天下制覇

I don’t think Sunrise knows how to draw male bodies.

Index will probably a bit delayed. It’s not out yet in a form I feel like watching, and I’ve got a date to go decorate a friend’s tree in about an hour followed by dinner and such… which isn’t a euphemism for anything unfortunately.

Impressions:

As expected, not the most terribly interesting of episodes, and they cut out the second boss fight in a row (against Dist no less!). They also added in a scene where Peony accepts Guy as a Malkuth noble, but I’m pretty sure that it was just an excuse to show his rappigs and more blushing Tear. Thankfully, they did cut out the extended sidequest stuff where the party abadons the people of St Binah in mid-collapse in order to go find a machine that can fly. Here, Noelle just shows up in the Albiore. I’m honestly not certain which one is better, but I know that I’m already tired of Sunrise’s pilot seat crotch shots. Just because there’s a woman driving some kind of vehicle, that doesn’t mean I want to stare at her from her crotch.

I was glad that they highlighted the suspicious stuff about the Curseslot seal and Fon Masters a little bit more in the anime than the game, especially since the game never gives any real context about exactly how many Fon Masters there really are, so it’s not really that suspicious that Sync can use Daathic artes too. It still doesn’t answer the question as to why Ion didn’t remove the Curseslot waaaaaaaaaay back when they first found out about it, but maybe Ion’s just a lazy little bastard. I certainly found this shot of the Abyss harem unintentionally funny just for the sheer amount of concentrated estrogen.

Overall though, boring segment of the game, not particularly interesting episode either. The highlight was Guy going berserk, but that was a rather underwhelming little action scene and pretty much 100% identical to the game, right down to the deus ex earthquake. At least it does look like they’ll be speeding through the rest of this relatively boring middle of the game so we can get to clones leaking out of every pore.

Preview:

Wonderful. Noelle’s crotch. Just what I wanted to see.