天下制覇

Not a good start to this season.

First Episode Disclaimer:

I like to check out the first episodes of nearly all shows, even if I think I won’t like them or they’re not in a genre I typically watch. I’m perfectly open to being surprised. Feel free to share your own opinions, as mine are hardly absolute.

Impressions:

Well, this was a singularly unpleasant experience. It somehow managed to be even worse than I had feared, and considering how low my expectations were, that’s an accomplishment all to itself. First off, I’m not sure if it’s just because of the early airing (part of a special on ATX), but the episode was two minutes shorter than most, which always irritates me. Then moving from that, the music was awful, the production mediocre at best, leaning aggressively towards poor, and the censoring just made things even worse. Seriously, I have no idea what this shot even is. That probably actually improved matters though, so I’m not complaining that much. Every other poorly animated and drawn shot with any detail featured fierce nipples violently trying to break through their oppressive clothes, which is a sentence I hope to never have to write ever again.

Even all of that could be forgiven if the show was funny or the characters didn’t suck, but hell, let’s hit the triple crown here. The first joke doesn’t come until nearly four minutes into the show. You are forced to sit there, listening to the characters explain the premise and setting for four damned minutes. And like I said, they’re terrible too. The drill girl (Flameheart, what a creative name) is exactly as you expect, and every other girl either faints at Hino’s approach or he ‘accidentally’ gropes them until they pass out. Saikyou’s the only vaguely interesting one, and that’s just because she’s a sadist. She’s the starring C-list celebrity in the cast of rejects from 1960s Godzilla bystanders.

In short, I found pretty much no reason to continue with this one. It manages to not even be as horrifically fascinating as Kanokon, which just leaves a boring, plodding, poorly censored T&A fest full of people I’d probably strangle if I was trapped in an elevator with them.