天下制覇

Very big globes.

Impressions:

Well, color me pleasantly surprised. Not that I would exactly call this good as yet. It didn’t do anything particularly amazing, the characters are pretty flat, and everything about Tomo is absolutely godawful. Hell, if you just remove Tomo and her violently flopping watermelons from the equation, this could almost be mistaken for Just Another Generic Action Show^tm. The whole breast milk thing was handled this episode about as one could hope. No strange noises, no sexual movements, never anything below the neck shown for that entire little segment. If they were going to stick with the whole thing, that was just about the least creepy way they could have done it. It did feel like quite a bit was being censored somewhere, given all the shots of walls and ceilings once Mafuyu was tied up, but damned if I know what it was… and that would also imply that most Shaft shows are censored to hell and back. Honestly though, I found the lesbian incest vibes through the whole episode far more unnerving than the teenage boy breastfeeding off a nun or any of the associated scenes. That’s… something somebody could put on their résumé I guess.

Production was pretty average all around, and certainly not helped by a lot of really ridiculous movement during the action scene. There were also a few shots that seemed like something had just plain gone wrong in the production somewhere. This one for example. Thicker outline, slightly different color palette, design’s not quite the same, etc. Most of the rest, outside of the basketballs strapped to Tomo’s chest, is largely unremarkable in any way. Like I said, decidedly average for the most part, which all things considered, is a step up from my expectations.

In the end though, average is about the best I can call it. Granted, there’s not a lot… or any… competition for my attention on Saturdays this season, but I’m not really sure if I’ll care a whit about this at all once the shock of unsexualized breastfeeding wears off. There’s always bloody Inuyasha.

Preview:

Cry more, sad boy.