天下制覇

Fantasy anime is around 95% tutorials now.

Impressions:

Barring Dark Machine doing the impossible and having a good second episode, I'm very close to giving up on Tuesdays. At least the other Bandai show, that Nia Liston reality show cheat power nonsense, is still getting animated. This felt like it was the tutorial for Suikoden's patented team-up attacks, mixed in with the tutorial for them getting their Stars of Destiny or chosen one magic powers or whatever, which are just that they now glow when attacking or defending and instead of not working, it works. Cool. Very chosen oney. So much prophecy. Either they were really trying to just one to one match the PSX era animations for both, or the budget is not there. I assume the latter with the former being the excuse.

A single tutorial battle against an evil gas cloud that can't decide if it's an evil monster or sexy lady is all you get this week because we also have to fit in a long completely unecessary flashback about the past time they learned how to fight. Which is also a monster completely unknown to all of them by how they're flabbergasted at encountering it or how to fight it. The start with the army battle? They just knocked down the house, without affecting the roof at all, mind you, judging by the exterior shots. Then blew it up, without affecting the interior, since everybody in and around it was completely unharmed in any way. Are we sure all this was even happening in the same house? Maybe one just spontaneously caught fire. Your imagination can fill in the gaps on a PSX RPG. Not so much like this.