天下制覇

Apparently we do.

Both this and Tsugumomo have one hour premieres today, although the latter's broadcast is just a single episode. The second episode was 'aired' online hours ago, but has yet to pop up in any of the usual places, so… we'll see. It's debatable I'll watch over 30 minutes of either at any rate.

Impressions:

Character escaping from super secret facility. Seems like something you generally figure out in just a few short shots. Maybe need a minute at most unless you're trying to impress something like super powers or a special flavor of gore. Instead, we get five goddamned minutes of watching the girl trudge through the rain and various people rambling about it while staring at monitors. Sometimes, we watched characters watching monitors. And then, a girl riding a giant arm fought another girl dressed as a maid, and talking is a free action for everybody. So it's not a double length episode because they had to pack in so much that it was bursting at the seams, but because the pacing is godawful.

The next five minutes would be spent introducing the other half of the title, again, with no real interest in moving things along or actually establishing a character, at least as far as having a personality is concerned. And again, after five minutes, the 'action' begins again, this time with some amazingly godawful CGI cars, arrows, and chains. My favorite moment though, is when he slams on the brakes and pulls into a parking lot, but the scenery keeps moving outside the car. Then they get shot at, and it turns out, they were indeed not moving all along and still in that same parking lot. Or wait, maybe it's when all the people with world altering super powers, perfectly fine with causing mass destruction in their wake, are completely cowed by being scolded, and the crowd of passersby applauds. To the old man who just hit three girls. Who caused at least four or five traffic accidents and explosions in the middle of crowded city streets. The writing is certainly a few levels of spectacularly awful, or par with the direction.

I don't see Little Witch nor Tsugumomo up yet, so I guess let's move on to the second half of this.