天下制覇

Who is popping whose cherry here?

I’ve watched/written up Heroman, but there was an issue with the capper (it basically broke my laptop), so I’m having to resort to… dirtier… methods of automation, it’ll be up when that finishes (slower process, but I’m sure as hell not going to go back and manually deal with it.)

Impressions:

This actually ended up being a lot more fun than I expected and I attribute that to the leads have a very different dynamic than I expected. It’s almst more like a cleaner and funnier Futari Ecchi: The Teen Years than anything else. Both Yamada and Takashi are clearly attracted to each other and trying to get together, but it’s typically Yamada suddenly freaking out and screaming that gets in the way. In that sense, it really feels more like the two of them are already dating and this is more of just a very sexual comedy about that than your typical pantywaist male romantic lead who waffles the entire show. Some of the metaphors this show uses are also very ridiculous, but as I mentioned elsewhere, I’ve been dealing with a rather lot of Japanese sex nonsense lately, so I may be tainted by that.

Production and direction were definitely the weakest parts of this episode. The four panel comic format clearly shows through with constant quick jumps between scenes. It keeps moving right along from one joke to the next, so it does that well, but it doesn’t blend them all together nearly as seamlessly as GA or Azumanga managed. I do realize that’s a damn high standard to hold anything to, but this show could stand to work on it. The animation and artwork was also far from stellar. Aside from the occasional throbbing pants bulge, it wasn’t painful, but nobody in their right mind would be impressed by it.

A favorable beginning so far then. I’m definitely going to be watching at least the next episode or two. I do think that your enjoyment will be heavily mitigated by how funny you find sex in general, but otherwise, so far this is a pretty enjoyable little romantic comedy.

I have to head out for class in a few minutes. I’ll be able to get Heroman taken care (just needs caps sorted which I can stealthily do in class), but the rest of today’s stuff will have to wait a few hours at least.

Preview:

Wow. We’re hitting all the cliches already.