天下制覇

This was a bloody disgrace.

Impressions:

Man, what a godawful arc this has been. This episode literally takes place in two rooms and is just an endless parade of exposition from start to finish. I only included 44 caps because when I went through the MPlayer dump, that was what I came up with on the first pass. Most 24 minute episodes, I end up with somewhere between 70 and 100 or so on the first pass. For a 30 minute episode, I ended up with 44. There was literally absolutely nothing to see here, so I’m putting my foot down… and you can still see the constant and blatant reuse. 

They could have done the entire first half of the episode using nothing but recycled art from the last episode, and that one was awful too. Honestly. If they’re not going to animate BLOODY ANYTHING, then what’s the point of even having an ANIMATED adaptation? At least if you play the game, you’ll get the full story. Here, you get margnally better (but still static) art, and a mangled half-assed version of the story that does its damnedest to sidestep the central conflict at every single opportunity. Freakin’ great.

At least the preview for the final Daybreak episode looked entertaining enough. Not that I care all that much about that story aside from the memories of water-gunning down punks back when the real Daybreak came out, but it is back to the silliness, which has been the only redeeming part of Rei so far. There was also more animation in that 30 second preview than there was in the other 1770 seconds of this episode.

Preview:

Rena Does Hinamizawa.