天下制覇

I love you, Chiri.

Impressions:

Was it just me or was the art a little dodgy at the start of this episode? It’s always a little hard to tell with Shaft shows, but Chiri and Itoshiki’s eyes just seemed very very off in a few shots at the start. It’s especially weird since they actually did a pretty admirable job of animating Chiri’s short little fight scene against the giant robots.

At any rate, in their festival clothes, Itoshiki bugs Chiri and Kafuka over accessories standing out more than the person. Also in true Shaft fashion, there was no OP this episode either. The credits blasted right by before going into an alien invasion. Mecha were deployed, Chiri became UltraMan Chiri to fight them off, complete with 40 story tall panty shots and her own version of the Shining Finger.

Then Itoshiki escaped into the library and we got to see thebard of the clas tell a story of the King With No Heart… followed by the same with a cell phone… which I don’t think works out quite as well. Then continuing through all the other students, touching all their hearts. Well, except Itoshiki of course, who fears telepathy.

Segment trey had Komori getting a new swimsuit and practically daring Itoshiki’s nephew to peek on her changing. She’s quite the little minx… but she stole his glasses before parading herself around, so he didn’t even get the free show. Then we played "which side of Komori is the front." It was about as exciting as it sounds.

The mecha parody was pretty great, but the rest of the episode was fairly meh. The repeated stories were something I could have probably done without and Komori teasing whose-his-face wasn’t the most entertaining thing in the world. Still, I can’t help but thing that Shaft would make comedy gold if they had their own version of Ultraman to run through. Granted, it’d probably turn out like Ultimate Girls, only with more random gags and less fanservice… maybe… but it’d still be awesome.