天下制覇

 

Even when it was moving, it found ways to annoy me.

Impressions:

Rounding out this season’s apparent need to cover every fringe sport about hitting a ball over a net besides sepak takraw, we get the artsy fartsy one. You can tell it’s artsy fartsy because it looks like butts. And you can tell it’s your stereotypical sports show by how the world revolves around ping pong, how someone must always explain everything that’s going on in front of their faces, and how they all have their own special niches, including but not limited to special ping pong based super powers. Yes, the winds of Japan carry the cry of table tennis apparently.

So it’s pretty much like all the other sports shows, only with less adolescent yelling, more adolescent rebelling against the ping pong man, and an extra helping of art. I think they started with the ping pong matches themselves, which are the only part where it looks expressive enough to work, and just lazily slopped everything else down as an after thought. And since the majority of the episode was not dynamic ping ponging, well, it spends a lot of time squatting there unplesantly like a toad. Also, if Kuroko’s Balls or Prince of Tennis tried to pull off this look, they’d be laughed off the court, but since it’s noitaminA, it’s adult.

Since I’ve made my allergy to sports shows clear enough and art makes the back of my eyes burn, I think we can safely move on.