天下制覇

Oh good, it's the "we have an existing fanbase, so we don't need to bother trying" approach.

That "Other World's Pub" or whatever show ended up being made up of four segments, two eight minute animated things of dudes hanging out at a pub, discussing the food, each followed by about four minutes of live action bits where a dude discusses the same food. That's enough of a loophole for me to spurn it without further note.

Impressions:

I'm going to once again refer back to the creator and writer assuring people that they'd be jumping right back into the action with this series. Apparently, by that, they meant taking an entire episode to stand around, having dour faced dour people dourly give a dour overview of the dour geopolitical situation. Christ, was this episode bad. Not bad like those wrongminded melodramatic things full of overreactions and bad writing. Bad because it's clear that they're not even bothering to try. "It's the first episode. We don't need to actually put in anything. The hardcore fans who will buy 3-4 copies and only want to see the words from the LN spoken out loud will buy it anyway." That's the message this episode screamed to me.

Even if you were coming at this from a completely blank slate, it was a tedious, boring, terrible episode. Nobody did a goddamned thing, and nothing happened. Every character just sat around and got yapped at. The most animated thing was some fidgeting with hair. Scenes dragged on impossibly long. Way to make me want to give Grancrest one more shot. I won't, despite it apparently 'improving' via regressing back to the first few episodes. But the temptation was there for a moment. Grancrest burned that bridge with close to two straight months of episodes exactly like this.