So does he eat all the other men he defeats too?
Impressions:
All the Tuesday shows are having a terrible second episode. I did glance through Arne too, and it’s an origin story to his fangirl sidekick… except it’s a multi-parter about how her insane dad attempting to Frankenstein his wife. He’s not subtle about it, with an entire room filled with stiched together corpses abutting the garden, and yet, this takes the entire episode to piece together because she has to meet vampire boy and then have vampires explained over her explanation of what she thinks they are. No wonder there wasn’t time for an actual mystery.
This episode just jettisoned about 90% of what was interesting about the first, starting off extra weak by NOT killing the annoying posers. Less violence. Less grit. More generic. More excessive explanation on a slightly different flavor of mermaid yokai that the monster of the week is using as zombies, but don’t call them zombies because they’re mermaids. Main character stops being a berserk lunatic and… won’t shut the hell up about the mermaids, mostly. Exciting stuff, guys. Let’s discuss nomenclature and our daddy issues more. Sure, killing is cool, but I’m actually into rebelling against my dad.
Plus the homages to the old series got… worse again, instead of pleasantly disconcerting like humming old theme songs for your massacres. At least, that’s what I assume the entire eyedropper and timestop schtick was all about. That he then forgot he could do as soon as the guy did his magical girl transformation sequence, which is very on-brand for a half-assed magical boy kid’s show from thirty years ago, but significantly less than I expected after the overtures of last week.
Next Episode:
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