天下制覇

95% less amazing than you’d expect

Impressions:

Most of this episode (to the tune of about 15 minutes) was wrapped up in a pretty droll detective parody. It was like watching the show on ritalin honestly. Everything was so downplayed and… well… boring. There were a couple moments where it (and I) perked up, but for the most part, I’d rather just forget that it existed entirely. The "Zetsubou shita" part there wasn’t even anything witty either. The rather short second part was about Tanabata, and hanging wishes up. It wasn’t terribly interesting either, but compared to the first part, it was manna from the heavens. Everybody did their usual things, Chiri had a gigantic wishlist, Meru hung up a cell phone, whose-her-face’s wish was completely plain, etc. All in all, this felt like a very mailed in episode. About the only particularly noteworthy thing was Kaede’s hemline.

Oh right, there was a new OP this week, but it was essentially just background music over text to fit in with the detective style parody. Trust me, it’s up there with watching paint dry in terms of amusement value. I’m not going to be ripping that.