天下制覇

I miss creative censorship.

Impressions:

And in this iteration of the Sekirei/Freezing/Demon King formula, we have… pretty much the exact same formula as always. I think Incompetent Male Lead With A Magnetic Attraction to Women’s Underwear is slightly more magnetic than usual. The sparkly magic kisses were already done to death by Sekirei too, so that just leaves the magical pets, which is never a selling point. It really doesn’t bring much more to the formula besides those two things. Well, I guess it does have a rather large proliferation of convenient light beams blocking out… whatever those mysterious pieces of cloth between women’s thighs could be. It’s a mystery. Or there’s always the theory that their vaginas are just emitting beacon lights to try to attract a mate like some kind of jungle tree frog. Frankly, I think both theories are equally likely.

Unlike Majikoi and Horizon, this certainly doesn’t bring any significantly interesting action to introduce its main cast. They do make a slight effort at it, but the animation’s jerky and it’s mostly just shoddy cycled animations anyway. Animation otherwise is fairly bland to average over all. This doesn’t come even close to any of the Saturday action shows at all. The direction is your usual affair for these shows, with the camera mostly just below the skirt line, so… not really breaking any ground there either aside from all the glow. It doesn’t do a terrible job at the mass introductions (still grinding that axe!), but everything is centered on Takeru and he is already in a strong lead for the most infuriating sack of crap for the season. While I’m piling things on, the music’s pretty terrible too.

Even for this particular breed of show, this episode was pretty terrible. Maybe like Devil King, it’ll get better in successive episodes once Takeru becomes slightly less of a sack of crap, and I’d hate to think that after being relatively strong production-wise lately, AIC was going to phone in multiple shows this season, but maybe they’ve just given ASTA all their talent. Then again, Tuesdays are awful this season too. Maybe I just need Chihayaful and Mashiro to recalibrate my standards for me. On to those!

Preview:

Butts and glowing butts.