天下制覇

You’re even more useless than Yuuji.

Impressions:

I don’t know, I’m just not feeling this show. It’s probably because they spent almost 3 of the first 5 minutes on flashbacks to the previous episode. This is the second episode, is the budget really that stretched already? At least for all its ridiculous exposition, Index keeps moving forward. At the pace of a sloth trying to climb out of a well, but at least it beats spending most of the start of the episode recapping the previous episode. Sadly, from there, we just moved on to more exposition about the doppeliners, complete with helpful naked woman percentages in case you needed a visual aid.

We eventually come to the draw of the series, the action. Unfortunately, despite adding a villain with super power, the fight was a massive step down. He just waved his arms and posed like he had escaped from the Metropolitan Ballet and Kuro got knocked around. She only actually landed two (arguably three) hits in the entire 5 minute or so sequence. Keita also kept right along sucking by just standing there and getting his heart blown out. Even after his power up, he just watched the fight and looked scared. Way to go.

I’ll stick around for at least one more episode, but I’m honestly not enjoying this overall. I detest Keita with a passion and Kuro’s not too much better. If there were a larger cast to take some of the focus away from them, or Keita did something being looking sad and dying, I might get more interested, but with the production already taking a massive hit in the second episode, I’m really not too hopeful for the future. I’ll give it one more episode, but the 3 minutes of interesting action do not make up for the 17 minutes of absolute sucking.

Opening Sequence