天下制覇

This certainly is a show that was made.

Impressions:

Yawn. Even if this did have GoHands's production, it still has GoRa's godawful writing. Especially the protagonist who is stickiest stick in the mud imaginable. He's a boring, depressed slug for absolutely no reason. Every single character in the world fusses over him while he sits there, lamenting his fate over having some water power that he can't control. Even while everybody is explaining to him how common having powers are and how you need to practice to control it, he just sits there, sullenly whining about his misfortune. And yet, also goes along with them telling him that they're kidnapping him and he'll be living here from now on. And yet, decides out of nowhere to dropkick the dude for daring to suggest drinking illegally, which is honestly the first and only not-awful thing he did… some twenty one minutes into the episode.

This episode did make clear that it's a pretty boys fighting monsters show, but "fighting' may be stretching it. Dude slaps it, and then tosses Angsty into it where it just plain blows up. Not much of a fight, let alone anything to get excited about or even threatening to show up in any highlight reels. Granted, compared to Ryza, it's miles better, all the way to just plain sub-average. That leaves the story and characters to carry it, which are just plain generic and rote as all hell. Dude has powers. Is angsty. Fight monsters. I doubt it's the worst thing I'll watch today, but I'm sure anybody who's even a little into anime has seen this exact episode done better a dozen times before. You'd think being an original story, they'd try to be at least a little original.