天下制覇

The cultist costumes aren't helping.

Impressions:

This is pretty much as I feared. Just an idol show where instead of all the things that they did metaphorically in, say, Party Boy Koumei are instead supposed to be literal. They could've had them face serious illnesses, or gone the comedy route and had them deal with Theme Hospital-style maladies, but instead went for healing a booboo at the start, fifteen minutes of filler, then helping everybody smile as gram-fram waits for the ambulence to come pick her up from Old Person Collapsing But Are Totally Fine Already Syndrome, because it's an all smiles and fluff zone.

There is absolutely no story to speak of. The characters are all as flat and uncomplicated as they come. They do all the idol exercises and montages. They make silly faces. Everybody is going to Do Their Best™. The most positive thing I can say about the episode is that the music was a lot more of the easy listening variety than the in-your-face screaming that JPop inevitably gravitates towards. It's inoffensive fluff at most, but aside from the weird smocks, nigh indistinguishable from any of a hojillion other idol shows that come and go every single year.