天下制覇

The cat maid that will pierce the heavens.

Impressions:

Ugh… been at least a couple months since WordPress ate a post. Oh well, it’s not like this show is exceptionally plot driven.

Pre-OP of this episode was a big Mission Impossible spoof, complete with all the characters redone as if they weren’t trapped in some kind of crazy chibi world. I honestly wasn’t that big of a fan of the school antics at the beginning. They were pretty steeped in every possible cliche imaginable. Thankfully, they abandoned that within two minutes to get back to the weird magic stuff. Still… it didn’t really hit its stride until the second half.

This time, we got two goons with a bag of… something… that needed to be retrieved and ended with a giant robot maid fighting a giant… uh… ballman? I thought the random insertion of the gay robot in the love boat during the robo-maid launch was priceless. Most of the rest of the episode from then on out was just a big ol’ sentai parody, though there were rocket punches and obviously… breast missiles (which was where his slaves were piloting the mech from). The bag, of course, ended up being filled with gatachapon figures and the whole thing was just a big tiff over otaku collecting.

So honestly, I’d probably call this the weakest overall episode of Macademy, but it still put together a rather funny second half, so I’m still pleased. They also toned down the fanservice quite a bit for this one, which was nice after the lesbian backseat orgy in Ga-rei. I still don’t like Takuto, Futaba or Suzuho all that much, but given that so much of every episode and its humor is driven by Ataro instead of the ‘main’ cast. He seems fully aware of all the silliness even as he participates (and causes) most of it. A gifted imbecile I suppose you could say. Falce was also a lot more managable this time around when she was just there to show up and be strange instead of play a main role.