天下制覇

Normal people don't even think about eating other people.

Impressions:

You know, Japan, the declaration "I'll be your slave because you told me to, but I won't marry you" isn't the plucky cry of female empowerment and determination that you seem to think it is. The best I can say for this show is that the conversation between them about how much he'd like to eat her brought back happier thoughts of Guardians of the Galaxy. Sure, there might have been rapier overtones here with him leering in and talking about how delicious she would be. This is Japan after all. Well, I guess if I'm being perfectly honest, the best I could say is that at least they're not spending much time, effort, or money on this. The art gets sloppy frequently, and I especially enjoyed that one shot in the cherry petals where they were blowing outward from the middle of the screen, like there was a tiny localized hurricane right behind the protagonist, smack dab on an infinite pile of petals.

It's greatest sin is that it's just plain dull. The female lead I guess makes a little more protest about being forced into excessively romanticized slavery than many similar things of its genre, but by the second half, has happily settled into her new life without so much as a second thought. It doesn't really obsess over the food in any way, so I'm not even sure why they're bringing up cooking at all. The two male characters remark that she's a good cook, and she has a flashback to a time when she was told food was important. That would be the entirety of its so-called premise of being the slave wife to a demihuman who can't stop talking about how he owns her and would love to eat her, but since he's pretty and dresses her nice, you know it's only a time before the romance blossoms.