天下制覇

Shut the hell up and give them the food already. You’re hurting my ears.

Impressions:

When last we left our story, Jubei had died and come back to life in the battle against… I don’t remember. Genetically engineered super samurai or something. So now, of course, when Muneakira comes back to the dojo, they’ve turned it into a maid cafe whore house. Obviously. Unfortunately though, this is a much weaker start to this season. The last devolved quickly from a rather slick and stylish beginning, but this doesn’t even get that far. The action’s weaker, especially in the choreography department, and the supposed fanservice edges on the chirpy and ear piercingly obnoxious.

At least it does provide probably enough threads for the plotline to last the entire season, even if it takes half the episode to get there. There’s the antagonists who show up to curb stomp them because if they can’t track down the ‘real’ Jubei then why the hell not just smash some faces, sealing Muneakira’s power completely (like he ever used a sword anyway), and the killer Jubei is missing/presumed dead. After twenty minutes to reach the first sentence of Flower of Evil’s introductory blurb on the website, I’m not sure that I can handle such a deep and involving story moving so fast.

So basically, it’s about as good here as it was on the lower end of its first run. Not exactly an auspicious beginning for a series that had a number of significant problems to begin with. Luckily (for it), Friday is a wasteland.