天下制覇

Well this was abysmal.

Impressions:

And here we are, three weeks later, and I can barely remember what annoyed me so much about the second episode. Wait, no, it was the 20 straight minutes of low level inane exposition about what points in a game are. But luckily, this one begins with boxy CG cars and exposition about what teams are. And how they’re color coded. And how being a higher level is better. Sigh. Nothing says exciting like minutes and minutes of staring at stills of people ‘talking’, but oh, here’s a picture of their table. And their coffee. And some random other customers. And a distance shot from the ceiling. There were literally almost seven straight minutes of the characters just staring at each other. Then they realized the audience might be bored so showed a shot of her showering before it was back to another five minutes of blankly staring.

So the only part of it that wasn’t a complete abject mess was the end when he was inside and/or on top of Chiyuri. That was only an abject mess, but at least it had some emotion and the characters were involved with it. Terrible ones since one is Haru and their relationship has had all of about 60 seconds of focus before diving into crying about how they’re supposed to be super special friends, but it still beats listening to someone read out the contents of a particularly verbose and redundant game manual.

Preview:

It gets 5 minutes next week to not be horrendous before I switch gears and talk about rape dragons instead.