天下制覇

Not quite what I was expecting.

Impressions:

Well… this is different, and honestly, not particularly welcome. I’m not certain how excited I am for the rest of the series if all of it is going to be covering Yomi and Kagura. I don’t particularly care for Kagura overly much, and ‘present’ Yomi is nowhere near as interesting as her psycho killer persona. The long awaited opening seems to indicate that we’ve already seen what could have/should have been the big twist. On the other hand, if episodes three and four had been how things started out, along with that OP, I’m pretty sure that I wouldn’t have made it this far.

In this episode, it’s hard to really tell the difference between this and softcore lesbian cable porn. Yomi and Kagura play kiss over pocky, wrestle/makeout in the backseat of the car, and grope eachother in the shower. That’s… really not the kind of show that initially intrigued me… and that’s before even mentioning the giant naked man with an afro and chest hair that looks like a wig. I’m pretty sure that giving Yomi a magical iron didn’t help matters either. Seriously, we’ve gone from sniper rifles and motorcycles, to gunsheaths and briefcases… to a magical iron. What the hell? At least the show understands that it’s ridiculous, but it doesn’t change the fact that they still tried to use an iron as a serious weapon in a fight.

It’s still an alright show I suppose, but if the next two months are going to be Kagura and Yomi alternately sexually romping around and killing minor monsters/getting over a fear of killing zombies, I can’t see myself covering this too much more, though that may change once they get back to the crazy instead of the horny. There’s just honestly no character that is really resonating with me here, and with the gradual and expected decline in the action and animation and the ramp upward in public and private lesbian writhing… well… that’s honestly about the last direction that I hoped this show would go in, but appears to be exactly where things are headed.

Ga-Rei -Zero- OP