天下制覇

Now I’m tired again.

Impressions:

Well, it wasn’t a bad episode, and given my not-so-fond memories of the series, that may be the most praise you’ll get out of me. It was well-made, consistently presented and delivered, and didn’t have any of the weird misplaced drama and direction problems that plagued the series itself. There were even a few parts where I chuckled. As far as this show goes, that’s practically genius. I’m glad that they didn’t try to cram in any extra deep meaning or the like and just went the "normal brainless DVD special" route with this.

That said, there was almost no TK and what little there was, he was completely out of his element. That is unforgiveable.

More importantly, it’s not the kind of humor that I prefer and they didn’t do much to mix up the jokes. The whole plot is back into the "mess with Tenshi" side of things, this time with everybody pretending to be REALLY EXCITED (keeping in mind the Japanese’s not-quite-correct understanding of "tension") to get her to lead them to God. That means that the whole thing was spent with people screaming their bloody heads off. It’s frankly exhausting, especially when some of the characters were already high strung enough as it is. If you believe that the louder a joke is told, the funnier it is, then this will be amazing. It’s still decent otherwise, but you may want to have some speed handy just so you don’t feel wiped out by the end of it.