天下制覇

Your official title is stupid.

Impressions:

"I'm an amazing concept and background artist, but can't draw characters or motion art."
"I'm an amazing character and motion artist, but I can't draw concept or background art."

This is the incredible story of how those two people overcome off-screen non-existent challenges to come together, like a particularly banal Reeses Peanut Butter Cup commercial. No, how obvious and corny the above combination is is not a thing that is commented on. We could do with a little postmodernism here, to be honest, or self-awareness at the very least. It starts with the kid being magically transported into a world of wonder just by watching some anime, then she gives a Cliffs Notes rundown of some basic visual direction stuff complete with the obligatory outsider character explaining how shockingly deep visuals are when you stop and think about them for a quarter of a second, then we end with being magically transported into a world of wonder just by looking at some art. Basically, it's every show about being interested in something. At least flying a robot dragonfly is a little more visually stimulating than the usual transportation into a pocket dimension of cherry petals and/or sparklies.

It's certainly a Yuasa show; permanently janky and very flat character art, exagerated movements, excessively detailed backgrounds mixed with excessively undrawn backgrounds, and I think that's going to be the only thing really to carry it for a lot of people. It's not saying anything interesting about the subject matter or the process, and I didn't get any indications from this episode that it's interested in ever doing so. Like most things of its ilk, it appears solely interested in a sloppy tongue bath towards anime, which always leaves a bad taste in my mouth when it's coming from anime. Even Comic Party, one of the first of the self-indulgent things in the more modern animation age wasn't a nonstop bombardment on how wonderful and magical anime stuff was just by sheer dint of existing. I suppose it also had the porn angle, which ain't nothing.