天下制覇

However will she overcome this crisis?

Impressions:

What worries me the most is how Nodoka is still rocking at least a C cup despite supposedly being about 13. That cannot possibly be healthy. Just what kind of dairy steroids are they feeding her? Maybe it’s that opaque bathwater Japan uses, although then you’d think that everybody would have them. Maybe it’s just giving them all cancer and Nodoka was one of the ‘lucky’ ones to end up with the tumorous growths on her chest and the other one got giant hair from it. Well, actually, you never really can tell how much time passed when the Japanese begin montaging. I just assume it was a significant due to becoming ENDLESS ETERNAL FRIENDS over it, but also knowing Japanese anime writing in general, it might have been all of a day because as you know, in the anime worlds, females are forced to either swear a bond of eternal semi-bisexual friendship after making eye contact or devote their lives to tearing out each other’s ovaries through their throats. Those are the only two options.

I’m rambling because I don’t have a lot to say. It was a very very by the books introductory episode. Here’s the main group, they’re friends, now they’re separated, GASP, let’s get the old gang back together in the most convoluted way possible that involves shouting out your feelings to anybody unfortunate enough to be passing by. It wasn’t abysmal, but at the same time, I can’t think of a single notable thing to say about it either. Animation wasn’t bad, but it was far from good, especially with the cheap montaging in there. If you just switch the gender of the characters, this would be practically indistinguishable from any of a hundred children’s ‘sport’ shows when small children scream at each other about friendship. It’s not like mahjong is actually important here at all anyway.