天下制覇

Nice of the protagonists to bother showing up this week.

Impressions:

Right back to being a mess, but at least it's not quite to entire episodes about taking baths and reading softcore porn. If not for taking the 90 seconds normally reserved for the OP, the protagonists wouldn't have even appeared in the first half of the episode. Thrill how there's some… random battles being fought miles away. These are totally important things that may be relevant to the story at some point eventually, and definitely of equal importance to the giant monster stomping around, nuking a city right in front of them.

Unfortunately, the giant monster was handled pretty badly too. It… stomped around, and shot some exploding bombs of fire while Haku looked horrified by it. For a very, very long time. If you want a scene to be visceral and emotional, don't stretch it out for goddamned minutes on end. And the characters have to goddamned do something. Don't just stand there, explaining and talking about it. Do something that draws me into the story and the struggle against it. If you don't even try goddamned anything, that's not going to give any kind of feeling of hopelessness. Especially when it then ends with the goddamned belly dancers running up and relatively effortlessly blocking an attack, leading it to poof back into a guy who just wanders away.

Next Episode:

…Back to shenanigans, apparently.