And we have another pleasant surprise!

In the classic (?) anime G-on Riders, every girl in the show (and there were hundreds) wore glasses, because meganekko were the key to super powers to save the world from invasion from outer space.

In this show, twintails are not universal, but they too are the key to super powers that can save the world. It's a really stupid conceit and the show knows it. "The Elemerians attacked her and stole her twintails attribute." has to be the best line in the entire show.

So the show is a farce, and that means you have to forgive the stupid. They know it's stupid; they're being stupid deliberately. The question is whether they can make us laugh, and pack enough fan service in to keep us happy. And at least as of the first episode, the answer is "yes".

The one with the white hair is the source of most of the craziness, as well as a good percentage of the fan service. Commie made her name "Thuearle" but to me it sounded like "To Aru".

Our Hero is Souji, a guy in high school who has an extreme fetish for twintails on girls. His childhood friend is Aika, who is sweet on him but won't admit it to herself; she lives at a doujo and is a top martial artist. He has studied there but isn't as good as she is. Souji's mom runs a diner, and Souji and Aika are there when it's closed, eating dinner, and Toaru shows up, acting weird.

She seems to be a practitioner of Clarke's Third Law. No idea where she got her advanced technology, but she begs Souji to put on a technomagical bracelet, and then teleports all three of them to the convention center, where an Elemarian attack is going on.

They're using super weapons to kidnap every girl around with twintails. Then they use a special machine to take away the Twintails Attributes, leaving their hair loose.

Souji is appalled, and Aika isn't any too happy, either. Toaru tells Souji that the bracelet can convert into a powered suit that will give him super powers.

And it does, too, but it also turns him into a girl with truly amazing twin tails. So we got a new super hero, and he/she/it needs a name. "Tail Red", folks; a name from legend, I think.

Anyway, Tail Red clobbers the bad guys. And then we get a scene in the alien ship where the Big Boss says that Tail Red is their ultimate goal, having a greater concentration of twintail power than any other. And then we get a fiendish laugh.

We have some serious silliness going on here, and I loved every minute of it!

UPDATE: The official web site gives her name as トゥアール tu a a ru so I don't know what Commie was smoking.

UPDATE: This director also did OreImo, which I didn't watch (Eeew!) but a lot of people liked. It was popular enough to get a sequel.

Siscon is too much for me. I don't usually like switch hitters, either, but I think I can tolerate this one because I think they aren't going to dwell on it.

UPDATE: Aroduc damns it with faint praise:

It didn't bore me quite as much as some of the other ‘comedies' this season so far...

Man, I earned the right to be a cranky old man by living 60 years. He's still in college; what's his excuse?

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in General Anime at 09:01 PM | Comments (10) | Add Comment
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