天下制覇

 

Because just one montage of all the one-off gags repeated every week wouldn’t have been enough.

Okay, I won’t get to IS or KLK tonight. I have holes in me. What do you want? I’ll probably get them and Freezing at some point tomorrow and finish my catch-up with Air Conditioners on Saturday.

Impressions:

That was an impressive display of pulling melodrama out of the ass in the eleventh and a half hour. Ten minutes to wrap up the abysmal Ouka arc and then straight into Chocolat suddenly turning completely insecure over all the females who have been rubbing themselves all over him for the entire show, demanding some big affirmation of feelings or crap. Or making a decision. Or goddamned doing anything. Except of course not, because this is a light novel adaptation and we can’t go ending our franchise! I appreciate the po-faced ignorance of this too as it ends with an ‘affirming’ message about how important making choices is… after god only knows how many weeks of lamenting ever having to choose anything and the big finale end choice being “I choose nothing because I have no will of my own.”

So the only acceptable choice is choosing nothing at all and pretending like there’s some kind of nonsensical drama that something. might. happen. in. the. last. five. minutes! But not before rehashing every character’s joke once again in a truly godawful montage lest we go a single episode without the exact same jokes as the previous nine. And in case you missed it the first time, it does it a-goddamned-gain as it scrolls the credits.

 

Final Thoughts:

Repetition is the killer. While the first episode attracted me by embracing the stupidity of the premise and having an energetic cast that were all varying degrees of insane, nothing quite kills insane like making it pedestrian. Never was there any variety in the characters or their gags whatsoever, every single one of them popping up to do their catchphrase or punchline in every single episode regardless of anything else. What few gags I may have enjoyed once, such as Pink-Head’s fetish-quasi-parody gimmick, flagged after the second time, leaving only another fifty repetitions to make me despite it by the end, and she wasn’t even one of the central characters that received any great deal of focus.

Add to that things like the pacing dragging like a goddamned sleigh full of lead being pulled by a team of chinchillas even while it made godawful overtures of the central plot driving it with bizarrely placed cliffhangers almost every episode, the lead quickly devolving straight into constantly complaining about everything that happens while simultaneously incapable of doing anything for himself at all until ordered by the hand of god and explaining all jokes and being completely oblivious to literally everything and you’ve got just another LN mess, just like this run-on sentence. Attempting to appeal to everything with a shotgun approach, but too afraid to take any risks with the characters or developments to actually do anything with them.