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Yes, my corporate masters.

If you’re in the states, you can watch this on Hulu here.

Impressions:

This turned out basically 100% as expected. Heavy on the CG yet not actually doing anything particularly interesting or impressive with it. It’s just good enough to be used as a shortcut to keep the costs down. It didn’t look as bad as the trailers made it out to be, I’ll give it that much, but I still don’t like it. At least throw in some decent choreography if you’re going to make me suffer through plastic looking things bouncing off of each other. The episode was also boringly identical to what they’ve already put out in the promos. The first half was just little vignettes of each hero showing up, doing something, and then posing and the second half was 10 minutes of "Hey, Tiger, you’re old and lame. Time to get a partner and new job!"

It also doesn’t help that the entire setup really makes no sense.Okay, they have the heroes who they film while doing hero things and assign points with Tiger ending up on the chopping block. But most of the ‘hero’ show was focused on him twisting monorail tracks, getting shot, etc. Meanwhile, you have other heroes so inept that they show up late and try to hide, get their oversized minotaur horns stuck in cars, or flee when a criminal begins to wildly fire into the air. There are only half a dozen heroes and you’ve shown about half to be comically incompetent while the rest simply vanish as soon as they save one person and get their points. And you’re trying to sell the guy taking bullets that was the focus of the show within a show as the one on the chopping block?

So… meh. I like light hearted superhero shows and all, but this didn’t have much of a hook to it. Sinceit barely touched on Bunny Barny at all this week, so far it’s just another aging sports star story of which there have been thousands before. Not too many in anime, sure, but even Major League riffed that cliche over two decades ago. The plot didn’t cover anything beyond the two sentence blurb that’s been out for months, the writing at its core makes even less sense than Dog Days, and the action was uninspired at best. I may give it another look next week just to see if they’re going to actually do anything interesting with the giant monster that showed up at the end, but I wouldn’t count on anything more than that.

Preview:

Wasn’t there a giant terrorizing the city?