They know that looks awful, right?
Impressions:
At least it made me laugh. That’s better than most comedies. Not with it. At it. I spent a lot of the episode very bored and idly thinking about how weird her hair looks, which made me wonder if I was hyperfocusing on it since big drill hairs aren’t really that unusual, especially in these rich girl shows. But then they got to the obligatory performance bit, she turned into CGI, and good lord, I was not prepared for how godawful that would look. Her hair is just… a skeleton attached to her. She bobs and moves around as she plays guitar, and her hair is as rigid as steel. It’s like she has a bike rack strapped to her head that’s flailing around with every little movement. It looks so horrendous. And then especially at the end, the drumming is super stylized and may legitimately be the best animated little scenelet of any new show so far. It’s such a jarring juxtaposition of some actual animation talent, and the complete abandonment of anything that could ever possibly look good.
But that’s just the closing couple minutes of the episode. The rest was Every Single Rich Girl’s School Show imaginable. It’s the same cliche one. She’s the same cliche commoner who’s there and constantly screaming in her head about how close that was and she was almost caught. This was so done to death ten years ago that there was an entire cottage industry based around this cliche, but with the protagonist having to forcibly crossdress. Yeah, they’re less common nowadays, but MariMite is dead and buried. …I think. Oh god, what if it was a zombie. …Huh, wait, what if it was a zombie? You know, a kind of School Live thing, but with rich girls going gradually insane and eating each other?
Yeah, the point is, about 17 minutes of this episode was the same tired ojou-school comedy-but-not-really that’s been done hundreds of times before, mostly in the 2004 to 2010 era, and then a few minutes of absolutely baffling CGI followed by a little bit of real animation and profanity as a treat.
