Apocalypse Hotel #10 — Crime Scene Cleaner
June 10th, 2025
Two episodes in a row of manhandling corpses, huh?
Impressions:
Another mess of an episode that just shows that this is now the Wacky Tanuki show with the original premise binned. It kind of seemed like they were going to do a Weekend at Bernies thing when a random alien dropped dead, but then it turned out to be a… I forget the entire list of 'hilarious' adjectives, but bomber terrorist is fine. Then another one shows up which they use to have the new brat, Ponko's daughter, do all the same not-exactly-racism jokes which are totes fine when they're aliens. Mostly, she seems to exist because they realized that they accidentally got rid of the obnoxious brat girl character, so had to pull a new one out of their ass to do the same schtick as before and do shenanigans/eat WMDs.
And then, six minutes from the end, the episode suddenly shifts into horror movie reference spam. Note, not parody, references. As in they're watching not-Psycho. And then there's the door scene from The Shining. Well, kind of. If you squint just right. An axe like object and a door were involved. And by spam, I just mean those two. Then the second alien also spontaneously drops dead, as these aliens do on Earth. Seems like something interstellar travelers should be aware of, not to mention a hotel catering to such. Hell, even just covering up a random guest dying strikes me as grossly irresponsible and endangering of the other guests. Could've full committed to either the Weekend at Bernies thing with having to trick Yachiyo, or horror thing, but as ever, got only small dabblings and references without actually becoming real parody.
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Your apparent inability or unwillingness to engage with what has quite clearly been a black comedy since its early episodes and to instead nitpick the most asinine and inconsequential aspects makes you come across as both joyless and immature, and it is your own great loss that you cannot enjoy one of the better anime originals of the past few decades. Good day, sir.