#see I think this is why I have such a problem with Nia from Gurren Lagann

[amplexadversary]

I'm re-watching episodes of G Gundam to look for character quotes and for a supporting character Marie-Louise is actually pretty delightful.

She lies, she simps, she goes out of her way to eavesdrop on people and get her hands dirty, she locks Rain in a bathroom, and she is extremely 14 years old while doing all of it. Dirt bag princess.

[horrible-monstrosity]

So I basically don't like anything I've seen come out of Studio Trigger. I'd say they're basically just a diet Gainax who likes to pretend they're just as cool by referencing Gurren Lagann over and over like they're the studio that actually made it or something... jokes on them, Gurren Lagann is way better way better than anything they've ever made. Yep, better than their first full anime series Kill la Kill, which was seriously just a ripoff of Gurren Lagann but with more tiddies, and also worse. GL was a well-constructed, thematically coherent, fairly tightly-written work; KLK was a firehose of shit and panties. They also really seem to love repeating themselves. Nui or whatever the fuck her name was in KLK was already suspiciously similar to Nia, except as a generic cute grill villain asshole, but then they went and made the twintails character in Kiznaiver (another shitshow) a fusion of both Nui and Mako. Plus, how many production companies put out a "celebration" short series after existing for only like five years and putting out all of two series, plus one series they like to pretend is theirs but isn't (actually no, two, they keep slobbering over Panty and Stocking's dick too) and a couple of OVAs that aren't even a full series yet? It's like their entire production output is just "hey... remember when we did this thing..... and it was kinda good........" So hey, look, we've got Life Fibers! We've got the four-pointed star thing from Kiznaiver... which also also looks like a motif used a lot in Kill la Kill... hmmm.

Anyway, let's watch Little Witch Academia.

The character designs are... um, hmm. The first two girls are okay, but the one who's apparently named "Sushi" looks just a little bit terrible. Her hair is chunky, her skin pallid like a zombie... oh, and she's kind of intolerable. But judging by how much screentime she got in Trigger's masturbatory five-years-of-nothing special, I'm guessing she's the show's most popular character, somehow. You know, because she's just "awesome" and that's why she can feed her friends poisons and why the minotaur that was all set on killing and eating everyone else just stopped and let her throw some shit into its mouth, because the writers were pressing the "awesum~~~" button. Good

... Hey, wait a fucking minute, are the "seven stars" gems on the Shiny Staff supposed to be the Pleiades? Come to think of it, Sushi is pretty much just a badly-drawn diet version of Nanako... Jesus christ, Trigger, get your own properties and fuck off.

pt2 the main trio are now acting like retards. wasting time on saying "nullification spell" repeatedly. No, don't name it and then conveniently have someone "ask" "the nullification spell??" for fucks sake, just say "we need to nullify it" and then say the spell name like you would anyway using the spell... for fucks sake... For some reason the premise of this second OVA is to have little schoolgirls torture themselves reenacting the fucking medevil witch hunts, because... why? What the fuck? Even if this made any sense, why would you have kids do this? It's like having Jewish children gas themselves once a year so the Holocaust doesn't happen again. The new fat girl is apparently retarded and also creepy, but I'll give robo girl and edge girl props for going along with main girl's dumb yet actually decent idea. Sushi continues to just be just a beligerent asshole... and Akkhole seems to have taken a few million levels in bratty. But the weird thing is, Akko isn't even like that 100% of the time. It's less like her character has been fucked up and more like the animators wanted to amp things up to 11 for those le wacky "comedy" points". Which is another thing Trigger seems to have a problem with, amping things up in place of any sort of actual writing quality. You know, with the whole actually using Akko as a guinea pig thing, Akko really does have more reason to dump Sushi as a friend than the other way around. ... Yeah, I'm really not seeing how this "parade" is supposed to keep the witch hunts from happening again. All it seems to be doing is galvanizing the public to detest witches and misunderstand them entirely. It's like the witch school is contributing to their own oppression. It's great, the logic here is just beautiful. Who wrote this shit? Aaaaand the final battle was literally just the same thing as before but waaaay more over the top awesume !!!!!. Like I said before, amping things up in place of actually writing something halfway decent.

Well, that was... not entirely terrible. I can't quite shake the feeling that, based on just these two entries, the whole franchise is just doomed to get progressively worse and worse despite having a decent start. But really how much could go wrong in 12 episodes- what's that? It's a full two cours for some fucking reason? Great.

Oh, and apparently Trigger got the rights to Panty and Stocking or something. May god have mercy on all our souls.