Okay, so this was the ultimately pointless side story that receives none of the best animators and is just there for the creators to have some fun and goof off, resulting in a completely crazy episode that makes no sense whatsoever but was heaps of fun to watch. Yeah.
But yeah, the creators sure know how to keep this series varied with such a weird episode, even for this series’ standards. You could definitely see that near the end, the creators ran out of budget, but I suspect that the budget for this episode wasn’t that big to begin with. Hiroyuki Imaishi actually wrote the storyboard of this episode himself, which I think was to try and distract from this as much as possible.
First of all he definitely succeeded, because I had a lot of fun to watch this episode. And second of all, I really like this practice of using your best talents in order to make up for the flaws in your production team. Studio Trigger is new, so they still lack the staff to make a full fledged 2-cour series perfectly, but with this mentality they actually manage to keep things interesting, rather than using this episode as a way to stall time by just wasting their worst resources on this episode due to its lack of significance.
Oh and yeah, this episode brought on the guns. I suddenly got loads of flashbacks from Dead Leaves for some reason.
Rating: 5/8 (Great)
This episode was hilarious! I don’t know how they managed it but the fact that it was poorly animated actually seemed to enhance the comedy. Brilliant!
imaishi is great at handling a limited budget and infusing a ton of energy into his projects. his storyboards are awesome study material. should also mention he is quite the master with the art of limited animation (even though he didnt do any key animation on this ep)
loved it, and the sound track
the end bit where she just drags the chair and answers roll call is class
@psgels which anime this season has your fave soundtrack
Another great episode of Mako la Mako
@kero I know you weren’t asking me but I just want to say that IMO Galilei Donna has the best OST so far.
any response is good. What do you like about the Galilei sound track?
Very funny episode. The nosebleeding parts were the best.