Otakuness Anime Reviews
Review-Roundup: Kuzu No Honkai 05-07, Idol Jihen 06-08
Hey, who doesn’t look to Idol Jihen for political commentary, right? There’s nothing weird about a living statue of a famous Japanese politician complaining about globalism to an idol who’s also a politician whose priority is to host a nice little party in the Nation Diet Building. Nothing grotesque about that!
This time I review:
Kuzu no Honkai 05-07: I guess, we can all relate to this series and we’ve all been in this place where it is difficult to find friends to talk to – but we still have a bunch of readily available fuckbuddies (through luck, one-sided attraction or just unspoiled coincidence). After all, what is love? Of course, it’s being attracted to that one person that Truly doesn’t like you (or doesn’t want to have hook-up with you… but what’s the difference indeed, right?!). Fortunate for you, this means now you can securely have hookup with everyone else without any guilt! And you can still believe in love because you ARE still in love. It’s just that, well, you gotta, at least, fuck sometimes, right?
But! What if the person who you’re in love with doesn’t love you back?!
Who cares?! Just fuck’em anyway (and it isn’t rape because it’s most likely just another person in love which means they can’t be together with the actual person they love but they gotta, at least, fuck someone sometimes…)!
Life’s a rollercoaster, man!
Idol Jihen 06-08: Politics is hard. Especially all those parts where you have to discuss politics with other politicians in some building. Of course, the entire thing doesn’t get lighter for these idols since they still claim to be idols. You might think: “How can some chicks from the entertainment-industry govern a country?” Well, you see, they don’t. They simply go to some guys in the countryside and those guys tell them what they should do. Or the idol has a trippy desire about some statues coming to life and telling her that globalization gargles caboose.
Oh, and I guess even Idol-Dietwomen can’t escape the scourge that is “fake-news”.
ACCA 13-Ku Kansatsu-Ka – 04-06 Review
Guess this character’s not a big fan of haircuts…
ACCA 13-Ku Kansatsu-Ka04-06: Jean’s in deep trouble. A lot of people are still persuaded that he’s instrumental to the coup d’etat movement. Mostly, very likely, because he seems to make a habit of getting into trouble. Not that’s it’s hard to get into trouble as an inspector considering how imbalanced and flawed those thirteen nations are. A nation that embraces isolation for the sake of abandoning innovation? Just how culturally paranoid do you have to be to do something like that?!
And the rest attempt to bribe Jean, so that he would expose useful information and not look too closely at what some part of the elites in these thirteen nations are planning. Guess it pays off after all to be at the heart of a conspiracy against your will…
Review-Roundup: Idol Jihen 04/05, Masamune-kun No Vengeance 02-05, Fuuka 04-06, Kuzu No Honkai 03/04
Who could’ve guessed…? Idol Jihen actually finds its footing in gig five as misogyny becomes the villain. I mean, it’s still an absolutely ridiculous series, of course, but, hey, you take what you can get with a series like this one.
This time I review:
Idol Jihen 04/05: A swimsuit-contest turns out to be about the idols’ connection to the ocean and their right to dress the way they want. And in scene five preschool-children protest the closing of their school while a sleazy politician learns that as many women are working professionals his views on women are entirely outdated.
Masamune-kun no Vengeance 02-05: A entire series about a fat boy who worked his donk off to become good-looking and exact vengeance on the female who dared to reject his love when they were children – except it turns out the two are meant for each other. It only took four scenes to tell that story. But the series is cheap enough to just make up shit to keep the story going. I guess, there are enough suckers out there who actually give a shit about the idiots in this series. Otherwise, you just got the signal from the series that watching any more of it will be a waste of time.
Fuuka 04-06: Music. We all have it. So how hard can it be to be a indeed talented genius? Not that hard evidently because two such persons are fighting over the main-dude’s heart. Yeah, this broomstick of a loser is evidently at the center of a LOT of romantic attention these days. Turns out his two best friends on Twitter are nice women who are ready to “get it on” (if you know what I mean 😉 ). And Fuuka also wants to fuck him. Anyway, the entire band-thing is also a gimme since it turns out that they just happen to know a famous band. Nothing unbelievable about that!
Kuzu no Honkai 03/04: Love hurts. But also, Love Is A Battlefield. And with all her might Hanabi attempts to escape a Total Eclipse Of The Heart. But it turns out there’s someone out there who’s very similar to her. It’s Akane, the woman who stole the man she’s in love with, a woman who’s a Maneater.
Yep, it turns out, it’s that kind of series.
Kimi No Na Wa. – Review
While this is a movie that attempts its best to base its supernatural elements on Shintoism, you most likely shouldn’t spend too much time about whether the mechanics of the supernatural make sense in this movie. Also, instead, how about you just love the view!
