Is the ice town next?
My sleep debt caught up with me somewhere between watching this and sorting caps with a surprise couple hour nap. I will say that both Necronomico and Turkey had better episodes this week, but not good enough to pick them back up. One was all about how everybody menstruates, including the dude (who’s not actually a dude), and how sometimes no quarter killing (with a bowling ball shaped rock, of course) is just something you need to live with, which is an odd mix of themes equating sengoku era killing with periods (the period piece joke writes itself), but certainly better than the last month of episodes. And Necronomico just did the Ender’s Game twist where the tower defense game they played was using an actual city. Oh ho! Now you’re evil too! What a twist! Except not actually a twist at all. Nor making any sense. Neither were enough to make me actually want to say anything about them besides that though.
Impressions:
An episode ripped straight out of Dragon Quest, or any SNES era Square RPG to be honest, but that’s also definitely better than the last month or so of episodes. There’s an actual framework for the story to progress, the characters to learn and react to things, milk the new situation for whatever gags, and move right along to the next. The basic building blocks of a story that anime in general always struggles with for some reason. Sure, we didn’t need five entire minutes to figure out something weird was up, but at least it was only five minutes and not an entire episode.
That said, the pacing did kind of fall apart from then on out. Obviously one or more were going to get turned, and made to fight the rest of them. Honestly, it would’ve been a lot more interesting had it been Toto since we could’ve had gotten a whole thing about them having to work together and then handwave it as him being weakened/strengthened (as plot or humor demands) when it comes time to go back to the status quo. I’m not even sure what the plan here was meant to be. Why exactly did they split into two groups where one’s job was to sit on their asses and do nothing? Also, the whole party = harem gag was such a low hanging fruit that it’s weird they didn’t take it. But maybe that’s hitting a little too close to home given… all fantasy these days.
Next Episode:
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