天下制覇

  

I love flashbacks about asspulling, tertiary characters, and asspulling.

Impressions:

Oh boy! A ten minute flashback! You know how I love those. God forbid any Japanese story ever take place entirely in the present, based on what characters are doing, on the results and effects of their actions. That would be too complicated and confusing. And it’s about repeating itself over and over? Great! Repetition’s even better! And after that, more flashbacks and recap, all to reset the one bit that they spent goddamned two episodes jerking off their melodrama erection over. What has our protagonist learned? If he just sits around on his ass, then reality itself will change to accomodate itself to him.

And therein lies the problem. Now that we’ve introduced a mechanism by which the protagonist (and we’re using the term protagonist loosely) can simply asspull himself out of anything, the narrative is pretty much screwed until they inevitably turn that into a Bad Thing, which was the opposite of what it was this week. Even more than going straight from minor powers with obvious major handicaps as the rule, to altering the very fabric of reality at the cost of marginally worsening eyesight each time you do it. This is not a power that good guys are allowed to have because it trivializes everything. If they’re trying to set up some kind of Butterfly Effect thing where everyone else starts dying because she lives this time, they’re setting it up extremely poorly. Until they put a bullet through Timeboy’s head or recast this as a bad thing instead of the Great Asspull to Solve Any Problem We Feel Like, this is going to remain a mess.