天下制覇

Although I bet Saint Seiya would be improved with a robot maid.

Impressions:

Unfortunately, quite a lot of this episode was already in promos… probably at least a third of it. That detracted from what was already going to be a show expected to be more endured than watched. It was especially bad in the first half when it was almost all either promo material or characters standing around making sure to recap the situation at hand as a preemptive protection against either of them contracting amnesia, which is more frequent than the common cold in Japan if anime is to be believed.

It was still better than my memories of the one episode I watched of the original incarnation. Granted, that episode was dominated by someone whining about how she wasn’t as good as her sister, had Kugumiya Rie squirting highly caustic breast acid all over the place, and then ended with breasts crushing infinitely-expanding breasts until one of them exploded in a shower of breast, so the bar was already surpassed when the necromancer pirate leapt off her airship in the opening minute. Her shirt then exploded to reveal that she was using starfish as pasties. …Or has had surgery to turn her aereolas into a starfish shape. Now that’s bodacious pirating.

The art and animation was typical Arms faire; frequently laughably terrible because they take to budgeting and consistency like a hedgehog takes to a swimming pool of wine. Everything surrounding the caravan scene when mecha maid’s breasts inflated to break her robes was particularly horrible. They probably ran out of money after animating the fight shortly after that, but the general direction and choreography of that fight makes me wonder if the animators spent the morning swimming in wine themselves before they put that together. And then Lotte summoned an invisible horse that she rubbed her nipples against to save shouty girl. Well, at least she didn’t wear the horse, although I have no idea how anybody could ever mistake her for a guy.

I… guess it’s better then? Make no mistake, this is far from good. It’s probably far from average, but then I remember all the Maken-Kis and Ikkitousens and I’m forced to admit that this was a better episode than most of them spit out on their best days. I wouldn’t really say that it’s improved though, just that it’s doing far fewer things horribly and unwatchably wrong.

Preview:

Not the octopus!