天下制覇

"Check it out! Tits! I mean melodrama. Yes. That’s the ticket!"

Impressions:

I guess I’ll say it was better than what I remember of the OVA. That was 21 minutes of nothing happening very slowly. This was merely 17 minutes since apparently Gonzo already blew the animation budget on Dog Scissoring and couldn’t shell out for the full time that this epic romance demands. It is not a pretty show in any way. The direction certainly isn’t helping either. There’s this scene at the start where one swings a bat at the other and knocks the other over, but the whole thing is shown as a bunch of quick shots of thighs, eyes, hands, and hips. I don’t even know what they could have possibly been thinking there. There’s also a moment later in the episode where he points out that he can see her panties, and it takes an entire three seconds to pan all the way up her, sitting with her legs splayed before she reacts. That’s a rare kind of incompetent direction that you don’t see every day.

So no, it was not particularly enjoyable and between the melodramatic episode featuring morose generic guy and combative angry girl and their laughable sexual ‘chemistry,’ the topless OP, and incompetent direction, I think it’s safe to say that they don’t have any idea what they’re doing here and are just trying to throw crap at the wall and hope that something sticks.

Next Episode:

Meeting the rest of the cast.