October 04, 2015

Onsen Yousei Hakone-chan -- ep 1

This is a complete waste of time.

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Except maybe as a source of cheesecake. But since the episodes are only 3:30, it's hard to see how they can pack very much of that in it.

It isn't really worth describing the plot, to the extent that it has one, but a couple of pictures:

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That's Hakone-chan, the spirit of the hot springs, dealing with Our Hero, classic romcom nebbish. He's wearing glasses. (As I said one time, "If a girl in anime wears glasses, it means she's a volcano of passion waiting to go off. If a guy wears glasses, it means he's a dork." So this one is a dork.)

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He gave her a hot bun as an offering but she wants more, so he's taking her to get more when they run into the girl he has the hots for, "Haru-nee". He prayed at the shrine for help getting closer to her.

And then some stupid stuff happens.

The OP includes four other cute girls and one ghost, so you can make your own guess as to what it's about.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in General Anime at 07:10 PM | Comments (11) | Add Comment
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Why does this show exist? Usually these kinds of really short shows are thinly disguised advertisements (e.g. Bikini Warriors is pimping a line of figurines, Hackadoll is advertising a computer program) but if this is advertising anything I can't tell.

Is it an advertisement for the resort town of Hakone?

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at October 04, 2015 07:17 PM (+rSRq)

2 It's 2015; if they want to advertise Hakone, there's a slightly-better-known anime already set there that could draw plenty of otaku tourism...

Posted by: BigD at October 04, 2015 08:13 PM (VKO9N)

3 Which one is that?

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at October 04, 2015 08:55 PM (+rSRq)

4 Eva.  They call it Tokyo-3, but the location is Hakone.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 04, 2015 09:29 PM (PiXy!)

5 That isn't exactly a very good advertisement for the place.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at October 04, 2015 10:39 PM (+rSRq)

6 Hakone!  Come for the scenery, stay for the angst!  

Also, you'll lost likely die horribly.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 05, 2015 03:28 AM (PiXy!)

7 If this is based upon the manga I read some years ago, it's a shame it's turning out this way.  These 3:30 episodes... perhaps if I were a humming bird....

Posted by: Clayton Barnett at October 05, 2015 08:50 AM (lU4ZJ)

8 Not all the short stuff is like that though. I Don't Understand What My Husband Is Saying managed, in about 72 minutes over two seasons, more character development and charm than most full-length shows ever put on the table. And the premise it started from was just about as thin (with its male lead as a creep with glasses, at that...)

I have no reason to believe this show will stack up to that admittedly high standard, though. (High hopes for the creator's next project...)

Posted by: Avatar_exADV at October 05, 2015 09:16 AM (v29Tn)

9 Yeah, I noticed it too... If something is too good, the creators cannot reproduce it. Shingu is something that Tatsuo Sato has not exceeded yet, for example. Danna was just too good. Funnily enough, its original source was very mediocre. I looked it up, and it's terrible. The original One Punch Man webmanga was much better even. Nonetheless, something in it caught the eye of someone to spawn the anime. But Danna and PuPiPo are exceptions. Most 2-minutes just can't do it. Sure, AIURA was an animation tour de force. But there wasn't much else in it.

Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at October 05, 2015 10:15 AM (RqRa5)

10 I'm just in mourning. I just finished the last volume of Oh My Goddess. I think there might be a light novel or two out there I haven't read, but that's it.
Happy ending, of course. I wonder what Fujishima will do next? He's been doing this one for like a quarter century.

Posted by: Brett Bellmore at October 05, 2015 03:50 PM (L5yWw)

11 Sounds like I should watch Danna.  (Speaking of recommendation engines...)
 
PuPiPo! was remarkable.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 05, 2015 04:11 PM (PiXy!)

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