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So my attention was drawn yesterday by Nisekoi, a pretty standard harem comedy from the description. The story bears a very vague resemblance to Romeo and Juliet: our hero is the son of the head of a Yakuza gang. He ends up romantically entangled with the daughter of a rival gang.

But that's where the resemblance ends. There are at least two other girls who are also, apparently, after him.

When I'm considering plundering a show which I'm sure I won't like, I check a few episodes out in the middle, with sound turned off and no subtitiles. And that's what I did with this one; I downloaded a couple of raw BD rips, and took a look at episodes 6-8 and 17-19 IIRC. And what I mainly recall was a preposterous number of face faults, mostly by Our Hero.

The other thing was that the web site for the show implies that the girls are nicely shapely, but I sure didn't see any evidence of it in the show. They were always wearing loose baggy clothing or other things which deemphasized their figures.

Moreover, the episodes I was looking at were all haremette-of-the-week, which is a sign of incompetent scripting. With only four girls in a 24-episode show, if they're doing that it means they have no other story.

Now I may have been unlucky, and a beach episode (or other swimsuit episode, if there is one) would redeem a lot of sins, but I don't feel like looking any further. With a six-episode sample out of 24, I really should have seen more I could use.

So this one's off the list. Maybe I should try Yuru Yuri. If I can stomach it. It's been a long time since I glanced at that one and my memory is that it's probably useless, too, but maybe I'm remembering wrong.

UPDATE: Nope, nope, nope. I just took a look at Aroduc's archive for the show, both seasons, and it is as I recalled: no boobs. Yuru Yuri is crossed off, too.

It's interesting how some shows present middle school girls as totally undeveloped, and other shows stack them like a brick shithouse (you should pardon the expression). Makes you wonder, don't it?

UPDATE: One problem with using Aroduc's archives to shop is that he sometimes makes up names for the shows, so it isn't always easy to map them back to the real thing. But it looks like Twin Angels has potential. Episode 8 is a beach episode.

Yes, that's more like it!

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in General Anime at 03:59 PM | Comments (2) | Add Comment
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