天下制覇

At least it ended even worse than the show's gone.

Impressions:

Well, this was certainly different, but somehow even more godawful. Were you hoping that the entire first half was going to be a montage about how sad everyone was? Because good news, you get a goddamned ten minute montage before we then go back in time to reveal that people were actually magic snow sparklies all along, and for some inexplicable reason, they hand over a super mask and leadership of the rebel forces or whatever to a failed carpenter and general incompetent to pretend to be the dead jackass. This will then be followed by more goddamned montages. This isn't even an ending. This is where it should have been after around episode 4. Screw this. Screw you, White Fox. Screw this show.

Final Thoughts:

About three, maybe four worthwhile episodes, at the start and at around the halfway point. There was constantly the promise that war was going to come even while it spent ten straight episodes with nothing but taking baths and looking at gay porn. War did break out, but they spent both an episode going to it and then immediately left again after one poorly animated fight. The rest of the time was spent faffing around with a bunch of characters who never got any development, never served any point, and never did goddamned anything, including the protagonist, who was the same awkward dumbass from start to finish. His big moment? Blocking an attack in the final battle while the mentor character who should've died 23 episodes ago fought and his fanservice personalityless concubines cast the "win the battle immediately" spell that they had somehow forgotten they had until that moment. But for some reason, the sun and moon revolve around him because he's just that special.

This is a blight upon the original's name. Poorly animated, a pointless cast, and could have easily been cut down about 20 episodes with absolutely no loss of content. It's meandering, aimless drek that I regret sticking to the non-ending that it vomited up.