One Punch Man 2 epsiode 8
Please someone tell me I'm not alone and the only one who likes this second season.
It's a shame that Madhouse aren't doing it anymore, but I still enjoy it.
Blue Seed ep5-6
These two episodes were a slight improvement, but I think I'll just shelve this one for now. Both presented an opportunity for interesting character-based conflict (the lady scientist's strained relationship with her son and the tech-guy's apparent resentment about getting transferred onto the goon squad), but both were quickly resolved in the most banal way possible. I kind of feel like that's the show in a nutshell.
It's the character writing that bugs me most; maybe something is lost in translation, but they're so stilted. There's no rhyme or reason to anything they do beyond 'plot dictates characters must bond, fight monster, insert awful risque joke'. It also doesn't help that the TAC, explicitly described as 'most capable of fighting the monsters' come across more like a group of secondary teachers on the geology field trip than an elite government investigation squad.
Bah. I want to like this. It's a nice looking show and there is a good basic idea here, but it repeatedly fails to make anything of it that isn't formulaic and frequently underwritten.