天下制覇

At least nothing made any sense.

Apparently the actual Japanese broadcasts of both this and Basara Academy were preempted by a volleyball game that ran late. Thanks, Harukana. Not sure if/when the latter will find its broadcast. It's scheduled for a couple days from now, but there could be a web 'simulcast' like this before then. I'm not really keeping an eye out though. I'd also be remiss to not note that Yuuna's Bathhouse Brothel had its second OVA episode too. Like the first, it was all about taking baths, this time focused on the tanuki bathing around and gawking at boobs, hers and the muggle family's.

Impressions:

It's hard to pick where to start with this show. Let's start with the good then and work our way down. The fights are kind of animated. Not all that well, but compared to other historical and/or boy harem shows minus the girl that makes it a harem, they're certainly more animated than that. I also think that it thinks  it's being cheesy and over the top. At least, that's what all the repetition and corny lines announcing how hot blooded the one dude is approximately every three minutes would suggest. It could, however, just be a really lazy writer. It's hard to tell. And then we get to the twin headed hydra of the writing and directing, both of which seeming to try to outdo the other in terms of sheer disjointed nonsense. Even things moment to moment fall apart.

For example, when they're found on the ship, they can't fight because the corridors are too narrow to even draw their weapons, so they have to run away from… dudes swinging their swords like baseball bats in the same corridors. Then, after punching about three dudes, all pursuit and guards around the stopwatch of ultimate power vanish, only to reappear when the trap falls. But then they get out of it because the dude was secretly carrying an entire jacket worth of lit grenades the entire time… against his bare skin. How does that even get them out of the cage? At this point, a ninja nicks the magic watch from them and then, about five minutes and a day later, that sends them to an alternate reality where mechanical dolls roam the streets to act as shot callers for the battery of cannons someone built into a hill pointing straight down, someone's pulled in warlords from all over history to be their personal bodyguards, and fashion's changed to be really into exposed abs.

It's a mess. And I didn't even mention the chained-up dude they found in the basement who's some kind of magic enslaved glowstick.