天下制覇

I was having enough trouble taking this seriously already.

I’m so on the ball for the holidays that I’m covering things before they air. Or LeTV (think Chinese Crunchyroll) accidentally leaked the episode an hour and a half early again. Either/or.

Impressions:

The first third of this episode was an impressive display of wasting time, which was then followed by self-flagellation and spanking. And no, I’m not just exaggerating for humorous effect. If an attack wasn’t just a flurry that caused a magical impact at an unspecified spot, then it was a spanking. And after this utterly thrilling and exciting first half of wasting time and spanking, it was time for another flashback. Yeah. Over the past two episodes, this guy, who has had all the importance of the damned dog to date, and will likely have even less from here out, has apparently needed to have about ten minutes of flashbacks having nothing to do with the overall plot of the show. I wonder if all these tournament fights are going to contain so much blatant padding.

So anyway, if you’re in a hurry or something, you can safely simply cut out the first fifteen minutes of the episode and assume that it picks right up from where it left off last week and lose absolutely nothing. And the rest? Same problem as most of the other action scenes in this show. I know I said it before, but they obviously know how to do great action. They did it with the Satsuki fight, but they’re too content to half-ass it with speedlines, those awful flurry loop things, and characters that won’t ever goddamned shut the hell up. At least make it some witty back and forth instead of just damn shouting about yourself for five straight minutes before you go shuffling off into permanent obscurity again.

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