天下制覇

 

Exclamation points!

Hamatora’s the only new thing airing tomorrow, but it’s not until after work time, so I’ll get to it and Ravens whenever I do. Same goes for basically every weekday show this season besides the two bleh ones this morning.

Impressions:

Boy, did this go from understated to characters simply screaming out exposition about each other in a flash. Coincidentally, that’s about the same time that I made a sound kind of like “Urrrrrrrrrrgh…” This was about 90 seconds into the episode, so it was not off to a fantastic beginning. I imagine the sound I made was probably something like the sound the animators made when they were roused from their drunken slumbers to work on the episode before soon going back to sleep. That would explain the singularly odd little hallway run that may have had close to as many animation frames in its 30 seconds as the rest of the episode combined. 

It’s another one of Japan’s seemingly endless supply of comedies where shouting, speedlines, splash screens, and a vibraslap are the punchline and the joke is your damaged eardrums. Being startling may work once or twice, comedy, horror, drama, whatever, but once it’s routine, and when the visuals and direction are off having a little cry in the corner the entire time, it’s just noise. And this is something I’ve said way too many times lately. I’m really quite tired of being shouted at in Japanese. I get enough of that every time I try to pay for my dinner at the Sushi Hut in honor.

Next Episode:

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