October 17, 2014
The craziness doesn't let up and the energy doesn't, either. This is a plot exposition episode, but they manage to keep it from getting dull by sprinkling a lot of silliness in the middle of it all.
Toaru explains some things about what's going on but is rather reticent about other things, and Aika gets mad:
The caption for this was, "Answer seriously or your elbow's range of motion will double!" So her answer to "Why did Souji become a girl in the transformation?" was "I like girls!"
Souji's mother eavesdrops on the whole thing, and it turns out that both she and Souji's deceased father had aspirations to become superheroes, but never were able. Learning that her son has that ability, Mom is entirely in favor. She also grants Toaru permission to build a secret base under their house, which takes just one night. (Shades of Keroro Gunsou!)
Up in space, the alien boss orders his lieutenants to come up with ways to defeat Tail Red, and their answers are a sequence of fetishes:
They compete to see which lieutenant will be the next to challenge Tail Red.
Souji and Aika go to school the next day, and it seems that pictures of Tail Red are everywhere, and she's become the meme of the day.
The student body president calls an assembly, and announces her love for Tail Red.
Toaru has implemented an activation code for the bracelet: "Tail On!" The aliens are attacking a school in the next town, and Souji activates Tail Red:
Turtle Guildy attacks:
He lasts about five seconds; Tail Red kills him with a single blow. That's not the problem, though.
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Posted by: J Greely at October 17, 2014 01:34 PM (1CisS)
It looks like every time Tail Red shows up anywhere, it's going to seriously add to the legend. Not just eye witness accounts, but pictures and video, since it seems like everyone in the world has a phone with a camera.
If eventually it comes out that the cute girl's secret identity is a guy, the collective "Eeew!" will probably destroy Japan.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at October 17, 2014 02:02 PM (+rSRq)
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at October 17, 2014 05:40 PM (RqRa5)
Posted by: Wonderduck at October 19, 2014 08:26 PM (BCjxQ)
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at October 19, 2014 08:45 PM (+rSRq)
Posted by: Wonderduck at October 19, 2014 09:51 PM (BCjxQ)
It has a premise which could not possibly be taken seriously. And it doesn't. The bad guys are freaks. The good guys are freaks. The good guy's mom is a freak. The student council president is a freak. The only character who ISN'T a freak is basically the tsukkomi for the show. (And that's an important role. I remember when we talked about Gravion, how I advanced the idea that one of the key elements of parody is the wink to the audience, the element that lets you know that you're making a joke and not seriously expecting the audience to buy into twintails being the most important thing in the universe.)
It's a show that knows what it is and glories in it. Can they keep it good? We'll see, there's always the danger with this kind of thing that they don't have a lot of variety to offer and that they can end up in a rut. Let's hope they keep it fresh...
It should help that they're all freaks, but they're not the same freaks. Twirl's freakiness isn't Mom's freakiness isn't the bad guy's freakiness. Potential to explore that, but also a whole field of land mines to step on...
Posted by: Avatar_exADV at October 20, 2014 01:17 AM (ZeBdf)
You can call it "wacky" if you want, and good for you! Glad you like it, but I'll be damned if I can see how to do it m'self.
Posted by: Wonderduck at October 20, 2014 07:47 AM (BCjxQ)
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