April 21, 2012

Upotte -- ep 3, and done

I've reached my limit, and won't be following this one any longer.

Episode begins with an extended bathing scene, including lots more innuendo. Then we get a long exposition on submachine guns (grade school students) and then one on why the British guns suck. And we close with yet another extended bathing scene, loaded with "Buy the BD" censorship.

It's just entirely too strange. I'm through.

UPDATE: For whatever it's worth, my schedule now is:

Friday: Shining Hearts
Saturday: Mouretsu Pirates
Sunday: Saki
Monday: Nyaruko-chan

Shining Hearts actually runs on Thursdays but the sub doesn't show up until Friday. The other three shows are on Crunchyroll.

I am pretty sure I'm going to be following Shining Hearts all the way. Mouretsu Pirates is a lock. The other two shows I may still give up on, or not, depending on how they develop. Saki is the one I'm most likely to drop at this point.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in General Anime at 12:21 PM | Comments (2) | Add Comment
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1 FWIW, I laughed harder during this episode than I did in the previous two combined.  Some funny, funny stuff in there if you know anything about guns (the history of the L85 was spot-on, by the way)... like the M16 girl "cleaning herself more thoroughly" than everybody else.  Or the SMG teacher, Thompson, having big (ahem) magazines.

It's not a good show by any stretch of the imagination, but the production staff knows that, I think.

Posted by: Wonderduck at April 22, 2012 08:23 PM (PVVuW)

2 I knew that the M16 had a reputation for needing to be kept particularly clean if you wanted it to be reliable, and I figured that the business of Ichiroku being particularly careful cleansing herself was a reference to that. But it doesn't ameliorate the squicks.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at April 22, 2012 09:30 PM (+rSRq)

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