Oh no. A slow moving donut has been fired at me.
Season preview will be up this time next week. I hope you’re ready for toxic romances and reincarnation cheat powers. Oh wait, that’s every damn season now.
Impressions:
Better than the last few, but maybe that’s just the very last scene with Hisui that is what I’ve been looking for from D or characters in general for a long time, and the scene itself was done well. A very, very fast flashback montage, like literally no more than five seconds just to remind you, a statement of her position and beliefs, and then a declaration of action. The same basic template for any motivational speech, or high school essay, and yet, something that so many shows, including this one, repeatedly fail at, especially through lack of brevity. Even if this one was kind of trying to glamorize tokenism. Compare that to Angel, now a literal angel, who just yells that because her mom was a shambling yeti she never knew, and her dad is a genocidal megalomaniac, she’s on Team Genocide. It’s just right. They might have the vaguest point if any monster so far could go two seconds without trying to murder literally everybody in a five mile radius. We don’t even get to see the shambling hulk be unjustly killed or whatever.
The other two enemies of the week were also pretty underbaked. That one shrimpy character jumps out of nowhere to continue her tantrum. It’s always insincere in these stories stories of everybody getting messily killed that someone is completely inured to the other hundred of their friends dying, except for the one that causes an instant total mental breakdown. It would’ve worked a lot better for her to go all monstery had she been losing and getting desperate while Angel and D were squabbling. The barely animated short strokes were also not selling crazed vengeance. And the rangers jobbing to the big boss under his power of plot armor, quite literally, is likewise ever a terrible way to try to pitch the threat factor. Menace is not posing and then smash cut to having won off screen. Behind an explosion. No, you can’t see it. That would require budget. And effort.
