天下制覇

A compelling question for the ages, I’m sure.

Reminder. Happy Bread’s off today. Broadcast continues on Tokyo MX as normal though, so its final episode will be broadcast on Saturday. I’m sure everybody is waiting with bated breath.

Edit: Oops. Forgot to hit publish. *ahem*

Impressions:

Ugh. Seriously? This is how you want to end it? Random nothingness fireworks plus Rea getting insecure and jealous over Ranko? A girl who, for all intents and purposes, she has not had any real interaction with ever? Yada yada. "I always cause trouble. Do I really really deserve to fulfill his every sexual fantasy? Etc." Ranko gives a particularly annoying speech about how they both like him and neither should give up, completely ignoring who the entire show is named after, and Rea decides to go home briefly so she can begin… going back to school because she’s a girl. Which she proceeds to tell to Doofus before going into the sex zombie mode again.

Okay, that last part with the biteyness could’ve been interesting and weird if it wasn’t the very ending of the show. Otherwise, no big surprises here besides the kiss bite, which was just a particularly bizarre way to end things. I despise the entire "Do I really deserve to be with him?" schtick regardless, and here, coming off the whole show being simultaneously about her father using her and her pandering to Doofus/the audience in every possible way, it’s even worse. I guess at least it was short, but at the same time, it was introduced and resolved in about a 6 minute span. Now that says compelling drama.

Oh, and if you’re looking for/collection new promos. Place’s next ep preview was replaced by a new CM for KoiChoco while this one had a NakaImo CM.

Final thoughts at the end.

Final Thoughts:

In a theme for the season, it started interestingly. The director took a lot of cues from Shaft’s presentation without letting it get out of hand like Shinbo does. However, it ultimately futzed around for most of its run before an almost laughable ending. There seemed to be approximately four types of scenes, blatantly wasting time, flashbacks for tertiary characters that had little to no involvement with the rest of the characters, saying how it was bad to objectify Rea, and objectifying Rea (and Wanko). Those last two in particular prevent the show from being taken seriously. In one breath, it’s giving speeches about how she’s a person not for other people’s gratifications while in the other, it’s dressing her up in bunny outfits, having her nakedly writhe around, and at ‘best’ having Doofus follow her around with a camera.

So bleh. It had some stuff at the start that interested me, but muddled it all up by being distracted away from the core of the show and trying to both sexualize Rea constantly. The show needed to be more cohesive and on point. Fewer random asides to tertiary characters that were just background material, and especially not in the middle of seemingly important events in progress. The whole season feels like it should’ve been just the introductory arc and didn’t even really use its gimmick besides, again, an excuse to objectify her for Doofus, even as it said that was a bad thing. It’s an okay show, but ultimately squandered most of what it had going for it and all the pacing/focus/theme issues just got worse as the show went on. Oh well.