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Bizarro world!

New Season Disclaimer:

I’ll make a post for almost all new series (barring sequels) with a wrap-up and bullet point opinion of each once the premier week is over. Remember that these are just my kneejerk reactions to the first 20 minutes of shows, many of which in genres that I don’t even particularly like, but I do believe in giving every new series at least an episode to interest me.

Impressions:

Whoa… I was expecting this to be… well… repugnant (good word, that), and it actually turned out to be pretty decent. Hell, I’ll even say that it was pretty good. Everybody could stand to be aged by about 5 years, the downs syndrome could be toned down quite a bit, and the OP should be dragged out into the street and shot, but otherwise, it was a really solid all around first episode. Like I said with Kemeko, there is not a single show that could not be improved by adding excessive violence and property damage. This really is a lot like a more loli-ish and fantasy version of Kemeko, and really that’s really the problem with shows like ZnT… not that the girl is violent, it’s that she’s really really incompetent at being violent. That’s really what makes this more than just a giant chin’ed sex-swap of ZnT… well… that and the far far better animation/worse art. Still, I wouldn’t have minded them dropping a few frames to get some girls that didn’t look like rejects from Toei’s Kanon.

Macademy doesn’t have that problem at all, at least for this episode, though Tanarot wasn’t really totally sentient for most of it. At the very least, Suzuho’s Midnight Downs Syndrome Vampire form has a gunblade, complete with Squall’s Blasting Zone limit break. The rest of the cast of characters is equally bizarre, perhaps even moreso. The confident bishi with his combat maid is pretty much par for the course, but headless shota teacher, super sentai classmates, and a giant ball of dwarves are only some of the things that they just barely touched upon during Tanarot’s rampage around campus. Hell, just the use of the exploding power level scouter was worth a laugh.

We’ll see how this one develops I guess. I did rather enjoy most of this episode, though I can see this one going south really really fast. So long as they stick to the wackiness instead of ramping up the already pretty thick (and often disturbing, given the somewhat deformed art) fanservice, it could be a pretty fun little show. Or… it’ll ramp up the fanservice, the production values could drop, and this could be a horrible horrible disaster.

Macademy OP