for a 'joke', while acting mostly the opposite. It also seemed to be balking at the reins for all the idiotic exposition about how this was totally just like a game. It thankfully assumed some things were known and just moved on, but then got caught up overexplaining other even more trivial nonsense. 

If the end is how it means to go forward, having moved past the petty dickishness and exposition, there might at least an okayish little character-driven light comedy, but you sure as hell wouldn't know it at all from the first 18 minutes.

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