天下制覇

Those seem like unwieldy weapons.

Impressions:

This was much more like the first season in a lot of ways. Mainly that half the episode was pretty stupid. Tense situation! Tsubasa in trouble! Here’s some normal girls looking at it. And two cutesy girls with wacky music playing. And this guy eating noodles sloppily. Yeesh. Thankfully though, around about the nine minute mark, it pulled itself back to the action, got the tone back in line and found the budget again. It was still eight minutes that were kind of dumb and served little purpose though. Couldn’t Maria have menaced some people or cut Tsubasa’s pretty face or something?

The second half (well, middle third really) was great again though, even if it got a bit cheesy toward the end once they mass-Noised and went for the triple super song combination ultimate explosion typhoon adjective noun. Isn’t it a little early in the show for that? Shouldn’t this be where the antagonists just straight up beat them so they can power up, saving the big ultimate team up for later? Maybe they’re holding out for a six-way song since two thirds of the antagonists are about as menacing as puppies. I’m starting to get a little worried that they’re blowing all their budget on these opening episodes. I like the scythe girl’s design, but the head Frisbees/buzzsaws is a little too ridiculous to take seriously, not to mention that the stylizations for her attacks her utterly phoned in compared to everyone else. Love Maria’s cape-fighting though. Very Warachia of her. And how well the fight flowed with everyone just jumping in without long introductions or speeches about coming to the rescue keeping the pacing and tension in that section from letting up.

Sorry, no clips this week. Still on a temporary computer until early next week, and it’d pretty much be the entire middle third anyway.