After rummaging something like 18 series over the summer, I thought I'd run out of candidates, but today I remembered Super Sonico, so I just downloaded the whole thing and I'm going through it looking for top rotation grabs.

Sonico's drummer, on the left, is even more top heavy than Sonico herself. Her name is Fuuri, and according to TVTropes, she's actually a tanuki who can shapeshift to pretty much any form. I wonder if Sonico knows it?

Do I actually care? Nope. There's probably some excuse for a story, but that's not what the show is really about. (And it ain't what I'm interested in.)

The 12th episode was pretty useless because it's mostly outdoors in winter, so everyone is bundled up. 11 will be better, and there are at least two beach episodes, not to mention the bikini-zombie episode I watched before. This show is blatant fan service in any case, so I'm sure it won't let me down.

UPDATE: Episode 8 bluescreened my computer.

UPDATE: This happens occasionally. Not often enough to be annoying; maybe twice or three times a year. It's gotta be the display driver. In theory the answer is "Update the display driver" but it's nVidia, and their quality control is legendarily poor. The last time Microsoft told me there was a new one, I downloaded it and it made things a lot worse, so I retreated to the previous version.

I won't update the driver unless the status quo is intolerably bad, and it isn't. I can live with things the way they are now.

Anyway, small loss. Episode 8 was terrible.

UPDATE:

UPDATE:

It's in the rules: if you have a big-breasted heroine and are doing a beach episode, there must be an assault by a giant squid or octopus.

UPDATE: Why does Sonico's manager wear a demon mask?

If it's a mask, that is...

UPDATE: Actually, the story isn't offensive, and there really is one having to do with Sonico's ambition to be in a successful rock band.

But what the show is really about is to present Sonico as a pretty ordinary girl-next-door, who is nice and not pretentious. She was really shy when she was in middle school (flashback episode) and has mostly grown out of it but she's still a bit shy. She blushes easily.

Looking like she does you'd expect her to get hit on constantly at college, but we don't get shown anything like that.

She sure isn't full of herself just because she's a successful model, nor because she has big breasts. She has friends and loves them, and they love her back. No sign of a boy friend. (Of course!) She keeps five cats. She works part time in her grandmother's restaurant. She's 18 and she's a first year college student studying oceanography.

I think the point of it all is to puncture preconceptions about her and make her feel approachable. And I think it works, too. Except she ought to melt any camera pointed at her.

She's just a girl-next-door -- except my girl next door didn't look like this. Not even close.

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