I feel overstimulated.
I did glance through the second episode of World is Dancing since Monday are looking grim, but it’s largely the same as the first, just with even more emphasis on the ending part of the first episode. He befriends the sick dancing woman, gets abused by his dad some more, woman dies and he embraces the spirit of her good dancing, not like his dad’s bad dancing, and ends up in a field of dancing naked people. It’s stylistically animated if nothing else, but nothing else is hooking me.
Impressions:
I don’t know that I have the attention span required for this show, or the aural fortitude, but given the rest of Monday, I think just being very animated and unhinged chaos wins it at least a few episodes of grace before my eardrums and eyes are overstimulated into submission. This has as much to do with dodgeball as Pizza Tower does with Italian food, and a similar approach to the humor, character designs, and volume. It all just starts and ends with throwing balls in bizarre situations, not with any kind of rules or sports aspect. As in using bee drone holograms to transform the ball into a nightmare monster, or octopus women with bulbous boobs catching fireballs with their stomachs for extra boob jiggle.
It’s at least consistently loud, visually and auditorially, rather than randomly screaming to indicate jokes. Everything is screamed. Everybody is excited about literally everything and gleefully obliterates their surrounding with reckless abandon. It’s exhausting. But it certainly does have energy to spare and unlike all these cheat power shows that claim to be over the top or exaggerated, legitimately is so, and I’d take a hundred of these over a single one more of those. It’s still just a pretty retro gag show though, and I don’t think it’s quite as witty or expressive as what I’d consider some of the real standouts like Milky Holmes(‘s first season) or Pani Poni Dash. I hesitate to say kid’s show with all the upskirt shots and fanservice, but I suppose given Jump’s audience still does fit that age range.
Next Episode:
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