天下制覇

Indescribable.

Impressions:

I… what? Just… huh? But… suddenly rapists? Gainax now? Steroids? What the hell is going on? It was day… now night. Whose jacket is that? Has he been drowning the whole time? Super sentai? CUCUMBER ATTACK!?

I bet this is what crystal meth laced with speed feels like.

The short and coherant version is that I think they fired every single one of their writers for this week and used all the money to contract Gainax to do the animation. Most of the episode was off the rails insane, not always in a good way since the writing and pacing this week was kind of like tossing the entire story off a cliff as a means for picking up speed. They probably also blew the animation budget for the rest of the season. I want to know how Sai got so built so fast. His body was terrifyingly well muscled, like the kind of person you expect to see on Spike pulling a bus with their teeth. Korone’s hair was also excessively well drawn at the start. I want to feel happy about it, and don’t get me wrong, the episode was a blast just from the sheer insanity of it, but going back to the usual episodes next week is going to hurt.

So really, awesome episode if you shut your brain off and try not to think about it too hard. Thankfully, they made that really really easy by amping up the craziness to the max. I do wish they hadn’t cut away at Korone’s big moment of triumph and had made Super-Hiroshi a little more interesting than a couple shots through his goggles and lines drawn in the skin around a giant phallic pulsing blob, but hey, I was laughing my ass off from about minute 5 onward, so what do I have to complain about?

Brief Summary:

Korone just had a flesh wound, said good bye and ran off. Okay, as expected more or less. Hiroshi and his sister angsted out about him being the hero and Sai being the demon king before they randomly stumbled upon some kind of pervert rapist summoning giant mana-draining sea cucumbers, who they proceeded to fight for the remainder of the episode. Korone popped back up to save them at the last second and then one-shotted the big bad off-screen.

Meanwhile, Hiroshi found the magic sword, which turned into a bracelet and let him transform into a superhero. He flew off, defeated the sea cucumber and exchanged a super punch of friendship with Sai before going back to his life as Clark Kent. After that Korone did wrapup, told Sai to marry Hattori, and couldn’t resist teasing him a little more.