天下制覇

Good lord, this show.

Impressions:

What a way to start this season and year. Everybody involved with this should be ashamed of themselves. The animators and director for making one of the blandest and most poorly animated things I've seen in a while, but especially the writers for the frankly creepy copaganda that is so over the top that it's almost a goddamned parody. "I suspect your shoes. That's all the cause we need to drag you in and badger you until you confess." I guess it's technically accurate to police activity, if you substitute shoes for "wearing a hoodie" or "is black," but it's sure as hell not a positive thing. The rest of the first half is mostly men screaming about how things are not going by the proper way, either too much by the book or not enough by the book, while corruptly trying to cripple our plucky heroines' activities. Subtle, it is not.

Its primary sin is that it's just boring as absolute hell. The ponytail one wants to be Dirty Harry without any of the action or noir, and the short haired one spends the entire episode searching for a personality and grabbling with existential questions like "why do rules exist?" And the answer it gives somehow manages to make the first part even worse, because apparently the dude from it specifically targets places where he sees teenagers not obeying the traffic rules, because that means that children don't feel like adults care about following the law, so why should anybody follow the law? So remember, kids. Don't skateboard without a helmet or you'll attract pedophiles and burglars. Now let's go get drunk. …What the absolute goddamned hell?