Thanks to the kindness of strangers I just downloaded ep 2 of Macademi Wasshoi and watched it. (Sometimes you have to rely on the kindness of strangers, and thank you to my benefactor!)

I'd seen descriptions of it and frame grabs. It turned out to be better than I expected. I'm really liking this; I hope the fansub group sticks with it, and starts turning out episodes at a more regular rate.

Especially since the frame-grab blogs I read all stopped covering it. I don't understand why this series doesn't get more love.

I really like Tanarotte's voice. It's a relatively new seiyuu, and this is the first thing I've heard her in. The character is wonderful, and she sounds like she's having a blast doing the role.

But I suspect that working on a series like this, which is so utterly silly, really is fun. And the prize role -- and best performance -- is Professor Sakuma AKA Professor Perv.

It was impressive to see him utterly toast a demon in a single shot. His power level really must be amazing; she looked terrified. Of course, his reason for doing it was a bit strange; maybe that was the reason for the terror.

I like the fact that Takuto isn't powerless. He tries to fight the demon and launches a quite respectable fireball at her. But she's out of his league.

We got some back story, which helps make some things clear: Gods and Demons are eternal, and the two realms are in balance in terms of power, and thus there is peace between them. Were something to happen to unbalance the situation, then the peace would be at risk, a prospect that both realms fear.

Tanarotte looks like a demon, but in fact she is not. Nor is she a god. However, with divine power of 5,000 (on whatever scale; we haven't been given any standard of comparison yet) she apparently has the potential to become either a god or a demon, and regardless of which, that would bring about exactly that unbalance.

The big question, which eventually someone is going to ask, is just how it was that Takuto was able to summon someone like her. And where did she come from? Did he create her, rather than summon her? And if so, what does that say about his power?

Certainly the authorities at the school are concerned about it all, and they're already looking into different possibilities. Professor Sagami AKA Professor Decap visited both the gods and demons to find out what they were willing to admit, and they both said they didn't know anything at all about Tanarotte.

It'll be interesting to see how this series develops. (If the fansub group doesn't take 5 years to finish it.)

Oh, did I mention that I really like Tanarotte's voice? It's awesome.

UPDATE: I'm wrong; Aroduc is still following the series.

UPDATE: Sorry; editing cockpit error fixed.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in General Anime at 09:23 PM | Comments (5) | Add Comment
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