天下制覇

Some puns are too easy to ignore.

Impressions:

Who doesn't love fights that end unceremoniously with one side just giving up. Both the ghost, and the snake lady who just went catatonic for no real reason. Really selling how much this girl existed solely to be fridged, huh? But that wasn't the marquis fight. That one went pretty much literally the exact same as previously; about a minute of 'animated' indistinct CGI clashing and then the sword dude remembered that he has an always-win special attack, so began spamming it. Except now, because we've run out of episodes, Denji can counter kick it, leading to one of those super corny "I killed you 40 seconds ago and we just had an entire conversation without you realizing it" scenes that I wish would leave the anime lexicon forever.

I rewatched Yozakura Quartet over the holidays, and my god, the difference between the way it puts together and especially resolves action scenes is stark. A focus on cleverness and characters, for both sides, not total invincibility until abruptly not for no real reason. But especially the elevation of the characters themselves, which this certainly could've done, but chose to put down a hell of a wall in between fighting and feeling sorry for themselves, and never the two shall meet. Some (most) characters hardly even got that. Power in particular got to do nothing but fight some zombies, mostly offscreen. She had more screentime being groped than being actively involved with the story in any way. 

No doubt a sequel will be announced soon enough, because lord knows this resolved jack and squat, but I'm pretty sure I've seen enough. The pacing was laborious, contrivance was at every turn, and for its characters supposedly being its strength, most were barely allowed to even exist in the story, and the few exceptions were there solely to be groped or violently killed to spur all the important characters into action.