天下制覇

I mean who wants to see superheroes in a superhero show anyway?

Impressions:

Rather uneventful episode until the very end, which meant that I spent most of the episode playing "Spot Where the Lip Sync Isn’t Even Close," a disturbingly easy game with this show.  I don’t know what it is about Japan and when they find these settings involving super powers, transforming origami space vampires, murdering insane shapeshifters, and shady crossdressers taking orders from a computer that sounds like a four year old where the first instinct is "Boy. We better steer clear of this. More school antics! And put in a five second loop of music through that entire sequence to drive them all insane!" The penultimate scene could have used a little blood too to actually sell that scene. Or even just sort of a pseudo-censoring with camera angles or something. Clear shots of a bunch of bloodless bodies laying on the ground doesn’t flow well into "guy with knife just stabbed half a dozen people to death." Also, why’d they arrest his buddy? I found a plot hole!

I’m also still finding Vaguely Evil Habbo Hotel not… well, menacing probably isn’t the right word, but we can go with it. The whole Social Media is Evil^tm thing is pretty played out to begin with, not to mention that it seems like kind of a foregone conclusion what with politicians tweeting their dicks around on it all the time. I’ll say more or less the same thing as I did last week. Give Shouty McAnnoying a rest and let Hajime go fight crime and learn/teach life lessons to the rest of the gang for a while. You’ve got antagonists. You can even introduce more if you want to defeat them. Go stab something with scissors and stop being so deathly afraid of your own premise.