天下制覇

The world where everyone has but one facial expression.

Impressions:

You never really expect particularly impressive production from these bland teenage dramas, but this one takes the cake. If you ever need to demonstrate a complete waste of the medium of animation, go ahead and show them this. Then again, that's not really fair. Even if this wasn't a bunch of stills, shots of walls, shots of empty sky, and shots of mobile lamp posts trying to pass as humans, there's no story or characters here to waste. It's just a bunch of ungodly boring people morosely shuffling through their day, waiting for death to claim them. And the goddamned setting is that everybody has the powers of gods at their command. Not necessarily the best of gods, but there are a lot of gods to go around, and someone needs to be the god of stubborn wine stains or the goddess of remembering what that one song is that's been stuck in your head for the last six months but you can only remember five seconds of it. But still, they just shuffle around like zombies, completely dead to all external stimuli, no hopes, no dreams, nothing to say or do but sullenly explain things to each other that everybody already knows.

It almost seems like a setup for an "immortality/omnipotence sucks" type deal, except they're neither. They're just bored, boring dullards in a show that seems to have been animated by three people using power point. RPG NPCs have more personality. At least they give you fetch quests if you slay thirty orcs. That holds the promise of reward, and collecting trophy orc butts to then dump on their heads.

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