天下制覇

Darkness what now?

Impressions:

While the ritalin suppository did both good and harm to Legend², it had nothing but good effects on the second episode of Campanella. Almost every part of this was so much easier and less ear piercingly difficult to watch than the first episode. Almost every. I could have done without the closeups of heaving breasts and Carina humping Leicester’s leg. I’ll give the swimsuit festival at the end a pass though, mostly because they all actually have pretty good choices for bathing suits… or maybe it’s just because all of them except Agnes were in sarongs. It is quite overwhelming that they’re still tossing in new characters left and right. Outside of Minette, the automata, we also got Gorgonzola’s father, Carina’s father, random spirit/dragon/genie out of nowhere, and some guy who brings an axe to a beach. Hopefully they’re just getting it all out of their system. Plus, Garnet’s goddess-speak is about the only one of the multitudes of strange Japanese speech patterns that I actually find adorable.

The fight was about as expected. It wa never really serious, but considering that Romano is carrying a rifle that shoots balls out of its scope, that’s to be expected. The dragon was defeated by Minette’s magical glowing befriending glow of glowiness, at which point it turned into a pokeball carbuncle to be used later, or eaten, or made into a decorative friendship bracelet. I’m not really sure of the details. There was all sorts of generic fantasy nonsense about her power and Ale and Anima Perila or something. I completely tuned out when that started and just listened to the delightful little warewas. Once you’ve heard one bit about mana, you’ve heard them all.

I’m probably going to stick with it. Besides, it seems like the undeserved whipping boy for the season, and like Polyphonica and Juuden, that makes me want to cover it out of sheer spite for the pack. Regardless, this was a relaxing and fun little episode that fixed most of the problems I had with the first one. It’s definitely not a high impact show, but as far as a way to spend 30 minutes on a Friday, it’s quite nice.

Super late edit, but I have no idea what was up with the oddly detailed oranges. Somebody had either entirely too much time to sit around and draw oranges or they got their photo filters confused.

Preview:

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