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Holy no personality, Batman!

Impressions:

Not exactly treading new ground here with Blandy McBlando being whisked away to Wonderland by Manic Pixie Girl Type 1.0 to learn the joy of friendship through trying your hardest over inconsequential things, although the robot death net squads might help that. It might've also helped had they been introduced much earlier in the episode. Say, instead of a long exceedingly tedious intro bit about how McBlando's life is bland, or a montage of how wondrous frolicking in sugar-snow is. You've already made a severe misstep in thinking that anybody would be interested in a character that is a complete blank slate with no personality or emotions. Don't compound it by spending time (but not really effort) driving that home for any length of time. I'm also sure nothing bad could possibly ever happen to Aunt May. And what hilarity it was when they were 'tickled' by the tentacle robot.

So it was a mixed bag, but more bad than good. When it bothered to try with the animation, it was fine in that way that makes people scream "sakuga!" and rush off to post gifs, but it was pretty much just used for dynamic air-surfing and slapping girls upside the face with giant tentacles. One step forward, one step back. The characters universally annoy, both being basically from Mars for their grokking of social interactions. Someday, anime's going to actually treat one of these introductory suicidal bits for some garbage bauble as just that instead of glorifying them as the epitome of pure-hearted friendshipishness. That day sure ain't today though.

Next Episode:

Uh, so… where'd the terminators go?