天下制覇

So much for that.

Impressions:

Ugh. I don’t even want to talk about it. This entire episode could have been condensed to a sequence playing during the end credits of the previous episode. There weren’t any touching scenes between anybody, no sudden surprises… nothing at all. I don’t think anybody even wagged.

First half of the episode was back to putzing around, then it was off to the ‘real’ world to… putz around… until the magical dog delivery service showed up with his decoder ring to restore his memories and The End. Let’s throw a goddamned ticker tape parade. Even now I’m refraining from making any "In like a lion, out like a lamb" jokes because the ending’s not even worth that. Unambitious to the very very end, even to the point of introducing new characters I have absolutely no reason to care about or ever doing anything interesting at all with a character that the first five or so opening minutes of the first episode was focused on.

Meh.

Final thoughts at the bottom.

Final Thoughts:

Well, this was a mess. The show was unfocused, underdeveloped, and only the second episode’s production lived up to… well… just about anything. All the rest of the battles were averagely animated at best with the only major event popping up out of absolutely nowhere and disappearing again, and we’re supposed to buy that a random demon on the roof was the reason for a prophecy about Shinku and Milly dead inside a castle? Did that thing even fit in a castle? That entire poorly handled development still sticks out like a giant sore thumb in the face of all the time spent playing frisbee or taking walks.

It still had its moments every now and then, but the fact that the cuteness was delivered so transparently didn’t help. It relied far too heavily on characters just being ‘cute’ for the sake being cute, even to the point of all but recycling the same scenes and again, far too much of its time was spent just putzing around without anything meaningful going on. The big moments when something did seem about to happen never lived up to the cliffhangers or hype either. Episode 2 was the only one where named characters actually had any kind of real battle, and that’s unforgivable for a show thematically centered around that. Gaul vs Shinku was almost close, but yada yada, terrible production.

Unfortunately, that makes this easily the worst action show they’ve made so far, and if not for White Album, their worst show period. Feh on you, I say, Seven Arcs. Feh.