天下制覇

Japan’s disdain for American police is palpable.

New Season Disclaimer:

I prefer to give every show a chance. You never know when your dream-eating insect wielding Mai HiME knockoff will turn out to be a psychological romantic thriller, or the strange moeblob show will be full of wit and urine jokes. However, my preferences are still my preferences, and while I’ll endevor to at least convey why I do or do not like things, there are genres of shows that I just plain don’t particularly enjoy. My opinions are based on nothing more than a gut reaction to what I watched literally 10-15 minutes prior and should be construed as nothing more and nothing less than that.

Of course, the moment I start uploading caps, a better raw appears. Oh well, I don’t care to put in the effort.

Impressions:

Honestly, I’m amazed that I survived through the ultra pretentious Engrish OP. The GitS director is laying it on just a biiiiiiiiiit thick there. From there, we get dumped into an America populated by Cab Ass’n and so much CG that it makes me feel a little bit bad for reaming Bee Train for abusing it. The writing in general was a bit painful all around. There’s a naked guy waving a gun outside of the White House, a girl throwing things at it, and abandoning her luggage in front of it. I don’t think the proper response is to wander off and find more rent-a-cops. Secret Service and bomb squad… sure. Nor do I believe that some random businessman would strip off his pants to give them to a total stranger in the middle of a public street.

Your opinion on the production will largely depend on how immune you are to seeing an endless parade of prerendered buildings, cars, doors, walls, people, etc. I was rather underimpressed. Like I said, I’ve seen much better writing as well. Seriously… a cop deciding to identify a suspect by their penis? And the ID failing because of shrinkage? Are you kidding me? This is also the first time I’ve heard ‘Johnny’ used as a euphemism for one’s junk too for that matter. Not to mention Saki’s initial reaction to Akira. I’m a foreigner in a foreign country, and a naked man walks up to me waving a gun in my face after eluding the police. The proper response is not "this is so silly!" I can’t even remember the music, which I suppose makes it about an even wash.

So, in short, there was absolutely nothing that interested me here. I don’t really know what they’re building this as. Akira’s got all the makings of an amnesiatic terrorist involved in some kind of government plot which totally won’t be the same thing as Laughing Man because see the symbol is different because it has a scale instead of a smiling face uh huh totally gonna be different. This episode was more about the airheaded bint following Captain Penis around like a lost puppy anyway. I honestly don’t care enough to find out which road they’re going to beat us over the head with.

Eden of the East OP
(Ha! YouTube disabled the audio. Silliness. Oh well, not going to rip it again.)