天下制覇

A+ direction.

This show and RPG Real Estate are likely to be delayed if not next week, then in the near future, because Dogakobo was in the news yesterday for their office becoming ground zero for a covid outbreak, so they're completely shutting down for a week or two. One would think that might have an effect on animation production.

Impressions:

The worst thing about this show is the OP. Not because it's bad, though it is annoying, cloying JPop, but because it advertises a surreal crazy-ass fantasy full of well-animated crazy adventures while the actual show itself is pure Nice Guy wish fulfillment banality. Give me that other show. They go to a carnival and the whole thing is a Through the Looking Glass Parody, or an episode of spy action that he imagined for sports fest or whatever. I could absolutely watch that. But no. The protagonist's whole personality is that he has no personality, not that that keeps him from chewing up scenery like a cow with its cud. And here's the cute girl to dote all over him for absolutely no reason. No story or plot to speak of. Just twenty minutes of a girl fawning all over a dude.

This isn't a relationship. This isn't a story. These are caricatures, not characters, and not even the fun, neurotic ones like Yamada. The constantly cut to an explosion of sparkly background makes that clear. There doesn't need to be life threatening drama or evil monsters running around, but if you're not going to give anything any depth, even the barest conflict, the slightest tinge of development, growth, maturing, epiphany… you're damning yourself to nothing but superficiality. And there aren't any wacky gags or slapstick as you'd find in these kinds of shows of the long ago. As if the problem with the magic girlfriend shows of yore like DearS or Sekirei was too much story and zaniness.