天下制覇

Maybe we could pull it back a little, eh?

Impressions:

This was a weird 180 in a lot of ways from last week and just furthers my belief that the last two episodes here really should have been just one. Everybody was suddenly everybody’s friends, the background characters were getting in on things, and the monster of the week wasn’t even CGI, thus answering the question of "Why are the monsters CGI here?" Captain Kicky there was not what I would call a particularly enthralling fight. I think most of the budget went to trying to make Captain Crazy look as weird as possible. Whatever tone they were going for with him, they didn’t hit it. Like Ver with Symphogear, it just looks completely silly. And yet there was also a stirring speech about friendship and believing in something or other, meant to rouse the hearts to overcome this dastardly villain… who is clutching himself and drooling. Perhaps some xanax would have sufficed.

I’m less than enthralled with the whole forgotten childhood friend I’ve been in love with forever and ever and ever angle (with an extra forgotten childhood friend on the side, no less!), even if it is starting to strain the "Natsume pretending to be a guy" thing past boringly painful and straight into Mr. Magoo territory. If you’re going to have a terrible idea, you might as well make it as goddamned terrible as possible after all. I guess this means the gang’s together then and they can go off solving mysteries or saving the environment or or turning off the gas leaks so they all stop being flushed or whatever the hell they’re supposed to be doing.