天下制覇

  

“Except when we’re not. Which is most of the time.”

Impressions:

Whoa. They showed someone getting hit by an arrow and bleeding. Careful, guys. You wouldn’t want to get too hardcore. Like pretty much everything else in this show, it undermines how serious it’s purporting to be when the rules for Maria’s magic operate under the same enforcement as the rules as between siblings in the back seat of a car. It’s about half a step away from her summoning a monster and going “Not touching you! Not touching you! Not touching you!” Does losing her virginity work the same way? It only counts if her babysitter sees it happen? Or are there regular hymen checks? Better not ride any horses.

It was an episode of introducing new characters, and since Japanese writers can’t walk and chew gum at the same time, nothing else. The main two were Zeke, her babysitter who can be fooled by putting a sack over her head, and Berny, a priest who has the power of summoning operas wherever he goes and owns cups that clink like metal on metal when dropped on dirt. She was also visited by the Celtic god of sparklies which took the form of a buffalo, because apparently why the hell not? Like all the others, he’s totally going to watch Maria and keep an eye on her, unless, you know, he turns his back and then who knows what she could be doing or where that giant demon cat came from?

Next Episode:

 

More new characters.