World Destruction - Episode 3

The opening episode of World Destruction actually found my hopes for this series rising, only to be dashed last time around as it entered the world of generic action anime. While this third instalment was arguably a slight improvement by way of being a little more entertaining, it somehow managed to remain almost wholly bland and predictable.

The subject matter of the episode was simple enough - World Destruction Committee get captured (although we don't really know how), locked in a prison, and spend the episode planning (and then realising) their escape. In the meantime we have a beastman prison guard who hates seeing the brutality around him, while also falling in love with one of the inmates. Please, stop me if any of this doesn't sound like something you've seen in anime (or indeed on TV in general) a thousand times before.


So, we have ourselves a mix of love story and prison escape story, but to be honest the entire thing might well have been written out on-screen long before any of it happened, so predictable was this episode. To top it all, the animation quality already seems to have taken a big dive, at times all but crying out "We've sold masses of pre-orders of this game now, let's just finish the episode's animation on napkins down the pub later on". In fact, let's just hope that aforementioned Nintendo DS World Destruction game (which is what this anime is all about at the end of the day) doesn't fall into the same trap of failing to offer anything even vaguely interesting...