天下制覇

  

I love the month before the end of the season when every single show completely stops trying.

Impressions:

I can actually feel my spleen recoil every time someone says “X years ago” in Japanese at this point. It doesn’t help that it feels like everyone in any piece of Japanese media is incapable of telling a lie unless it’s because they’re insecure and/or self-destructive, so we always end up with these ridiculous bouts of exposition that nobody should believe in the slightest, yet are always taken at one hundred percent face value. And yes, like Tokyo ESP yesterday, the entire first half was utterly wasted everything with nearly three minutes rambling on the kinds of faces people make, so that’s why I spent a paragraph talking about the first 90 seconds. Blogging.

Not much else happened of any note or worth, which is actually kind of impressive considering that they didn’t even bother having Eggboy show up and still managed to just sit around staring into empty space. When part of your direction involves “slow zoom in on dinner,” it should really either be time to reevaluate what you’re doing or make sure that is the most spectacular looking dinner ever. The princess is the super specialist person ever and everyone wants to be like her, whose-his-face is still having his episodic PTSD attacks (now with extended flashbacks!), so on and so forth. The only thing of note was at the very end when Angsty Girl was having a Flashback Angst Attack in the shower and the world’s worst maid walks in to insult her some more, leading to a strangling and crashing, but the princess is obviously not dead, so all I can see this adding is another episode of fighting on the bow of a ship in the ocean while they recover/repair and Angst Girl getting an extra helping of angst. Joy.