天下制覇

Screw this one train car in particular.

Impressions:

You know, it's pretty damn prescient of him to be carrying around bottles of blood, just in case. That's pretty much all of the praise I have for the first half of the episode though. Mumei's buried under debris, feeling sorry for herself, and having poorly produced flashbacks. It's as thrilling in 'action' as it is on paper. Meanwhile, Protagonisto is fighting a poorly produced quasi fight against another horde, half off-screen. You'd think if this was his moment of transition into being awesome, we'd be a little more focused on him being so, but nah. We'll keep that mostly offscreen and have her just declare it while debasing herself. That'll definitely have the same effect.

The second half (well, last quarter), when the amalgam thingy finally got into the caffein and went nuts was a bit better… sort of. The animation certainly picked up, even if the art got very noticeably squibby during it. Still not as good as the opening episodes though, mainly because it was more concerned with looking cool, and so we have a 'tense' fight on the roof of a train with the titan zombie just hanging around not doing anything while regular zombies rain off it, but characters stopping to pose dramatically, and Random NPC and his quest to… unjam the mechanical thingy from the other mechanical thingy so that they could… PUSH A LEVER. A little less handwaving, please. And in a surprise, and the core of the zombie titan holding it all together? The pregnant woman killed a couple episodes ago. Killing her makes the entire thing explode in a shower of zombies, except they all evaporated or something, because Mumei's the only zombieish thing that falls in their general direction.

So while it's certainly beating down pretty much every other show at the moment, especially in the "anything happening" department, the available room for improvement could still be measured in the metric assloads.