天下制覇

This show certainly tries to get by without wasting a single joke.

Impressions:

Since this episode contrived to be significantly worse than the first, I’m really not wild about giving it a third shot. The problem this time was Inami, who is just a horrible horrible character in every sense of the word. Her cliched inability to get within five feet of a man without physically assaulting them stretches well past the limits of believability, even for a slapstick series like this, especially when it outwardly purports to be grounded in reality. I’m all for reasonable suspension of belief, but not to the point where I have to accept that a seventeen year old waitress has panic attacks from being in the same room as men. How has she not bee fired yet? Or more likely, arrested for assault?

They also once again spent about 90% of the show repeating the same jokes over and over again. Poplar calls Takanashi the wrong name, that’s so silly. Inami is surprised by Takanashi and punches him, that’s so silly. Poplar is small, that’s so silly. Whose-her-face has a sword and a crush on the manager, that’s so silly. Those were the four jokes of the episode. I hope you like them. At least the OP was kind of nice, even if it’s pretty clear that the style was lifted completely wholesale from Azumanga. At least they chose to swipe from something good.

Preview:

Sword girl gets an episode.