Ha ha. Puns.
Impressions:
I like the idea more than the actual execution. It was largely focused on Kojirou and him learning the Valuable Lesson™ about being a better leader from the dudes he’s commanding. Two issues though, aside from the usual bizarre Cloverworks nonsense, like screenshots of CGI horses over random narrator exposition. First, it really couldn’t get away from the really bad and overly wordy gags. Second, the big victory came over Literally Nameless Dude From Nowhere. So as a capstone to the show, it’s pretty lacking, especially with how the main antagonists are still off doing… whatever it is they’re doing, halfway across Japan, with zero idea or probably even concern about anything going on here. Demoralizing the already clownish new lesser antagonist is also a pretty weak victory lap to end the show on.
Maybe it’ll be continued, maybe not. I’d probably stick with another season if it did. It hasn’t been great, but the bar’s been getting lower and lower these days as reincarnated cheat power and dudes doing a verbal review of their stat sheets take over anime. It did a better job handling its characters than most, with its weakness on that front being that the antagonists were all really obnoxious and some of the protagonists didn’t actually get their own moments to shine. Nearly every episode was about an acceptable baseline of story and character driven without getting mired down in anything or anybody acting particularly stupidly or, aside from the screaming adults, overdramatically, ironically enough for a cast of mostly children during war.
