So we’ve been armed with all this knowledge, but one still has to wonder what Musaigen no Phantom World intends to do with it. Outside of theatre or theatre-inspired traditions, characters that dive into soliloquy just look crazy. Whereas in the novel format it’s easy enough for the first person narrator to talk to the reader in his monologue, it’d probably be better for anime to erect a fourth wall as it does here, thin though it may be. By the way, this seems to be the actual purpose of the fairy mascot thing besides just playing the series’ Jar Jar Binks and occassionally discovering plot coupons. Perhaps Musaigen no Phantom World realised how much exposition it was piling on, because it had a self-aware gusto about going full lecture mode. There’s a reason why magical girl anime start skipping transformation sequences)-for what could have been just a goofy comedy, there’s a lot of information it wants to equip it with. Weren’t you Cerberus? Or an escapee from Eden of the East?), Paroles (way too long in general. The nature of phantoms (still not sure if things become retroactively real), summoning powers (I remember you. Overall, though, the episode was has calmed down somewhat from the pilot, mostly because Musaigen no Phantom World had a lot of explanation to get through. Nothing good can come out of reactivating those brain cells. I hope he can continue to resist, because unless he does Musaigen no Phantom World will have to start reconciling Loony Tunes shenanigans with high brow themes, which will just make both look bad against each other. When a protagonist philosophises as much as the one of Musaigen no Phantom World, you just know that the author behind him is just itching to show off his reading. And here’s what I fear: that there is a serious side to this anime. If Musaigen no Phantom World introduced too much sanity into the show, the refuge of audacity collapses. I don’t particularly mind the silliness (and it certainly didn’t do as much brain damage as the Limbo-breasts of episode 01), but only if they totally play it up. One is just silly fun-they don’t even try to explain why there’s some UFO after photos of damsels in dis-dress, just that it’s a good excuse for the girls to strip down (and we already have a shower scene earlier so whatever). Glass and face are things that should never mix).īut it should be evident by now that Musaigen no Phantom World is a show of two minds. It’s the hijinks segment! It’s cool I don’t get to use ‘ defenestration‘ enough in my vocabulary (just don’t try it at home, kids. The second half was about… exorcising a peeping UFO for some girls who live in a stereotype. And it was about putting down an old security robot at the brain-virus company, which 1) handily demonstrates the technology level of this setting and 2) probably ties to an overarching plot, because corporate conspiracies. The first was a mostly serious fight, relatively high on the action and effects. The second episode of Musaigen no Phantom World maintains the formula of the first, in that it is also an episode of two halves, one more serious than the other. For us as viewers, it’s where we check for consistency in quality and get a more rounded view of what the story is actually about. Episode 02 is usually the place where an anime can calm down a bit and get around to the groundwork that may have been passed over in episode 01 in favour of the hard sell. When taste testing anime based on the three episode-the notion that a show has one episode to hook and three to impress-the humble episode 02 is nested in an awkward zone between the big opening number of Episode 01 and the series defining development of Episode 03. It’s a curious thing to be introducing the second episode of an anime.
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