天下制覇

Um, if you say so.

トワノクオン (however you choose to translate that) is a theatrical series like Break Blade that Bones is releasing as movies with a couple month delay before DVD/BRDs. So basically… an OVA series with a theatrical showing first. The series is supposed to be six episodes long total.

Impressions:

A big strike against this as far as the overall viewing experience goes is that Bones has released extensive PVs of this. The PVs total to about 15-20 minutes and the whole thing is a little over 40 minutes long. If you’ve already watched them, then you could fairly safely skip almost the entire first half of the episode. That’s… not something particularly exciting. You wouldn’t be missing too much (or anything) by doing it either. The whole thing feels like the story started about 5 hours into an RPG. There’s the giant protagonist party, the eeeevil government agency, the girl with mysterious white mage powers, and the competent yet totally personality-free protagonist who happens to have a pet owl. Heck, his party even have a priestess and a giant breasted ninja who just happens to have a boo-boo on her butt that she needs the protagonist to kiss better.

That’s really its biggest sin. The episode (movie? whatever) certainly isn’t particularly ambitious with its story, but it’s clearly tying to make up for its lack of meaningful plot by throwing in a billion different characters to cover every possible cliche and the end result is that nothing gets enough focus to be anything more than fluff. Even the titular Quon and his magical owl get barely anything. The only character that had any real screentime (note, screentime, not development) was the White Mage/Damsel In Distress, who just blundered around without any clue about anything else going on aside from randomly healing her grandmother with the power of rocks. Wait, wrong show. 

Anyway, It’s your usual super power schtick about a bunch of plucky teens with powers, all conveniently from drastically different social cliques, fighting against The Man. Granted, you don’t need a whole ton of setup or exposition for that, but having fifteen or sixteen characters over a forty minute span stops it from having enough focus to care about any of them either. Having already seen nearly half of it in the promos too, I was a little underwhelmed. If you haven’t watched the promos though, the fights are fairly well done, so you can at least fast forward to those, shut your brain off, and enjoy. Just don’t expect the rest of the movie/episode to add much else to them.

Preview:

 They fight Ex-Death apparently.