天下制覇

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Impressions:

Nothing quite so exciting as an entire episode about a dude sitting in a room, narrating to the audience every single character's backstory while bragging about how cool he is. Just the way its presented has a very "dungeon master reading off the character sheets" approach. Probably half the episode is just flat out internal narration reviewing each character and how unlike him, they're all incompetent and idiots. His only sin was being too cool, which made everybody else resentful. This is not satire. The jokes are how awful at everything everybody else is. And as everybody knows, twenty goddamned straight minutes of exposition is always the best way to tell a story.

Nor is it helped by the animation being quite poor. Servicable would be a compliment, and since so much of it is just listening to a bore drone on, that's mostly all it ever needs, but the occasional times it tries to tell us about his epic battles, it does not have the budget to do anything more than a half-assed laser into an explosion. What is the draw here? It's not the story, because it didn't introduce one. The characters are sharply divided into the hero who is everything good and all powerful and everybody else who are clowns for his amusement or traitorous ingrates, and that's when it bothers to have jokes at all, because those steal away from precious narration time.