天下制覇

And yet, it's the team named after pudding that's truly painful.

Impressions:

Another in Japan's endless parade of two separate shows haphazardly mashed into one, entirely filled with imbeciles. As usual, one half (more like 75%) is a completely toothless non-drama where a bunch of girls are the friendest of friends and everything revolves around them friending it up in the friendest of friendships of youth. And they also fight random indistinct monsters in a parallel dimension exactly like ours, but completely uninhabited. Why? Of all the things they did explain, that wasn't one of them. Because they look sort of monstrous is as good as that gets. The dire consequences of letting monsters run amok in a world where they can't harm anybody aren't actually brought up. Something about the space-time continuum, I guess? For all we know, they're trying to communicate and being constantly murdered. The way the one at the end immediately flees from the pack of feral magic girls and only fights back after being smacked around a bunch before being utterly curbstomped by the bikini squad doesn't exactly scream that we're watching the good guys hold fast against an encroaching threat.

Well, at least it's better animated than many of its ilk. Faint praise, but given that it's JC Staff behind the animation, it's surprising these days that they put any effort into it at all. Doesn't save that half the episode was utter twaddle and the characters may rival the ones in that bike show for sheer stupidity. Their failure in the opening hook is because one of them yelled "Be careful" to the one fighting the monster, so that one stopped fighting, lowered her weapon, and turned around, curious to discover what those strange words could've meant in her situation. Most of the rest of the action in the episode had running exposition over it, which is better than the usual thing of standing at a chalkboard and giving the exposition, but still about as well delivered as another brick to the face.