Man, there have been some really bad fan service shows, know that? I've found another.

In the beginning there was a show called The Cosmopolitan Prayers aka "Cosprayers" (geddit?) It's a magic and sorcery story about high school girls who save the world from a titanic magical menace. Fortunately it wasn't very long, just 8 15-minute episodes. I haven't seen it.

I've got it set to download as soon as BakaBT's tracker comes back online, however.

But it spawned two related series. Distantly related. One was "Love Love?" It's about a guy, a 17 year old high school student at an art institute who also works for the Cosprayers TV show.

It's the first show I've seen in quite a while which begins with a "Don't sit too close to your TV when watching this" warning. And the two frames of it seem well designed to entice the audience closer to the screen.

The OP is loaded with fan service, including two FFN's:

Our hero manages to get a job doing behind-the-scenes video shooting for a "making of" special for the series, which means he gets to be around the girls all the time.

Left to right, Natsumi (17), Youko (17), Hikaru (14), Sayaka (14 and underdeveloped), and Miku (12). And as seems de rigueur in series like this, the two littlest ones are wise beyond their years and uninhibited in the extreme.

That really short woman standing next to our hero turns out to be the main character in the third series which is part of this lineage. She's a producer at the TV station, and in her show, Hit wo Nerai!, she gets her big change to make a show. Only problem is that it isn't the show she wants to make. (In fact, it's about her making Cosprayers.)

All of this ran in quick succession in the first half of 2004 (this one was actually the third to run), so I assume it all was part of a single broadcast slot. I wonder what else ran then to fill out the half hour?

Anyway, there's nothing subtle about the fan service in this show. There are five main girls, three of which are jailbait (by Japanese law; all five are by ours), and all but one of them does at least one panty flash in the first episode.

That's Natsumi, the romantic interest.

Youko doesn't do a panty flash, instead we get an accidental tit-grope. (But she's on top, so you know it's her fault.)

Hikaru is properly embarassed. She's the only one to get embarassed. God knows Miku isn't.

Miku, the 12 year old, jumps out of a tree and does a crotch-plant on our hero. And then apologizes for not wearing bloomers. (I dunno why all those guys back there are so excited; they can't see anything.)

Sayaka, the underdeveloped 14 year old, teases our hero about being in love with Natsumi, and then accidentally-on-purpose falls and flashes him.

I dunno. Fan service notwithstanding, I'm not sure I can bring myself to watch much further on this. Are cheap thrills really worth 3 and a quarter hours of my life? (It's 13 15-minute episodes)

Probably not, but it might be worth one hour to scan through it quickly looking for cheap thrills. (I have low tastes...)

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in General Anime at 07:50 PM | Comments (6) | Add Comment
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