天下制覇

Great work, Rider.

Impressions:

This didn’t get much better than last week. I believed in you, Silver Link. And to a lesser extent the parody-based offshoots of Type-Moon. And this is how you repay me? With an utterly generic magical girl show? And we are so proud of our joke that transforming is embarrassing that we required near flat out a gong for that ‘joke?’ I can’t even really compliment the fight much. For as decently animated as it was in parts, Rider spent about 75% of it standing around waiting, 15% charging up her ultimate attack, and 5% doing that ridiculous blur dodge thing. Unsurprisingly, her plan of holding still did not hold up against the counter plan of walking up and stabbing her in the chest with Gae Bulg. Perhaps we could have directed that scene to be a little more surprising or at least jarring instead of ridiculously drawn out, eh?

I’m just not seeing a whole lot of ways this could get much better right now unless they radically switch things or speed things up. The not-fight bits, ie most of the episode, are just boring while the fights aren’t particularly well choreographed or directed. For what’s ostensibly meant to be a parody, it’s also incredibly generic and cliché. It hasn’t even tried to do anything remotely interesting and it’s not doing a good job of treading ground that’s already very very well traveled. All it seems to have going for it is the Type-Moon label slapped on top. With two episodes down, the characters have done little to endear themselves while the humor and story are poorly and slowly delivered at best. Unless next week is a drastic step up, I’ll take either of the other transforming magical girl shows over this one. Well… assuming Fantasista doesn’t crap out on its second episode like so many other shows this season have already.