天下制覇

Don’t forget to bring a bag for when she does her business.

Impressions:

This show still isn’t grabbing me at all. The third part was easily the strongest of the three, but it was still really not all that funny. Too much of it relies on Squid-For-Brains making silly faces, and what doesn’t is so obvious (spewing ink on the cake for example) was so obvious and drawn out that any hope for a joke was killed. It might work better in manga format since it would take only a couple seconds to read that scene, but stretching it out ten times longer than that just lets the joke be telegraphed and then the audience has to sit around and wait for them to get to the obvious punchline.

The first part was Squid-Head meeting the beach’s ‘lightsaber,’ Gorou and learning about a fellow ‘guardian of the ocean.’ The second part was her wanting a birthday, with a particularly repugnantly photographed garland simply dropped in. What the hell was that, Diomedea? The final part was Squid encountering a dog, which out-cuted her (if you say so) and resulted in her acquiring a stalker. Forcing her to act like a dog was probably the high point of the episode for me, but that was over in a matter of seconds before it was off to Yet-Another-Cosplay-Fetishist^tm character. I guess at least it was less of a Keroro ripoff this week, although the show has yet to give me anything to actually care about other than a smattering of silly faces.

Preview:

Spirits and surfboards.