天下制覇

That's eight exclamation points.

Impressions:

Where does one even begin with a show like this? The premise is just so bloody awful, but at the same time, Xebec really spends absolutely no time trying to defend it or explain it, skips all the wangsting around, and by the halfway point, they've introduced the sadistic rival character who's KOing jobbers with phantom ass-shots to the chin while grinning like a murderer. Meanwhile, the deuteragonist is performing a complex dance that makes her ass appear like her breasts to psyche out her opponent. Which isn't to say that the animation was particularly good. It leans on 'impact' stills as badly as most other sports shows, but at the same time, it doesn't constantly cut to the peanut gallery or internal narration to comment on things, so it doesn't feel painfully dragged out.

I guess my main thought in the end is more or less "Would that these characters were in a show where the content wasn't so… this." It does provide further support for my old theory about how there's a tipping point where a show's gimmick becomes ridiculous enough that everyone gives up on trying to normalize it and just goes at it full bore and that always turns out better, because lord knows this isn't the first of its ilk. The characters are all enthusiastic about being there, and the whole expositionless introductory fight bit elevated pretty much all the named characters involved. Still, give them a random assortment of weaponry and while still lacking on the actual action front as far as production goes, and it could probably be a relatively decent if generic not-a-LN-but-basically-a-LN show. As it is, I feel confused and dirty. And pretty sure that physics do not at all work in any way that they're trying to sell them as doing.