天下制覇

I can’t help but think this would be improved if he were a vampire too.

Impressions:

Time to poke the sacred cow apparent one last time. I’ll try to keep it brief. I expect a little more from a main character than kicking people in the shins and crying, which is just about all he did this episode besides getting face-raped with bread. I’m also told that it got all the way to the end of the second chapter of the source in just two whole episodes, which kind of explains why the whole thing is moving so ponderously and seems to largely consist of pans over people staring in shock. The second half of the episode could have been cut entirely, and may as well have been because all attempts to animate anything once again utterly vanished. The only thing with any effort put into the animation period the entire episode was one of the titans tackling a wall, at which point the commercial breaks cut in and by the time we returned, we had just cut away from that entirely because apparently that was too unimportant an event to directly follow up on.

Speaking of the commercial breaks, you should track them down if you can. At least one shows a degree of levity toward the material that I would kill for the makers of the show to have a single trace of. Or at least it’s preferable to hearing Yuuki Kaiji continue to shriek like a stuck pig. Anyway, I remain unimpressed and curious where any of that flash and spectacle promised in the promotional material is. No, a time skip and promises that maybe things will improve do not tempt me either. Outside of the CG, it’s extremely cheap and a wall tackle sure as hell is not going to cut it, the story’s dragging like a two legged buffalo tied to Louie Anderson, and I want to see just about every character messily eaten. There’s the triumverate.

Next Episode:

Bread.