Kaname Madoka and her rare breed of Chocobo
Where to begin… There’s this place where dog-like people are waging war against cat-like people and the dog people are at a disadvantage. The dog princess with the pink hair is gonna summon their trump card, their hero to turn the tide of the war. Try to guess where this hero is from? Yep, in good ol’ Japan, Earth. Enter Shinku, the protagonist. He’s your, as usual, regular high school student with some acrobatic skills. He disregard safety by jumping off windows, etc. He was sucked in by a huge flashing pink magic seal after leaving school and strangely enough, no one noticed a towering beam of light popped up in front of a school in middle of town and in day time, and he ended up in Frownland-something — the world of cats, dogs, chocobos, floating rocks, magic, and known for kidnapping people.
First Impression:
The episode is vaguely a kiddy version of Utawarerumo; it’s generally light-hearted and colorful but I’m not fond of it for some reason. It feels like this show is aimed to the younger audience, the tongue-twister names of the characters are hard to remember and their humor is half-assed resorting to cute facial expressions, wagging their tails, etc. Production value of the episode is average at best with standard animation and unimpressive fight scenes. The music is pretty much forgettable, the opening theme was nice because of NANA MIZUKI but not as good as the rest of her songs. In my opinion, SCARLET KNIGHT is one of her weakest songs. The ending theme is simply… plain cute.
On the plus side, Dog Days is being produced by the same folks that did Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha so, we can pretty much expect some flashy fight scenes in the future. The voice cast is surprisingly strong with Norio Wakamoto, Nana Mizuki, Yui Horie, etc.
I give this episode a 7/10 score. I will watch a few episodes to see if Dog Days is really the show for me. Expect a review from me if I do follow this.
