天下制覇

We truly are living in the future.

Impressions:

Typically, when the art gets this rough, it's because the focus has been put on vibrant, stylized animation. That seemed to be the case for maybe 10 seconds. Then it was time for speedlines. To its credit, there is certainly a director showing up and trying to make something out of the reeking pile of dead fish that comprises the art, animation, and writing budget. Unfortunately, the only tool in his budget is the split screen. And even that is sometimes a little too much effort, so let's just pan around the room while imbeciles announce each other's relevant character traits. I don't know about you, but the conversations with my coworkers often are me listing off everything I know about their backgrounds and personalities while they happily ooh and aah. Is that a step up or down from having them announce the current situation and how they feel about it? Because they do that too.

It pressed a lot of my buttons, who be the takeaway. The ones that make my eye twitch and ponder the Van Gogh solution to the shrill yelled overreactions that traded in the dull haze of idiotic exposition for active irritation. I'm not even sure what this is trying to be. There weren't any visual or auditory stingers that would (falsely) indicate a joke had been made. There sure as hell wasn't any kind of action or drama. It's just basically… here's a particularly stupid set of girls (and mind you, they spend a while each announcing how stupid they all are), and they're sort of magical, I guess. Their pet is a living shrimp. How quirky. Is that a joke? Probably not.

The art style may be quite a bit off kilter, and the direction at least present, but those don't even begin to address that the entire cast are blithering imbeciles that even the Muppet Babies would look down on for being both too annoying and too slow in the head.