天下制覇

If this is a turn for the glasses’ kid, I approve.

Impressions:

While this is following up Night Raid as being another completely unabashed space filler episode, at least the direction here was certainly… well… interesting. AIC’s directorial roulette wheel spun off into bizarre territories this week with not always particularly great results. Let’s start with the worst, the music. Holy crap. It’s a 15 second loop. Do not play it for five straight minutes. You are driving me insane. They also decided to go into the Family Guy sphere of humor and try to create a joke by stretching out something not funny at all for minutes at a time. The overdramatic minute and a half of slow motion to end the ping pong match was a little funnier, but that came only after staring at a couple different simple 15 frame loop for almost the same amount of time. It’s not the kind of humor usually seen coming out of Japan though. Different, certainly, but really not what I like.

For the most part though, and particularly in the second half when they found a second song on the playlist, it was a pretty funny little episode. Nozomi and the electric fan was definitely the highlight for me. I’m not really sure what we’re supposed to think of Kaho as of yet. She appears to be some other rich moutain girl that Chise knows, but other than hitting on Takumi, didn’t really do anything. Horie Yui, voice assassin, literally popped up out of nowhere again. I’m beginning to suspect that her character is never going to be anything more than that. The episode did have a lot of the energy and ambition that the first episode did though, so it was welcome to see them doing something other than just going through the motions, even if I don’t think a lot of the humor clicked with me this time around. Your mileage may vary.