天下制覇

I’ve decided that God has no part in this show.

Impressions:

It’s amusing to me that as I was chatting about this episode with other people, they kept telling me how bad this arc was… Which means that compared to the other arcs… I don’t even want to know. The fact that the show even purports that there is some kind of confusion or interesting twist with Kasuga’s archetype is also slightly insulting. Every damn dojo in Japan has a girl who is trying hard to be strong/manly but secretly wants to be a sex object wearing the most impossible push-up bra imaginable seen as a girl. They passed it into law in 1987 as the Ranma 1/2 Act.

Production otherwise continues apace at about the same level as the first season, which is to say that it is still extremely uninspired and not all that good. Not to the level of some of the other exceedingly unambitious shows this season, but aggressively mediocre. To the show’s credit, either its music has gotten better or Merry has traumatized me to the point where I can no longer distinguish between good and bad music any longer. I suspect the latter because the music continues to be weird, just not quite as weird as I remember. There weren’t any needless insert songs to blatantly fill in time either… yet. Since there’s a date next episode, I can only imagine montages and inserts.

I really not certain if I have it in me to suffer through another season of this, but the rest of Monday (Sengoku Maidens and Qwaser) isn’t exactly promising either. What to do, what to do…