天下制覇

I don’t think it works like that.

Impressions:

I still haven’t decided between this and Casshern on Wednesdays… so… *shrug*

ROBBLE ROBBLE ROBBLE THEY CHANGED THINGS FROM THE MANGA/NOVELS. Ha! Joke’s on you. I haven’t read either. Score one point for Aroduc. Ding!

Taiga and Ryuuji continue to be the stars of the show. Other than some random and minor physical abuse, neither is particularly antagonistic towards the other, and they really are going out of their way to be friends. It’s hard to hate characters who know blame themselves or the situation instead and beat up lamp posts instead of lashing out at their friends and creating relationship loops that normally consume entire episodes. Both Minorin and Kitomura are far too thickheaded to have quite the same appeal. While Taiga was doing everything from showing everything from venting frustration at how people looked at her to triyng to help Ryuuji’s imagine, and he comforting and trying to support her, Minorin and Kitamura were just one dimensional oafs. Hopefully they get a little more depth in future episodes, because at the moment, they’re bordering on Tenma-level relationship incompetence. Neither of them have shown me that they deserve Taiga or Ryuuji’s advances.

No summary this week. In a rare game 7 upset, Totali beat me to it because I was out doing Aroduc stuff for most of the day. Just go bother him if for some reason you can’t follow the relatively minimal Japanese in this episode.

Oh, and the OP is kind of irritating too.

ToraDora OP

Preview:

Minorin episode apparently.