天下制覇

It’s funny because it makes you want to shoot yourself.

Impressions:

Ugh. You know there are issues when every interstitial is twice as long as usual, four times as obtrusive, and contain more visual gags than the rest of the episode. And I hope you like puns and simple written ‘jokes’, because that’s what about 80% of the humor this week is. There were a few decent gags here and there. I enjoyed the super-fast generic bad romance anime that probably came right from Jump, particularly the hot blooded shout of COMBINE in place of the wedding night. The joke the show ended on of Shino as some kind of judo yaoi master was also at least something they put a little thought and creativity into, although that scene was so obviously stretched out an extra 15 seconds to reach the end of the episode that the impact was a bit dulled.

For the most part though, this episode completely eschewed having even half of it being combined and went for full on ADHD the entire run. The longest unified segment was the judo bit at the end and even that only lasted about 3 minutes, at least forty seconds of which was spent on watching Shino walk and watching people watch her wrestle. What happened to that budget, GoHands? Skipping around like a hummingbird on Speed also doesn’t help when you’re trying to introduce a new character by giving her a cliche character trait (hates men) and then having her disappear again. I hope we don’t see Kaede again.

Preview:

Sports festival apparently.