天下制覇

That was fast.

Impressions:

And I regret this immensely. Had I called it quit after the first half, I could've at least labored in ignorance, believing that every episode would be 50% filler, and 50% weird, poorly done action. Instead, this episode was 100% of the former. Twenty minutes to get to the girl moving in with him. He never develops any kind of personality trait besides occasionally scolding her, so the difference between him and the usual worthless sack of flour protagonist is that this sack has a beard and a scowl. Oh wait, I momentarily forgot that 50% of protagonists these days have bad reps because of a scar or 'mean eyes' or something. So just the beard then. Meanwhile, the girl never gets beyond Mysterious Waif Who Is Sometimes Socially Awkward. Hell, she spends the last third of this (half an) episode basically asleep while he putters around his house. All they establish for a greater narrative despite having a sitdown exposition session is that she wants to help the people she cares about. Clearly something that needed a double length episode to start.

So it's a mess. Pacing's awful. Characters are barely existent. Direction is careless at best and can't even seem to figure out what kind of tone they're going for in the slightest. Writing is a snoozefest. But at least they're not spending much on the animation or CG budget. Gotta pick your fights, after all!