天下制覇

Now with less Emerson, Lake, and Palmer.

I had this done about 7 hours ago, but like an imbecile, I thought to myself that I could wait a little while and get a real raw. Oops.

Impressions:

Yeah, so… my Japanese got quite the workout this episode. My attention span is usually about 45 seconds on a good day, when the characters start lecturing about the evolution of art from Mesopotamian figures of the human form to paintings of Greek goddesses, I can feel my eyes glaze over and consciousness fade. The first half was still pretty good, and the second half had a few good gags. I particularly enjoyed them solving Noda’s little hissy fit over not having tour headphones by dropping Tomokane’s headphones on her and then having Masa talk about things. Masa’s proposed reality bending horrors of an art exhibition at the start was also excellent.

The main problem with this episode is that there is only so much you can do with people looking at various things in a museum. They had a bit of fun at the exhibition in the first half since they could screw around with the paintings and run around like their normal ADD selves, but once they got to the real museum, there wasn’t really much left except to watch people look at things. No strange daydreams or weird delusions anywhere in the second half, just… old art. Thankfully, next week looks to be a step into surrealism which should be all sorts of fun.

Preview:

Altered reality.