天下制覇

Cry more, why don’t you?

Impressions:

Ugh. I like no direction that this episode went in at all. The biggest compliment that I can pay towards it is that the corporate overlord’s English is rather fluent. Hers… not so much. Most of the episode was spent on basically a montage and info dump by a heretofore unseen woman investigating the otherworld. A light touch is really missing here. Give only the information that is currently needed and (here’s the kicker) relevant to the characters and what is happening to them, not spew it all out and hope that some of it sticks and is interesting. I’m sure she’ll be more involved in the actual plot later, and it was better handled than Steins;Gate’s brand of info dumping, but it was still someone just listing out details about the world as they mostly went about their daily business. I think she actually spoke out loud maybe four times.

Unfortunately, all of Kimimaro’s part had next to nothing to do with the otherworld… or almost anything else from the past two episodes. It was him learning more about his father, where after learning that he was connected to the otherworld and maybe wasn’t so bad a guy, Kimi broke down sobbing. The whole thing was stilted and felt extremely machinated. Not to mention that it was boring and out of place in Pokemon Finances. Like Q, I was nodding off during that entire abysmal segment. They really desperately need to zero in on Kimimaro and stop rewriting his character every ten minutes. Also, play to your strengths. MSYU is a strength. The world is a strength. Angstiness over daddy is not. Cardboard people bouncing in a subway is also not for that matter. I’m not even sure if that was CG or just flat out terrible. Neither would surprise me.