天下制覇

You have got to be kidding me.

Impressions:

It’s not just the minigun stored in her leg, nor the swords in the wheelchair, nor that it’s a rocket propelled wheelchair, it’s all three things. Props to the animation staff for attempting to be confusing and diffuse the ridiculousness thrown at them by their writers for trying to keep the wheelchair and leg gun off screen as much as possible through that little 30 second fight, but come on… a rocket powered combat wheelchair? Shouldn’t she have just been holding the swords in her hands instead of attaching them to her side like some kind of demented chariot? And Yomi… how the blazes were you even hit by that? You should feel ashamed of yourself. It’s a bit interesting to me how the Tsuchimiya monster seems to inflict sympathetic damage on its user, but Yomi’s has yet to show any of that, even when tagged with bullets or massive explosions, although I imagine that was probably just a useful plot device to kill Kagura’s father off.

The body count may or may not have been high as we approach the conclusion. A Nabuu got an arm chewed off, Drillman was bit in the eyes by a snake, and Yomi was standing over the incredible wheelchair and wire tagteam duo with one of them pretty critically wounded, but the only death actually shown was Kagura’s father, who spent the opening minuts fighting Yomi and then the next 20 minutes of the episode dying. You’d think this was an opera with how long his death scene lasted. Overall though, an alright episode. I could have done without the reappearance of the giant naked afro guy, or watching a character spend more time dying than he did existing in all previous episodes combined, especially when it was pretty obvious Kagura would be getting the magical beasty whatsit from the start, but hey… all the sort of clumsy writing things pale when compared to wheelchair sword fighting.

Finale next week (probably, TVH seems to think that there’s a 13th episode, but they’re the only ones), and I’m placing my money on Noriyuki sacrificing himself to hug Yomi to death while Kagura deals with butterfly boy. As long as they don’t introduce a magical combat POG, I think we should be alright.