Dream Eater Merry #03 — The Silly Hat Alliance
January 20th, 2011
Why yes, I did try to pick the four most misleading screencaps.
I’ve decided to go with this over Magica because the latter reaches a far worse level of tedium for the lion’s share of this. Yes, I’m aware what happens this week in Magica too. Only because I got sick of the episode after 5 minutes and started skipping around to find the pair of one minute segments where something notable occurs. If you didn’t see that coming though, you’re long long overdue for a refresher course on monomyths. I can already imagine certain people getting moist in the panties at the thought of finally having a chance to use the word "sparagmos." That show has been sticking to Campbell’s formula to a T… albeit at a fairly glacial pace. Besides, it’s so much more fulfilling to damn something with gusto than to blandly note that another episode passed where 95% of it was used on padding out the episode yet again because they clearly ran out of the budget after a minute or two of animating the single hook of the week.
Impressions:
Anyway, on to Merry and its own fair share of bizarre happenings. Instead of dealing with the girl that got eaten by a nightmare or whatever the hell happened last week, we get some completely random stuff that furthers absolutely nothing. Merry befriends some kid who has no friends… except for some nightmare demon that pops out of nowhere and starts screaming about how it had been betrayed. Unfortunately, it spends all its time screaming and making faces and is just dragged around by its cheek before being slapped and sent back to magical nightmare land. They’re really putting their choice in a director that specializes in action to good use, eh? Dropping CG bowling pins takes a lot of talent.
It was a step up from last week though. While it reeked of wasted time, production was a little tighter and Minato is probably the third most likeable character on the show so far after Isana and the donut with sprinkles on it. Their eyes did have a curious way of being not quite centered, but I figure that there’s a lot of peyote involved in this project at some point. I still wanted to slap Yumeji when he called Merry a super hero and suggested calling her Dream Eater Merry. You are not a good enough show to try and be self-referential like that and get away with it, damn it.
Preview:
Shouldn’t we get back to the girl that was eaten? Or one of the three antagonists you’ve introduced?
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WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU NOT BLOGGING MADOKA? SHIT JUST GOT FUCKING REAL THIS EPISODE.