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(Two episodes watched): I quickly got the feeling that this show was reminding me of 7th Time Loop, and that feeling only got stronger and stronger as episode one progressed. I can't help thinking that whoever wrote this show first read Time Loop and decided to do a take-off of it. One definite difference between them is that this one attempts to employ a good deal of comedy--attempts, but doesn't really succeed. The jokes struck me as simplistic and unremarkable, with plentiful superdeformed images but not superdeformed in a really original way. I didn't know what to make of the silly white Dragon God. And while Time Loop initially excited me, I steadily lost interest in it and quit around halfway through. The premise was interesting, but nothing really intriguing happened afterwards. I was hoping for complex power struggles between different factions, but the story didn't attempt anything that deep. This show might be described as First Time Loop, since nothing like this has ever happened to Jill before. I thought the scene aboard Rave's ship where Jill tries to talk her way out of her unwise proposal was confusing and Rave's emotions flip-flopped oddly. He seems to be a fairly nice guy now compared to the sadist he will become in six years if nothing changes (though he seems to have lolicon tendencies, which offended several reviewers at ANN). In the end Jill agrees to go through with the marriage, apparently because her honor demands that she always keep her word (she could have told Rave the truth, that she has just been resurrected; he might think she is crazy, but that might cause him to agree to cancel the marriage). Eh, I could not get too excited about this show. It would need to be better than Time Loop for me to watch, and how often are copies better than the original? But I guessed I would watch another episode just to get an idea of where things were going. Maybe whoever wrote this had been just as disappointed with Time Loop as I was and was trying to fix it. And then in episode two there came a scene which quickly made things clear. Rave's ship comes under attack, and Jill helps defend it by stopping a cannonball in midair with her fist. WTF? I don't recall any mention of her having superhuman powers in episode one. Then she lifts the entire ship out of the water and carries it to a safe port. This is insane. If she can do things like this, why didn't she just squish Prince Gerald when he screwed her over? What need does she have to train if she is basically a Goddess? Maybe it was meant as a joke, but it made no sense in any way and therefore could not be funny. Then a conspiracy against Rave pops up out of nowhere and Jill decides to investigate independently. This was looking more and more like the sort of story that schoolchildren would come up with. Another example of a show which I should have been brought in to rewrite, because it would be hard to do worse than this. Maybe episode one seemed OK because it was largely a copy of Time Loop, but now that it had to stand on its own legs it was all falling apart. Neither funny nor believable as a drama, I decided to write Yarinaoshi off. Last updated Sunday, October 27 2024. Created Tuesday, October 22 2024. | ||||||||