Kimi no Na wa. : Look, fate can be a real bitch sometimes, you know? There’s a person out there who you’re meant to be with! ‘Fine!’, you might say, ‘Spares me the hassle of dating!’. But here’s the catch: This person lives hundreds of miles away. And fate can’t just, like, write on your bedroom-wall “Hey, dumdum, your true love is over there!”. No, gotta make it complicated!
Come in Mitsuha and Taki. The former lives in the countryside and the latter lives in Tokyo. Periodically, they bodyswap. Well, I guess, everybody needs a hobby. Anyway, they’re meant for each other.
I mean, it’s better than the plot to Serendipity (the movie from two thousand one that turns the concept of ‘meet-cute’ into a entire movie for whatever reason), right?
Review-Roundup: ACCA 13-Ku Kansatsu-Ka 02/03, BanG Desire! 01, Idol Jihen 03
The fact that the thirteen provinces seem to have these surreal quirks only makes the series more interesting.
This time I review:
ACCA 13-Ku Kansatsu-Ka 02/03: Imagine a ton of elite in a room while “Everybody Wants to Rule The World” from Tears For Fears is playing and they’re all staring at the one boy who seemingly doesn’t want anything to do with ruling anything. Jean’s that boy and he’s in deep trouble…
BanG Fantasy! 01: So, what do you hear when you look at the starlets…? What, you hear nothing? Well, that’s a problem because this one lady can and because of that she… Well, see, here’s the thing: She finds these star-stickers one day and yeah, what I said about the starlets… it’s a entire thing. It’s basically everything for her and it turns out when she listens to the starlets they didn’t mention what she should do. No, it took those stickers (reminisce those?) to lead her to a guitar that’s shaped like a starlet – because it is, I mean, OF COURSE, it is! Running almost instantly to a local music-store with her guitar she happens to witness a band perform. It’s a truly transformative practice for this high-school-student! … who I guess has never heard music before or seen a live-concert.
Idol Jihen 03: An island has the ideal society by annually being drowned by cats and dedicating their entire infrastructure to the moodswings of cats. But one day the cats vanish. And since it’s the local politician’s fault (because, of course, it is!) idols have to come and fix things. Turns out the way to fix things involves a prophecy, an ancient ritual and the casual admission that Shintoism is VERY real. But as long as people are glad who cares how fantastical things get, right?
Review-Roundup: Idol Jihen 02, Chaos;Child 00-02, Kuzu no Honkai 02
Again, Kuzu no Honkai introduces another adult who talks about weirdly idealistic romance to kids and thereby damns them to have a entirely warped idea of what love actually is like.
This time I review:
Idol Jihen 02: Some shady politician in the countryside has determined to use his private land as an illegal dumping-ground for amusement-parks in Japan. The only problem: It stinks! Therefore, the courageous idols from the Sunshine party protest and… get nowhere with that. It’s only after Natsuki & Co arrives that a solution presents itself: Crack private property and repurpose it! And it’s okay because… idols! That’s why!
Chaos;Child 00-02: Imagine writing a newspaper for your school… What do you think is worth investigating? Is it the upcoming culture-festival at your school or is it maybe… a series of gruesome murders?! For Takuru the choice is effortless. After all, since he has the social aptitude of a dung beetle corpses are the ideal target-demographic of his journalistic ambitions.
Kuzu no Honkai 02: And you’d think pretending to be in love would be effortless…? Who could’ve guessed that love is waiting around the corner for practically everybody – and evidently it’s never the person you wish to see… or was it the person around the corner doesn’t wish to see you…? Well, who knows… Love’s indeed complicated, man!
Review-Roundup: Fuuka 03, Kuzu no Honkai 01
I get it! He’s gay! Is that supposed to become some sort of running gag that the good-looking dude is gay…?
This time I review:
Fuuka 03: Ah, youth… isn’t it nice? You need money and there’s just some part-time-job waiting for you around the corner!
Yuu, Fuuka and the gay fellow are traveling to the beach to earn some much-needed cash (which they couldn’t get from their parents because… uh, I guess, they’re not part of the target-demographic of this series).
There’s just one problem! Yuu deep throats at… Well, actually he just gargles as a person in general.
But Fuuka motivates him to rise above and for once act like a decent person. What a man!
And later he fails at rescuing Fuuka, so he gets rescued by her instead. (Go figure how that makes sense)
Hey, at least, there’s still a J-Pop-idol who wants to leap Yuu’s wiener, right?
Kuzu no Honkai 01: Love deep-throats. Especially if it’s unrequited love. Two people with that fate (almost) become “friends with benefits” while pretending to be a duo.