Please stop sparkling at me.
There’s four or five shows today (not actually certain what the deal with Ranma and Netflix is, but I already know from the leak that the new version is a 1:1 re-adaptation of the manga and practically indistinguishable from the previous except for updated art/animation), but they’re all being very slow to pop up and I have to run some errands. I have zero hope for any of the rest regardless considering it’s a healer kicked from party, maid, Ranma, and that magical school bus thing, and I’m not even sure the last one will even be ripped by anybody since I don’t believe it’s even getting an official sub, plus it’s almost certainly a kid’s edutainment show.
Impressions:
This is another show that had a two episode premiere that I don’t feel very compelled on following further than this first episode. Especially not after glancing at the next episode and seeing that there will be another eight or so minutes spent pondering in a field. At least it was different from everything else this season, but different doesn’t mean good, especially not with the multiple gruesome torture/execution moments, which were thankfully toned down from the manga, but grotesque regardless. And also for some reason, the only place where the art and animation kicks in. So, great. Budget well spent.
It’s too slow paced and despite the random acts of violence, very, very little happens for the entire episode. The kid announces, internally and externally, that he’s the most clever boy of them all and loves science, and then a dude pops out of nowhere and tells him that the earth orbits the sun. Oooh, heresy. How did this take 20 minutes? Because both of them are super melodramatic and have to announce first that they’re about to do something dramatic, but first, setup for the announcement so we may ponder. Then the soulful Spanish ballad OP kicks in.
