天下制覇

"Oops, we forgot to write a main character."

Impressions:

You'd think that would require some major rewrites, but you'd be underestimating the terribleness of Japanese script writers. The entire first half, the protagonist does literally nothing but stare while one dude exposits at him. The rest of the cast almost to a man completely ignores him. It's like this really really weird compromise between internal narration and a silent protagonist, combining the worst of both worlds. Then we jump backwards to the reveal that the dude is actually a silent shoplifter, but whose-its saw him with his magic running eyes. So not only do we have that mess, but someone messed up the page ordering in the script and they decided it was less effort to just go on ahead with it rather than fix it and move the glory of running magic running sight that is clearly supposed to be the hook to this character to the start.

So it's a mess. Most of the episode is spent on flat out expositional introduction of a collection of trite dullards. That's literally the plot of the episode; one guy walking another guy from person to person explaining who they are, what their gimmick is, and then right on to the next. It even goes to the same "walks in on someone in the bathroom" well about three times.  There's boys. They do a sport. One of them has magically sport divination powers. It's almost immaterial which sport it is because mostly what they do is sit around and do nothing. I did my sport drama time with HaruKana for the year, and this is already coming off as a particularly dull one.

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