Kill la Kill 10.

This King of The Hill thing seemed so epic at first, but so far it's been so disappointing. I'm ten episodes in and Ryuuko has beaten three of the Four Devas already (almost got the Fourth in the same episode she beat the first one). It really is reminding me a lot of the utter disappointment of the Espada, although this show doesn't even have a Grimmjow...

Between this shows complete lack of a tangible threat providing villain (other than Satsuki) and having a protagonist whose power is BEING OVERPOWERED, I've found these last few episodes really difficult to enjoy. I dunno the early episodes just seemed to craft the story better, and use what it had to better effect.

It doesn't help that the quality of the animation is really dipping as well.

I actually like that. I've seen this show as straight up parody from the very beginning. Down to it's explanations of everything. The way bad guys just randomly appeared in multiple incarnations, the way new powers just sort of materialized. It's the purest form of parody of the toku genre. Which is why I'm loving it so damn much. Akibaranger was a tribute so it made sense, this is a tribute as well but at the same time a very hardcore parody of every type of toku. Akibaranger called things out that were crazy and made logic out of them, this show just lives and breathes tropes and plot gaps :lol

Holy crap Kill La Kill is good!

Even as a parody though, it isn't too much to want something that was actually well thought out. Samurai Flamenco's biggest flaw is that it built things up to have them amount to absolutely nothing.

You have to bear in mind Akibaranger was a show that was geared to Sentai nerds. On the other hand Samurai Flamenco at one point (not sure if it had it for the second half) had the "hottest" anime slot on Japanese television. When your show isn't primarily geared toward a certain audience you need to at least have things make coherent sense and not just rely on parody with no proper explanation. Do that and you get a show that's going to fail, and by the looks of it thats exactly what Samurai Flamenco is doing.

I've enjoyed it up until that point and am enjoying the episodes that followed, but I can see now the show pretty much dug its own grave in terms of success/ratings.

Kill la Kill 11.

How many forms has this Bandcamp Deva had? Is this really what they're pushed to just to give Ryuuko a challenge? BORING. Although not quite as lame as them reducing Sageyama to a total joke just to play up the introduction of a new character, what was the point of all the build up just to pull the rug?

This new character doesn't even make sense, didn't Ryuuko pull the red scissor out of her Dad? What did this new chick leave half of it behind? Why? How?

Dude, when it comes to Kill la Kill the best things to do when watching are:

1.) Don't expect anything conventional to be done with its story or pacing
2.) Don't question anything

The show flows at its own pace and explains things as it goes. It's extremely hard to predict what will happen next and throws lots of curveball explanations at you, so you kind of have to watch it without comparing it to anything or expecting it to follow a formula.

I guess I'm just sorta deflating a bit. The first seven or so episodes - minus episode four - were epic, gorgeously animated seeming love letters to my favourite shows. I was LOVING it, it was smart, maybe intentionally satirical and also gloriously silly.

But I've just found this King of The Hill arc really dull and with the asspull at the end of episode eleven it seemed to only cement my utter disappointment with this mini arc.

I'm hoping with Satsuki's mother getting involved this means the show is gonna shift back into the high gear of awesome set by the stuff that came before this rubbish King of The Hill nonsense. HERE'S HOPING.

So I've been following Chuunibyou Ren and this week's episode was the first that's actually caught my attention the full way through. That was a pretty heavy episode for such an inherently silly show.

Well, got caught up to Flamenco 19 & 20. Man poor Gotto. Never would have suspected that about him at all. Very strange indeed. As for this new arc that's begun, what the hell is wrong with Hazama? Is he really imagining this kid?

The universe told him that aliens and monsters and all the great villains he ever dreamed of fighting would never appear again. But the universe never said anything about regular human evil. And is Flamenco really the source of it? How did this kid attack the Flamengers and everyone else all at once if he isn't real? Crazy stuff yet again.

So now I'm going to pick up Space Dandy and give it go. Was interested for a while and it's on Hulu anyway so why not?