天下制覇

  

There seems to be a lot of that going around lately.

Impressions:

Well, I guess on one hand, they didn’t even try to rationalize letting the clown join them in any way, although I’m pretty sure there are much bigger issues with him than just “he killed some guy.” He did murder an entire room of them before dropping a severed head on the table. That gave way in the middle to one of the side characters who had about three minutes of air time so far offing herself because of Too Much Diseaseâ„¢. Granted, they did do a bit better in showing her degredation than the bazillions of other shows that piss on about Too Much Magicâ„¢ or Too Much Darknessâ„¢ or whatever, but still nowhere near enough to actually sell yet another character who existed just long enough to be yet another tragic death.

The transition of Rentaro from being trodden on by the man to absolute dictator stabbing his men for talking back with mass-murdering clown henchman was a bit abrupt as well. It’s not a bad move, but it’s not one that they’ve actually built up to well, nor does it come from any particular reason, his back’s not up against the wall, there’s nothing new that pushed him over the edge or is forcing him to act like that. The entire party’s a little too easy-going with it too, the only real conceit being Tits declaring her undying loyalty. There’s also a bit of an issue with the last boss already having its head blown off once and the way to defeat it is to just use a magicaler bomb. I don’t even see the point of the sabotage from Captain Disappeared For a Month and a Half And Has Now Returned Elevating His Childish Spat to Truly Suicidal Levels and Somehow Convinced an Entire Group of Soldiers to Let Everyone They Know Die Just Because Some Lunatic Is Having a Tantrum either. Now the ass-pull won’t work? And… I’m supposed to feel what about that? Or is he going to hang around and merge with the thing to become the True Last Boss or something?