天下制覇

This was a painful way to begin the morning.

Impressions:

While things like Fuuka and Honesty are reprehensible garbage, they're somewhat coy about it. This was aggressively painful from start to finish like it has a grudge against its own very existence. The protagonist absolutely never stops screaming and making stupid faces. Murderous ghost? Scream and make a stupid face. Suddenly died? Scream and make a stupid face. Woman talks to you on the street? Scream and make a stupid face. But the most bizarre part is the music. I thought at the initial meet-cute that it was just being particularly heavy-handed to remind us that this is a BL production, but the soulful wailing kept up even while it was delivering half-assed, pointless exposition.

Basically, it's a Jump show, but Chinese, with a particularly weird romantic soundtrack. For every one punch thrown or magical blast, there's three or four paragraphs of characters explaining what they're not doing, all the while the protagonist narrates every insipid thing going on around him and/or overreacts by screaming because he's not actually a character but some kind of shrieking lunatic that would've been thrown in an asylum decades ago in any sensible society. It's more than just him too. For how little happens, you'd think they'd be able to make the narrative not be idiotic, but they screwed that up to. There's this 'twist' at the end where the monster had taken Whose-It hostage and was posing as him… immediately after we watched her let him get away and say "Let's let him go." That's not a twist, you morons. That's insane people being utterly illogical for a garbage surprise that was just a vehicle for yet more goddamned exposition so one could explain her plan and the other could explain how he saw through it. Stop. Stop now.

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