天下制覇

My brand.

I did glance at the second episodes of both Vemeil and Mew Mew. One had a pokemon battle and then a character had to strip naked just to be naked for a while. The other had them go to the pool to be maximum friendship. It shouldn't be hard to guess which was which. 

Impressions:

Oh boy, another absolutely generic idol show, right down to the CGI dancing, excessively idealized view of a massively exploitive industry preying on impressionable girls, and they're all super energetic gonna-do-their-best! I admit that in the show premise writeups, which were a bit conflated with the related gacha, I didn't think the dude with magic eyes would actually be a thing, but apparently it is. He has magical idol eyes. Okay, so not technically idol eyes, but passion/excitement eyes, which is something that real idols obviously have in spades. This is a very weird and specific special power.

If anything, this episode may be even worse than usual. Not for the production, mind you. It's actually almost upsettingly well animated for the most part, obligatory CGI dance sequence aside. But because it's an entire episode about teenagers begging a dude to be their manager for no real reason except "he's an older dude," and "we can't exist without an older dude calling all the shots for us." So after the opening, about fifteen straight minutes of begging him for attention while he mopes about all the attention he's getting from half-dressed teenage girls. We are very dangerously close to being an episode glorifying pimping. Which would certainly be a direction to take an idol show, and far more realistic than this romanticized dross.