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The security in this place is terrible.

After glancing through the rest of Thursdays offerings (Rampo, Aoharu, and Dandelion), this was the one of the four that felt like it would bore/annoy me the least. I’ll probably end up covering Chaos Dragon’s third episode next week and figuring things out for Thursdays from there.

Impressions:

This is frustrating, because I can see the potential here to make these protagonists really amusing. Maia was decent this week, spouting the typical anti-human racist weirdness and then getting pressganged into servitude by a bunch of janitors, but Golem was about as dull as last go round. They need him to just be off in the corner, doing weird things like painting a racing stripe on his half-mech to make it go faster, or wearing a bag on his head for no particular reason. More Karasuma from School Rumble, less block of wood. At least they got the “in the corner” part right, since he was fairly vestigial to the episode.

It’s still lacking the fun and structure that Evol had, not to mention the budget. This week was a whole buttload of exposition, flashback exposition, and then evil words made some people sick so they flew around some tentacles for a moment before up and nuking the whole place, whereupon Maia was inevitably betrayed and forced out of her old side. That’s pathetic. Extremely pathetic. Where’s the gimmicky fights with the gimmicky powers, guys? Where’s the interaction between characters? Where’s the budget? If you’re going to be flamboyant then let’s be goddamned flamboyant. Yeah, it’s particularly bad CGI, but toss in some gimmicky robot with the power of one word, defeat it with the power of modifying the kanji slightly to some other word, and two characters having some kind of conflict can learn a valuable lesson about throwing away their garbage in the proper recepticle. It’s not that hard.