But I want atteeeeeennnnntion.
There’s still one more show for today, but my host is completely melting down and I’ve had enough frustration over the last three hours trying to deal with it. I’ll get to it probably this afternoon after I’ve had a chance to… not deal with this goddamned BS that has supposedly been fixed for two weeks, yet is only worsening.
Impressions:
The theory here is fine. The ronin/knight-errant rolls into town. It has a monster problem. Oops, actually the monster problem is something else and the person of the week grows or whatever. The execution however, was awful. The production remains dirt cheap for starters. Everything being barely animated, including the demon slaying, makes it visually boring as sludge. The far more damning part is that the character/story of the week is also terrible. A demon is repeatedly trying to kill some rich girl while yelling that it wants its daughter back. What’s eventually revealed is that she’s mad that daddy doesn’t pay enough attention to her, and her resentment summoned a completely random demon that also has father/daughter issues. A completely random demon that also fathered whose-her-face the main antagonist demon girl. Aha, there’s your link to the main plot… I guess.
There’s no connection here. There’s no thread in the narrative that leads to this. Dude just up and randomly declares that it’s her negative feelings that caused this. If teenage girls being traumatized or feeling resentment in feudal Japan causes demons to run amok, your entire countryside would be awash in them. Also, it’s then resolved by everybody telling her to stop being so whiny? And everybody happily goes back to their lives? That’s how this is resolved? The emotional side was superficial as hell. It was all over nothing at all, but treated like some grievous psychological scar. Again, if “daddy doesn’t pay enough attention to me” is your greatest worry in that age, on top of the roaming monsters, which you yourself accidentally summoned, some perspective, please.
