天下制覇

Except this isn’t Canada, so we’re using acid.

New Season Disclaimer:

I prefer to give every show a chance. You never know when your dream-eating insect Mai HiME knockoff will turn out to be a psychological romantic thriller, or the strange moeblob show will be full of wit and urine jokes. However, my preferences are still my preferences, and while I’ll endeavor to at least convey what  I do or do not like, there are genres of shows that I just plain don’t particularly enjoy. My opinions are based on nothing more than a gut reaction to what I watched literally 10-15 minutes prior and should be construed as nothing more and nothing less than that.

Impressions:

Well, this was exactly as expected. Just like Ikki Tousen GG, the promo stuff covered about a quarter of the episode and around 75% of the interesting parts. The vast majority of the rest was just the girls wandering around topless in bondage ropes with the camera practically shoved up their asses or down their chests. I’m at least somewhat happy that they went ahead and got rid of Melona in the first episode. The slimebunny girl who shoots acid from her nipples and is voiced by Kugimiya Rie is something that nobody wants to see, unless you have an acid lactation fetish. Then again, it doesn’t bode well for the show when the first enemy is killed by pressure-detonating its breasts by crushing them with more breasts. We’re not even going to talk about Leina wetting herself in fear or Hirano being her usual irritating self.

The production was certainly well enough done, but I’m familiar with Arms modus operandi by this point. For every one great episode, they’ll have about one and a half where the big fight is against sharks or done via slide show. The action was decent enough, but the rest of the episode was rather boring. Outside of the first 3 minutes or so and the final 5, I probably would have been better off taking a nap. Even the action wasn’t really enough worth praising though, especially considering that so much of was stuff we’ve already seen. I did really like the scoring for the episode though. Very nice medieval faire.

So I can’t really say that I enjoyed this or was overly impressed. Like GG, they showed me absolutely nothing new, but didn’t manage to keep my interest through the talky talky story parts either. Drama is a poor substitute for a jealous Kann-u. Next episode looks to have a lot more things that weren’t in the promos, but I really don’t know if I want to bother finding out if it improves. Maybe if I’m in a good mood next week or Basara isn’t nearly as silly, but don’t hold your breath.

No OP this week.

Preview:

SHUT THE HELL UP, HIRANO.