天下制覇

You're a teenage girl in anime. What doesn't want to eat you?

I'm out for food and whatnot for a bit. There's three new shows today, one a double lengther, that AI show that I've glanced at and does eventually have beam cannons this week, which given the season as a whole, makes it an easy second episode.

Impressions:

Rounding out yesterday's theme of awkward girls, excessive internal narration, and monster eating, we have a very melodramatic affair, quite literally. To its credit, it does a pretty good job at the atmosphere, especially when it comes to the depressed girl simply shutting up and sinking into the silence and isolation of her thoughts, which it gets much worse about later in the episode. I'm not sure it's exactly the correct symbolism though, as her personal sea-world is full of life and interesting things and beautiful, yet loud, music, but is clearly meant to be her fascination with isolation and death. Except we also have the hyperactive comic relief girl who keeps yanking her out of it, which aside from the ending, is the only thing that makes her happy and smile. It could've been an interesting dynamic if the girl wasn't so over the top jokey and being kind of annoying. It's more jarring than it should be.

I don't think that the core premise is all that well presented either, particularly since they start the episode by explaining it, not to mention the title of the show… and the episode… and then it takes the entire episode to re-explain its elevator pitch. An elevator pitch that, once again, is something already done to death, typically with vampires raising either twinks or teenagers, from Twilight to Vampire Knight. You could've fixed the pacing by cutting out probably half the episode. Or if it had more of a budget, really monster'd up the horror of the fight instead of shunting it off to just be some splashing.