天下制覇

Let's see what the egg has to say.

That all the old raw providers are dead since webcast rips have supplanted them saddens me. That's all I really have to say about these hardcoded subs.

Impressions:

I did technically finish the first season of this, ten goddamned years ago, but it was a mostly tedious affair that I barely remember, and most of what I do recall is the LN fans insisting that it gets way better after the first arc. Which maybe I can believe, since the do-nothing helpless protagonist of that season is now apparently a sanctioned vigilante beating up rogue magical girls with fire extinguishers. On the other hand, apparently the series' entire schtick is that there's a million rogue magical girls all running their own death tournaments in a million different cities.

At the same time though, the death game fad is long passed, especially magical girl focused, though not enough to be novel again, and especially the things that are pretending to be RPGs with RPG mechanics that have to be explained at exhaustive length. It still could be fun if it was actually focused on, you know, the magical girls fighting. Skeletons or each other. I'm easy. But they only had the budget for one little three second sequence. Which was nice, mind you, especially compared to certain other RPG oriented cheat power shows I could name, but that was it. This ain't Symphogear, or even Pretty Cure, which also gets in the way of its aspirations towards being taken seriously.  

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