天下制覇

I’m really not certain what I just watched.

If you’re wondering about the numbering, each episode is 12 minutes long and it airs in two episode chunks. 

Impressions:
Potemayo is downright weird. The basic premise is that a couple strange cat-witch things showed up in the androygenous guy’s fridge one day and started following him around. Potemayo (the cat-thing, not the show) is basically like a humanoid cat, doesn’t actually speak, and spends much of the start attacking the girl, Mikan, who has a crush on Moriyama. There’s also a somewhat more evil one with a scythe that shows up in the fridge that is Potemayo’s rival of sorts and resorts to excessive violence as her first and last response to everything and has a pair of lasers on her head.

The humor in it is actually occasionally really quality as it likes to set up one punchline and then opt for a different one. Unfortunately, a lot of the humor is more of the low key variety and a couple of the jokes that get dragged out are pretty terrible. Guchuko is pretty much an endless stream of entertainment, though still relies mostly on the cat jokes, at one point leaving an eviscerated pig on somebody’s desk as thanks.

Production values are decent, though not all that special. It’s the JC Staff Mahorba palette, so very cute, bright and colorful. Some of the voices are genuinely terrible though, namely the green haired girl, and many of the others just annoy me terribly. The BGM is also pretty obtrusive.

I’m not entirely certain where I stand on this one. I did laugh more than a few times, but I’m not certain that I’m ready for basically Digi Charat without vocals and the otaku joke angle. Still, Guchuko was a rather entertaining little demon, so… who knows.

Opening Video