天下制覇

There are more important things than interdimensional economic clowns.

Impressions:

So, this is apparently going to be not all that different from Merry, except about money. And the real world is so colorful that it feels like I’m watching Yu-Gi-Oh. There’s certainly some interesting visual direction going on, especially at the start, but there’s also some really incomprehensible direction too. For example, when Pinky the Clown comes to recruit Generic Protagonist, he teleports into his room, then teleports the room into a black misty dimension, then starts teleporting all over the place before sticking his head through the table. In the middle of all this, GP just tries to ignore him so he can concentrate on his homework. Now, I’m obviously not a fan of the overacting protagonist archetype where they scream their bloody head off at every little thing, but I think he’s taking the presence of an interdimensional clown harassing him just a little too well. I did find the glare he gave to the guy his little crush was dating potentially interesting though. I doubt they’d actually go anywhere with a dark/jealous side in a Japanese super awesome hero, but who knows.

Another parallel to Merry, the only interesting things going on are all happening in the alternate world… which they only spent about five minutes in, most of which was spent sort-of explaining it and watching the antagonist-apparent beating up some desperate NPC with a giant bee. Has anybody using a giant bee ever won anything? Ever? The fight was also nowhere near Tatsunoko’s usual levels either. Even Sket Dance’s little action scene was better than that. Our protagonist only barely made it into the world in the last few seconds of the show.

I’ll probably give it at least a little bit next week to see if the protagonist and his so-far barely seen partner are going to do anything interesting in the other world and which world is going to have the focus, but I can’t say that it’s really captured my attention yet as anything more than Yet-Another-Partnered-Fighting-Show^tm. Since this is a ‘mature’ show, they have monsters and/or girls instead of pokemon. Thrilling. Hopefully Tatsunoko can step it up next week. Other than Dog Days, this season’s a little light on action so far for my tastes.