天下制覇

  

I don’t want to puzzle out the numbering with the OVA, so let’s just call this episode 1.

Impressions:

I wondered how awful the broadcast would be animated after how barely animated the OVA was, and the answer was extremely, although the hellaciously awful censoring might even overcome that. I don’t even know what was supposed to be going on when he mutated. Sure, there were a bunch of shocked faces, but they were pretty much the same faces as before. It decided to trade the rape melodrama card for the sick childhood friend melodrama card. Of course, the kind of sickness where they look perfectly fine and have no symptoms whatsoever, becoming only more and more tragic. Although there’s not really much tragedy here. I think he spent more time with strange liquids seeping out of his eyes and nose than she had screen time, not to mention that the entire thing took place in a flashback taking place over a few minutes that the bear spent apparently chewing on his crotch. And no, I’m not exaggerating. Even if you remove the flashback, between the reactions and people commenting on it before he hulked out, the bear just sat there gnawing on him to apparently no effect. So we’ve already got ridiculously drawn out and moronic covered.

From that, you might assume that it was not a good first episode. And you’d be right! The first half was entirely concerned with making a pro wrestling match against a bear as boring and melodramatic as possible without having its cubs weeping in front of them, and the second half split between a tour of characters and a talking head laying out the plot for the slowest members of the audience. Wouldn’t want to confuse people by jumping right into something as complicated as “fight alien-monsters” after all.

My impressions haven’t really changed much from the OVA, except that even less happens here and it’s so ridiculously censored that I doubt even people who would want to watch it solely for shock value could find anything to enjoy. It’s overly melodramatic, production is godawful, and takes a whole lot of time to do very little.