天下制覇

At least from these bozos.

Impressions:

What to say about this… what to say… There’s actually quite a bit to like, but there’s also quite a bit to hate. Strangely, it’s often the same thing. Morute, for example, is an evil horrible woman bent on destroying the world. She’s a big ol’ pent up ball of angst that can’t help but curse and spit on the world no matter the occurance. That doesn’t stop her from suddenly feeling bad about abandoning some guy that she just met. I mean, it’s not like her ultimate goal is destroying the world or anything. Oh right. Also, you can tell she’s an aspiring evil overlord because she wears pink and has a pretty ribbon. Let’s not even get started on the kung-fu teddy bear or the evil cultist cats. All the animal people in general make this show seem very very ridiculous at times. I dread to think about the rabbit chancelor in the next episode.

The action and animation was all very well done, which I always appreciate, but at the same time, there was also some absolutely hideously parts. Thankfully, the good vastly outweighed the bad, but that kind of disparity is a little unsettling. It was still a pretty enjoyable first episode. I thought Kirie wearing fake cat ears to work in the furry restaurant was pretty priceless (though if I paid closer attention to the promo material, that joke probably wouldn’t have been as funny), and while I don’t pretend to enjoy it, the thought process that took the crazy cat cult from "let’s sacrifice a little girl to a plant" to "let’s sacrifice a guy dressed up like a girl to a plant" is one that would normally require deeper analysis. It’s a plant. What does it care what it eats? And if your religious doctrine is so strict as to require human sacrifice, I don’t think a pair of fake boobs is going to sit well with your plant god.

At any rate, it’s certainly nothing new nor particularly creative, but it wasn’t bad either. It was an enjoyable first episode, though Kirie needs to step it up here a bit. He was taken hostage three times by three people over a single episode. Two of them were just unnamed grunts too. We’ll see how well I can stomach the bear once it actually has a real role kuma. I’m not sold on this ‘midget stuffed animal as a blackbelt’ thing just yet kuma. I’ll probably tune in for another week or two and see how this develops. I wasn’t overly impressed with Natsume early and the only other thing on Mondays is Mission-E.

I do really like the OP visuals. The song ain’t bad either.

World Destruction OP

Preview:

The rivals appear!