I'm sad to say, ep 2 was a big disappointment. I just don't handle "embarassment" stories very well, and Mayu really screwed up this time. About five minutes in I started skipping.

Shamo left at the very beginning, and only showed up again at the very end. She seems to be the hook for the next episode, so I'll give it a try, but I'm no longer holding out much hope.

Sigh, is there going to be anything this season I can stand to watch?

UPDATE: A farce story has to have a rock in the middle, a stable character around which all the chaos swirls. The Yuzu character can't be it for this story; she isn't central enough. It has to be Mayu, and in the first episode it was. That's why the first episode worked.

Mayu was a self-absorbed hell raiser when she was younger, and that's what led to her being banished. But for this story to really work, she has to have grown up in the mean time, beginning to get to the place she'll really need to be to gain forgiveness from her mother. And that's what she seemed to be in the first episode.

Not in this one, though. And that's why I started skipping.

Well, it's one of the reasons. Another reason is that the joke pacing and timing was awful. There was one joke that went on way too long, for example. They repeated it over, and over, and the problem is that it was already boring before they hung a lampshade on it.

Another thing is that Mayu's "find lost things" ability was the obvious answer, but I thought of that several minutes before Mayu did. And it's her power!

Just lousy scripting all around.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in General Anime at 03:38 PM | Comments (2) | Add Comment
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