天下制覇

You know how I love it when shows try to get self-referential.

Impressions:

AIC’s poor execution was particularly notable this week. Deen probably could’ve done a decent job with the premise of Lily trying to act out different personalities, Ken teasing her, and the more genre-referential stuff, but since AIC does piss-all with the visuals and direction… The first half especially kind of devolved into "the more we repeat it, the funnier it’ll get!" That ran out around the 3rd repetition and it was time to move on, unfortunately, that ‘joke’ was far… far from over. They also did a pretty poor job attempting to cram in the generic ‘touching’ scene with her at the end too. It’s like they completely forgot about it, jammed it in, and then tacked on a terrible "just kidding!" before wandering off again.

Kurimu and Mafuyu in the second half are also not exactly the most well-matched pair for… uh… just about anything. Maybe for maximizing the chirpy voices slowly piercing your brain. They really didn’t do much with Ken and Lily spying on them either. I guess at least she didn’t flip out about him being on top of her or grabbing her when she tripped or whathaveyou, although it was a little hard to tell at some of those points if he was still teasing her or if he was just being thick as a block. Probably the latter in this universe.

Preview:

Field trip.