This week was certainly an episode of Ousama Ranking. It was not an episode I’ll remember for long.
“King of the Underworld” was a bit of a chore to watch. With several flashbacks and a fighting sequence that we had basically seen before, there wasn’t the series’ usual heart in this one.
Here are a few observations:
– The underworld king himself is….fine. Nothing great, nothing terrible – the beef with his brother will probably become more interesting as a reflection of Daida and Bojji.
– The fight with the captain of the guard just showed Bojji has great dodge. This would have been very interesting, but we already knew that from the Daida fight.
– I don’t care that Bojji can’t pick up a rock.
– Spear guy is interesting in that he’s on Mirror-chan’s side now.
– Daida’s resistance last episode is completely undone and he has to drink dead daddy juice. Feels a little bad, because this was the expected outcome.
I won’t make any sweeping judgements of Ousama Ranking based on this episode – it served as a scene change and nothing more. I guess it didn’t make any major missteps, but there certainly wasn’t anything to enhance the show’s ranking (har har). On to the next episode, I guess.
