天下制覇

I don’t think it holds up poles though.

Just for the record, the actual terrestrial broadcast was delayed 40 minutes today. Blame Nippon TV.

Impressions:

Well, at least we finally got a break from Sugane. That’s something to celebrate. I think they’ve missed the mark a little bit with Dirty Red though, and especially Joe’s fight with him. He just sort of flew around, then flashed a cellphone and we got about 15 seconds of watching traffic lights and cars spaz around leading up to… a couple chains smacking Joe in the face? Not even an electrical attack? Also another case where him opening his mouth successfully removed a lot of the menace. Sometimes things are better off left to the imagination, especially when the alternative is close to operatic wailing and verbal diarrhea. Not terribly surprising either, he’s intimately connected to Rui, to the point where Ruin collapses in the middle of the street in screaming agony over the power that I have given to this horrible monster!

I really hope that wasn’t supposed to be Utsutsu’s moment of focus either. I’m not even really sure why they’d just stick a couple minutes of that in there amid an episode otherwise practically entirely about Dirty Red and Rui. Actually, and somewhat bizarrely, the protagonists were kind of out of place for most of the episode. Utsutsu’s bit and then Hajime and friends after that were just kind of there without any real connection to anything else. The silly bloodless corpses made their appearance too, this time from being run over, although they did draw some black lines coming from one’s mouth. Maybe by next month, someone will have a bruise. The magical murder frame-up was handled pretty badly again too. Literally seconds after crashing into a lightpost, the cops grab the woman standing twelve feet away outside the car for it. If they want to use the body copy for it, then that made no sense. If they want to use the amnesia magic or whatever for it, they’re not showing that very well either and taking it a little too much on faith. Or maybe they realized that knifing people was played out so switched to an ugly CG car at the last second.