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Silly transgendered magical weirdos.

Season Premier Disclaimer:

I like to check almost every new show out. The value of a show is in its execution, not its premise. That said, my tastes are mine and mine alone. Some things bother me, some things don’t. I will attempt to be as cogent as possible with my complaints and praise for each show, but my views skew heavily towards the center. Nothing is perfect. That said, my tastes and my opinions are mine and mine alone and should not be construed as fact or, god help us, some kind of comprehensive critical analysis of the entire series based on the show’s first 20 minutes. Feel free to leave your own thoughts on the show if you’d like, but invective and similar will be mocked or deleted depending on which amuses me more at the time.

Ha ha! Thank you for showing up within the first hour of my 2.5 hour on campus break. Now I’m watching transgender girl fighting anime in a grad lounge while having a poptart for lunch. This is hardcore. I don’t have the time to get to Nyankoi! before classes though, so tough luck.

Impressions:

Very nice first episode for the most part. While it’s certainly not the best action I’ve seen, there was at least a lot of it and none of it resorted to stills, speedlines, or other particularly cheap tricks. Nomad also continues to show their chops with music. For all their other sins, I still really like their preference for jazzy mood music. Horie Yui also did a very good job as Akane, with both her crazy killer Kampfer mode and her crappy Noto lame personality. She probably took up about half the dialogue in the episode too, which is always a good thing as far as I’m concerned.

Now for the bad. The exposition this episode was… a tad oppressive and the second half was not terribly interesting. If people weren’t running around shooting guns, they were standing around explaining why they were shooting their guns. The humor was also… not particularly good. The cast is also pretty bland thus far and while I’m happy that Natsuru is immediately willing to resort to throwing fireballs at girls and tackle them for whatever reason, he’s still rather milquetoast and has a long way to go to stop sucking. The fanservice was there too, but nothing particularly noteworthy.

So a pretty strong start I thought. The action was certaily well above average, and Nomad’s always good for music. Of course, this is just the first of about 4 more Thursday action shows this season, so I’m not making any promises.

Preview:

Bang bang.