天下制覇

Is it just me, or does Naoto seem incredibly short?

Impressions:

Actually, I think what concerns me more is the Doujima household’s spatial-warping cordless phone. Nanako can fit her fist mostly around it, but Yuu can barely hold the monstrous thing. Maybe Nanako just has hands like a grizzly. Not a particularly eventful episode otherwise, just beginning of setup to get to Kanji’s dungeon with the first of the many friend-time events with Nanako for the first half. And steak. Or at least what passes for steak at a Japanese convenience store. Barbarians.

I kind of wish they’d reserve some of this character building between Yuu and the rest of the party (if you can even call it that) for the dungeons where there’d be a little more oomph to it, source be damned. The chase scene was kind of hilariously badly animated for this show too, although it was kind of amusingly silly. Whatever complaints about the art and style there may be, they have continued to mostly do a very good job with actually animating the characters, having them gesture, react during conversations, lean towards the person talking, etc. All the things that keep conversation from just being parades of talking heads. That scene though… speedlines and ugliness in what has otherwise been quite well animated.

Back into the TV and on to manly men next week.

Preview:

Manly manly men.