Zero no Tsukaima ~The Princesses’ Rondo~ #01 — It’s Kugimiya Rie Day

July 6th, 2008

 

Watch some yaoi ninja/loli mage.

Impressions:

Well, I have to admit that having Rie voice a demure boy ninja into other men back to back with a tsundere feisty mage isn’t as confusing as when Horie Yui was voice a trap and a tomboy at the same time, but it still feels weird.

I’m not sure what people were really expecting as I can already see the cries of "zomg, the source… THE SOURCE" going up around the internetron. Frankly, I’m happier with things different. I flipped open one of the novels once, and Saito was making out with Louise. Flipped to another spot, and Saito was making out with Siesta, to a third and he was thinking about making out with Siesta. So really, I’m happy just to have some fantasy adventure instead of Saito’s eternal softcore stay at first base. Production values are the same as ever for ZnT, OP and ED are as irritating as usual. Ichiko really just needs to disappear already, and Rie should never ever be allowed to sing in her cutesy voice.

At any rate, it’s more of the same. Saito will apparently have to make do without his power for a little while, but he’s happy to jump into the fray anyway, so the change so far has been approximately nothing. A little more existential angst about being useless, but that’s about it. Louise’s new foe, at least for now, is an evil clown, and Henrietta feels the need to track down Tiffania for some bra tips. It did seem like the plot was dialed up quite a bit and fanservice was dialed down slightly for the start of this one, which isn’t to say that there wasn’t any fanservice, but just not to the same level of Louise… slowly dressing herself as we watch her pull the panties all the way up her legs in slow motion from the first season or her mounting Saito and whipping for the start of the second. As for the plot, we got a quest, angst, make-up hugging and a villain all in one episode. It took most of the second season to put all of those together.

All in all though, exactly what Zero no Tsukaima has pretty much always been. Salud.

ZnT3 OP

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12 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • kiryuu says:

    mm. as much as I’d love to see the novels really play out, this works. ^^

    On the topic of Saito.. by some of the novel summaries he does make it a bit further than 1st on a few occasions. :D

  • Dm says:

    “OP and ED are as irritating as usual”

    Season 2’s OP is still the best song of all.

  • Aroduc says:

    Pfft. That’s still like saying that herpes is the best disease.

  • Ravage says:

    What’s this plot doing in my crappy fanservice show I wanna mock?

    I’m committed to watching this anyway, irregardless of how bad it’ll turn out. I didn’t already go through the first 2 seasons to drop it now, fairly similar tot Naruto for me in that perspective. ;)

  • DmonHiro says:

    It can NOT be as bad as season 2….it just can’t. This first episode is already bettter then HALF of the second season put together

  • Shinji103 says:

    Sorry, Season 2 OP was awesome. :D

    ZERO’S BACK!!! HUZZAH!!!!!!!

  • shadowlancer says:

    hopefully saito still get his fuking Panzer V tank and Ak47 later like in the novel.

  • FieryAeon says:

    I agree with Aroduc. The OP and ED for this series has been anything but awesome. >_>

  • Gil says:

    Season 2 OP is not as good as you say.

  • meganeshounen says:

    Oh man, not this again.

  • Cookie says:

    This shows promise, even at this early point. There has been a lot of talk about how it strays from the visual/ graphic novel. I think that if you like the anime (that aparently dosen’t follow the manga)Just stick with that. Since if the two differ you may/will get annoyed when they don’t follow one another.

    In any case this looks like its gonna be good.

  • max says:

    cool also and hot picure of louise and satio