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The official JC Staff OS.

Impressions:

Well, this is quite JC Staff. Just as KyoAni A-Channel can’t seem to stop putting the camera between girls’ thighs, since this is a show with Rie playing a combative tiny girl protagonist, they are unable to not pan up her thighs every other minute. And have Rie shriek every single line. Tone it down a few levels, damn it. At least the male lead is okay, even if he just basically just the detective version of Amaenaideyo. If the action were better, that could have gone a long way to helping show him as a competent badass. Instead, him flipping a comb into his pocket and striking a couple poses while bullets magically miss him is about all we get. No, disarming Rie doesn’t count. A braindead chimp could have done that. Also, I get the ‘blood boiling’ or ‘juices flowing’ imagery just fine, but could they have gone with a liquid that doesn’t look like porridge?

The other main thing that sets this apart from the other half-dozen JC Staff shows like this is the overuse of CG. CG segways, CG bullets, CG guns, etc. And like I said, the action isn’t even that interesting or well-directed, so I’m not sure why they’re so desperately budget conserving right off the bat. Aside from that, this is about as by the books as it comes from them. Decent production all around, but nothing impressive. The art is already getting pretty janky though, and even moreso in the preview for next episode, so I can only imagine even more CG segway villains incoming. Or more likely in the usual JC Staff tradition… nothing at all.

So… meh. I’ll probably give it another episode at least, but if you’re sick of JC Staff spitting out these shows year after year, there’s nothing new enough here to make this notable yet. The male lead has his moments, but if he’s going to be stuck in a show of fighting CG segways and endlessly screaming Ries, there are plenty of other things to occupy my time on Thursdays instead.

Preview:

Nice chin.