天下制覇

…I don't understand this. Is it some kind of flex?

Impressions:

I expected to spend most of this post distracted by the lanky designs, but it turned out to be the white line through the pupils that I couldn't get out of my head. I've seen no-noses, random polygons, excessive glitter irises, Clamp lankiness obviously, but random white semi-circle? That feels like a new weird stylistic tic. Which isn't to say that the proportions also weren't weird. Especially in the scene with the kids. Even if we say that every character is about six feet tall, those children would measure about a foot and a half. They're like evil little mogwai roaming about.

But it is still a dumb club show, emphasis on dumb. An upsettingly well animated one, mind you, but the protagonist is an overreacting twit who yells in reaction to everything, and explodes into sparklies at the sight of any ballet. Being a dispassionate, cold blooded iguana myself, it just makes me roll my eyes. Kids. And dare I mention the emo dude who keeps himself locked in a dark room doing ballet until told of a rival who can challenge his sheer ballet-ness? Well, that's next episode, so probably not, but I'd rather bring him up than dwell on the protagonist yelling, or joining ballet from a mix of watching one dude giving him a raging dance boner and being randomly dared to do it. I feel like it'll spar with Birdie Wing for being the most palatable of the many sports shows this season, but this is playing it as a straight sports drama instead of being unhinged nonsense. The latter is a lot more to my tastes, and somehow feels less silly than being transported to Nirvana by watching a half naked dude do a pirouette. 

Next Episode:

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