Spinning PenguinDrum #09 — Rats Within Rats
September 8th, 2011
"…Which was also my dinner last night."
Impressions:
Jesus, Japan. Do you know what I would give at this point for you to manage to go a week without a goddamned flashback? It’s particularly godawful here because Himari is barely even part of the show. She’s at best a thinly veiled (if at all) plot device that hasn’t even been used. All she’s done so far is collapsed dead, provide about 45 seconds total of comic relief, and been host to a hat whose screen time has been 90% recycled footage and… oh yeah, its mission has been trivialized since the characters just stand around and stare at each other instead of trying to do it.
So here we are, instead of viewing whatever boo boo Shouma got from being plowed over by a car in the cliffhanger, that gets a giant pause button to cut away to something completely unrelated with what barely qualifies as a side character having a flashback trip inside a magical library. Then what happens? Flashbacks within a flashback. Of their mother being grievously wounded because Himari threw a temper tantrum and knocked a mirror over. This is some kind of magical vortex of sucking. The only thing I found even vaguely intriguing about this episode was the part of the third flashback within a flashback where Himari trying to take a bat to a koi, and that’s probably mostly because that was the main theme of the first episode that intrigued me. Also, a psychotic that might kill the entire cast under some mistaken childish belief could do nothing but improve this show. Man-Utena as some random demigoddish librarian handing out magical hats is moving in the opposite direction of that.
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So you think you’ll drop “seizon senryaku!” ?
It’s pretty freaking slow.