Zero no Tsukaima – The Princess’ Rondo #12 — The Power of Contrivance
September 21st, 2008
Don’t underestimate it.
Impressions:
Well… that was truly godawful. Louise had a dream about Tabitha and Saito together and lost confidence in herself, so could no longer use magic. Therefore, when the giant golem last boss appeared, everybody had to scurry around like ants until Tabitha decided to make out with Saito and Louise got all uppity again. Yes, I’m not kidding. It sounds like something that should happen as a filler episode partway through the series, but no, this was the big climax. This would all make a lot more sense if… say… Louise had failed at resummoning Saito way back in episode three and this had been built up as the central theme for the show… which way back when, is kind of what I expected, but it was completely dropped for 9 episodes in order to come back full force in this one. Why? I have no idea.
Then at the end, after a magical artillery shot destroys the golem in one hit, everybody gets welcomed back, the villains laugh like maniacs in the distance, and Tabitha kidnaps Saito. LOLSEEYA NEXT SEASON GUYZ. They’d have to in order to wrap up… say… any of the villains actual plans and such. Hell, the antagonists weren’t even particularly set back. Sheffield just had a few bruises while Captain Crazy wasn’t even part of the fight. I guess the animation was above average for the series, but still not particularly amazing. Don’t mind me, I’m just searching for something… anything positive to say here.
Final thoughts at the bottom.
Preview:
I expected little and I got little. Well, I got annoyed with Noto, which probably counts as a minus, but the show was pretty much more of the same, albeit this time with a little bit more fanservice and nonsense and a little bit less adventure. It’s tough to be too hard on a series when you expected it to be mindless time consuming drek in the first place, but whatever. Go ahead and insert whatever complaints you may have about pacing, nonsensical plot, villains, etc etc etc. At least it inspired me to write some poetry one week… if you can even call limericks poetry. I’m really not certain what else to say. It was a nice diversion during the weeks that Nabari got distracted and obsessed with developing its yaoi overtones, but aside from the lack of anything else happening on Sundays, really not a recommendable show except to those extremely bored or with nothing better to do. It threatened to be amusing, or at least passably interesting a few times, but in the end, they had to fabricate a crisis by recycling a thrown out plot device from the start of the series.
Well bloody done.
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