天下制覇

I didn’t feel like typing out the three titles, so I decided it’d be best to just go with Spanish instead.

Impressions:

I don’t have a particularly positive relationship with the Kenshin series what with being one of the endless Jump shows from back in the day. Well, that means I don’t have much of a relationship at all with it because my hands begin to itch when I’m in the presence of any Jump show that goes on for greater than 5 minutes. Still, I hold Trust and Bunny no real ill will. I’ll even go so far as to say that I consider it to be quite good, a radical opinion I’m sure.

So after a decade of the series sitting around gathering dust, it’s time to put their best foot forward to sell some old DVDs, right? In a word, no. If given multiple words, I’d probably just stack profanities together. This is no Tiger and Betrayal at all. If you were hoping for some flashy action and badass badassing, then you’re not going to find it here. It’s back to the standard Jump standby of people standing around and talking as a preface to people standing around talking which leads to people standing around explaining why they’re talking before they talk about how they’re going to attack and then talk about what their attack might do. Well, we may not have gotten that far in this one, which should show just about how enthralling it was compared to usual Jump faire. 

It didn’t help that the production was rather horrible too. The art’s frequently bad, clumsy CG is tossed around haphazardly, and the animation is embarrassing, doubly so for an OVA. They’re… They’re just dragging the character art in a circle. Just what kind of horse is that? Yeah, sure, it’s Deen, but they can do brainless action. UBW and Electric Spidergirls showed that, not to mention any number of snippets from a dozen other shows that seem to pop up and then disappear again for no rhyme or reason. Sadly, there’s none of that talent to be found here. The music was fairly decent at least and the backgrounds quite nice, but show me a show worth watching for the backgrounds and I’ll eat my sheltie.

So bleh. It’s not good for eye candy, it spits things out in the middle of the story and just has characters talk and talk and talk and talk, and the most competently done thing is the background art. I’m not even sure rabid fans will enjoy it because the original has got to be better than this. At least, I really really hope.