Grimgar #02 — Five Minute Montage

January 17th, 2016

 

Are you goddamned kidding me?

Impressions:

The first half of the episode had its issues, but they pale in comparison to the six goddamned minute insert song, of which a montage played out over five minutes of it. Not an amusing montage like the other fantasy show. This one failed to even reach the bare minimum requirement of making sense. After killing one goblin and being horrified by what they did, all of a sudden, it's time for a peaceful interlude where everyone wanders around town, wanting for nothing, taking pity on those other poor adventurers who have it far worse than they do (somehow), and without a care in the world. It's bad enough that the episode ground to a halt, but none of that even made a single iota of sense, and it was followed up by the same kind of blatant padding filler that ate up the first four minutes of the episode. And then the boys snuck into the girls' bath and got called perverts. Har. De. Har. Har.

So let's rewind to the seven or so minutes of the episode that didn't completely suck gigantic donkey balls. I might've had an easier time getting into it if the protagonists didn't keep acting like literally insane people. "Everyone's sneaking around, myself included… HOW ABOUT I SHOUT OUT TO YOU!?" And then another character did the same thing while violently attacking bushes about 100 feet away from the fight. Even the goblin was falling victim to the worms in the brain that affect everyone in the show, and given how six inches of steel into the neck was only enough damage to knock it out for long enough to make a dramatic recovery and need to be stabbed another dozen times, leaving only a few splatters of blood, I suspect it might have been a zombie. Someone in the writing room really needs to stop and ask "does what we're showing or is what these characters are doing make any sense?" If the answer is no, maybe thing of something else. At least they continued to spend effort on animating it though.

Next Episode:

Ganking goblins. Still.

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6 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • Paulo27 says:
    January 17, 2016 at 9:22 am

    It’s funny because the conversation at the start is all the important stuff they need to move the plot forward that they didn’t adapt in the first episode.

  • A.Nagy says:
    January 17, 2016 at 9:30 am

    What the fuck was this episode, it’s a literal filler episode…I seriously thought they were going to do the “twist” this episode but I guess they were like herp derp lets kill 20 minutes doing nothing.

  • Sanjuro says:
    January 17, 2016 at 2:14 pm

    They even continued playing the insert song once they started talking. So bloody awful.
    And you just know there’s going to be some boring angsty crying because boring man likes boobs girl instead of bum girl.

  • Anonymous says:
    January 21, 2016 at 2:47 pm

    Wtf mayn too much potential wasted. Putting that bad 1st ep aside in which I had to accept the fact that this show will be focused on this bunch of blankest characters instead of the other cool group, I thought this may get better but no, this ep is worse.

    The first 5 min wasted on the two tards babbling about getting drunk and how the moon is red. Who fucking cares?!!! And even if they have to really talk about the effing moon, it can be done in 2 min at best. Then the highlight fight scene is basically a rehash of last ep in which a 6-on-1 struggling for a good 10 min before the goblin went down.

    Now a bunch of wannabe “realists” will say “hurr durr this iz realz life” but srsly irl you don’t even need 6 to beat down a tiny ass goblin, 3 would be plenty enough to skin this bastard from head to toe. Oh yeah if you want to talk about realism how about the goddang goblin getting up after having a dagger in the neck and a buster sword on the head? W.T.F…

    Then the rest is wasted on a fucking generic fluffy jap song for a good 5 min about those noobs lazing around instead of training harder after getting pwned by a GOBLIN. Despite all that talk about money running out, I find it funny that they now waste more money on getting girly accessories and eating luxurious meat. How about go work out you weaklings?!!! But no they had to go peak at the girls first to wrap up a 23+ min ep with virtually nothing in it.

    I sincerely hope by next ep they can somehow kill a goblin faster than 10 goddamn minutes but from the look of it, on top the slow ass pacing it seems that I’ll be subjected to future dorama about some dumb ass triangle involving ass girl > phaggot priest < tits girl. Then whoever left out from that triangle will be paired up with the remaining 3 losers. Great…