天下制覇

Well, it’s a valid try, Suzu.

Impressions:

Eh, like usual, far too much fussing around with tertiary stuff while what should be the driving force behind the show sits at his desk with his head down for almost the entire first twenty minutes. Suzu’s flashback and reasons for wanting to save Horizon was fairly nice I get, but I’m all flashbacked out for a long time and it was still preceded by about 10 minutes of so much white noise and unneeded exposition. There is a clear impetus to the story at the moment. Stop dancing around it and get to it.

Focus, focus, focus. Zero in on the core story; going after Horizon. You’ve got a solid cast in the Musashi group, you don’t need to fill time with generic political rambling and exposition. I can take Gin and Garcia messing around because it’s at least focused on characters and them interacting on a personal level and they’ve at least been semi-involved with the story thus far and will assumably be the evil empire’s representatives for whenever Musashi gets around to doing anything. The rest though… it’s too big and too impersonal, especially when they’re mostly doing a good job with the cast. Stop futzing around with the setting and actually use them.