Fantasista Doll #02 — Bringing Yoyos to a Bazooka Fight

July 13th, 2013

 

Then again, the yoyos did take out most of the rest.

Impressions:

I think I’m mainly predisposed toward this because Illya’s doing such a poor job earlier today that mere signs competence ‘impress’ me, to stretch the word, as the protagonist continues to be mostly obnoxious. It’s more than a little strange for them to be hitting the "lying is totally bad and is just the same as betraying your friends" card for any number of reasons, not the least of which is because she hasn’t been shown to really have any friends, and that the secondary lesson was "Hide trap cards everywhere just in case the enemy decides to run along the wall." But mainly because I don’t think that hiding that a bunch of magical golems have attached themselves to you and now haunt every flat surface around you and so you don’t have time to hang out today is the great sin they were making it out to be. She only learned the latter lesson anyway, saving making up for next week after the less than thrilling cliffhanger. Or not since the next episode preview seems to have nothing to do with it.

I’ll figure out what to do about Saturdays next week. Too many damn magical girl shows, all with leads I wouldn’t mind throttling. We can include Kaminai in that categorization just to make it a complete set.

Next Episode:

Stomping on things.

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5 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • Anon says:
    July 13, 2013 at 1:41 pm

    What i wonder, this Calling Dolls out of the Phone with Cards, looks so normal in this Anime. No one care to explain that. You must be some fan of other Magical Girls Animes in the Past to enjoy this, it seems

  • ZakuAbumi says:
    July 13, 2013 at 1:56 pm

    “I’ll figure out what to do about Saturdays next week.”
    How does Genei Taiyo + SundayGod sound? RAGE town is a melodramatic something, so clearly not your thing, you’ve already declared your parting from the entire Milky Holmes franchise, Prism Illya is as bland as it can get and has about 0 jokes other than “In the original game, Ilya wasn’t a magical girl!” and Fantasister is fairly bland as well, not to mention hardly anything other than a magical girlxcard games show aimed at kids to sell who knows what and you don’t do particular well with those, do you? Also, late airing and that always seems to inconvenience you.

    Contrary to that, you at least had a positive impression of SundayGod’s first episode and it does have an interesting premise. As far as GeneiTaiyo is concerned, it’s not quite as bland as the other two magical girl offerings and it’s a bit more promising with the entire girls getting strangled and killed deal.

    Really, it’s a no-brainer to me unless you dislike all of them to the point where you just don’t want to endure them any longer.

  • Flood says:
    July 13, 2013 at 5:51 pm

    I hate to be vapid, but I’m watching this because of the hair designs. They’re not unique, but they are about the best this season.

    I only watch anime because of the hair. Everything else is terrible usually.