Very blobby.
Impressions:
The manga isn’t technically a four panel deal, but you wouldn’t know it from this episode. Every single scene change has a title card slapped somewhere indicating that the gag is over and a new one is beginning. Sometimes it jumps right in and is on to the next within 20 seconds. Sometimes it bizarrely decides that it needs to completely restate some or all of the premise. It gets especially bad in the second half of the episode with all the premise introduction finished, but does keep it moving, even if it’s jarring and disjointed as absolute hell.
It’s at least better than always yelling an overreaction to indicate that a joke has finished, and if all you want is girls making a wide array of blobby, silly faces, there’s certainly worse out there, but I think the only joke that actually cracked a smile was the one of the excessive escalation of people eavesdropping. A lot of reliance on the mistaken appearance of fanservice for gags, yet also not very fanservicey, which I don’t actually know is a positive. T&A can be a nice spice when there’s so little else going on, and you’ve got your toe in that pool anyway. There’s still plenty of overreactions, but there is a variety in its jokes, and the baseline visuals are decent enough. It’s… fine, I guess, as a first episode. It didn’t do much to make me want to watch more, but I also don’t want to make a voodoo doll and swear a blood oath against its creators like I do half the shows this season.
Next Episode:
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