天下制覇

And art abuse too.

New Season Disclaimer:

I try to watch at least the first episode of every new show in a season. However, do not expect anything I say to be fair or balanced. I value my own entertainment above all else and there are some genres or methods of presentation that I just plain do not like and I’m not going to pretend otherwise. I’ll attempt to at least make a cursory explaination of what did and did not please me about each show, but it’s just a simple fact of life that my tastes are mine alone. Feel free to express your own opinions in the comments, just keep it under control. This is just television after all.

You know, I’m still not quite sure what まにまに means. It’s not in my dictionary, and looking it up just returns a bunch of poetry using it like bequeath… and an Earthbound boss. It is a blemish on my soul.

Impressions: 

I think this one somehow managed to trump Canaan for amount of trope recycling. We’ve got an energetic sociopathic girl and the whiny guy that is her plaything and coerced into her club. At least they switched it up and stole from Excel Saga to provide us with a male version of Hyatt to be the club president. What it boils down to here is that I despised Saku from the very start and then he dug himself in deeper by spending the entire rest of the episode whining about Mihoshi. Speaking of her, as if having a horrible pun for a name isn’t punishment enough, she frays my nerves to the breaking point. Pick your favorite dissocial personality disorder female and just overlay a fascination with stars and you’ll have her. I suggest Momoka from Sumomo Momomo, minus the procreation instinct.

Production’s sort of a mixed bag. It usually looks decent enough, but there are quite a few details that they clearly just didn’t quite finish drawing. I particularly enjoyed this shot, featuring not only a girl with six fingers, but a guy with a left hand attached to his right arm. Lots of other minor props and background details also looked quite deformed throughout most of the episode. Music was average enough. I liked the ED, but it just played over the end of the episode as the credits ran.

This gets a resouding "bleh" in my book. I actively dislike both of the leads and I’m not sure there’s a creative bone anywhere in this show’s production office. They’d have one hell of an uphill battle to redeem either of the two, and I’m really not willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, especially with the far more entertaining GA also on Mondays.

Sora no Manimani OP
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Preview:

Introducing some new girl.