Macademi 01 was finally posted at Crunchy, and it's still a disappoinment (I watched a small piece raw back in the day). It's exactly the same as Otoshimono [1], only whacky and over the top. Worse, Tanarotte did absolutely nothing to endear. The dude seems kinda ok, as far as they go, but whatever.

IIRC SDB zoomed on someone called Falce, who have not appeared yet. But even if she's Feena fam Earthlight, Koyomi Mizuhara, Aoi Sakuraba, and Kayoko Uchida rolled seamlessly into one, I don't think she would be able to save the anime from Tanarotte, considering how sacred pact and superpowers embed her front and center.

P.S. Suzuho Hasegawa is spelled in an odd way: "羽瀨川 鈴穂". I wonder if it means anything.

UPDATE: Steven elaborates. Informative, has a screencap of Falce. Also, he seems not to notice that the subject of this post wasn't "Macademi fails" [2]. Indeed, the customary opening bracket is "Foo begins", which is usually posted a couple episodes in. I thought it my duty to record how bad Macademi 01 was, before the promised riches wash it out from my mind.

This brings up the question of the first episode in general. I think Steven himself wrote some time that the job of ep.1 is to make viewer to watch ep.2 and so on. On this score, Macademi is a collossal failure, the likes of which I am having trouble to recall. Manabi, a titan, has a comparatively weak first episode. It was a long time ago, before every other anime started throwing "special" openers like Haruhi 00 (for instance, Natsu no Arashi, Yoku Wakaru Gendai Mahou). I do not remember well just how bad it was and did not think to record it. Manabi only had a bracket post.

Overall, if we leave Manabi alone, shows that stay strong, open strong. This goes back to Vandread in 1997, but using categories as memory aid, it is almost an iron-clad rule. The statistics put Macademi at disadvantage, but then everyone says that it's "unusual".

[1] I suspect that the show may be setting up a false analogy in an attempt to lampoon the trope and may be not about any kind of plot or development here, but the point here is how the anime presents itself in its opening episode (e.g. poorly).

[2] He is also not big at reading footnotes, but that is quite all right. A text must remain coherent if all footnotes are removed.