Spring 2011 Anime

[A Black Falcon]

Bakatest Matsuri OVA 02 - Yeah, that wasn't very good at all. Painfully generic and bad at the better parts, just boring at the worse ones, there wasn't much here about what's good about the series... the idea of morons winning a primarily knowledge-based tournament through cheating is not something that I am going to like. Blatant cheating like that should get you disqualified... "they're going to reveal it, we need to stop them"? As if you didn't in several rounds, when you used stupid, underhanded measures out in public during battle to get your opponents to quit? Ugh. And as for the good fighting ability they have in this episode, I don't remember them having that before... there's a one line attempt to justify why they have it now, but it was lame. This episode was so bad, the plot completely fell apart but because it fits enough of the stereotypes they decided it was good enough anyway, I guess. I knew they were going to win but were rooting against them in every round.

As for jokes, I think I might have laughed once or twice... no more than that, though. It wasn't very funny. At the beginning I was hopeful it'd improve after it got to the main plot (it starts with an incest segment about how his sister loves him but is a bad cook), but it just went downhill from there...

Oh, and as I suggested above, it was incredibly predictable. Everything that happens could be guessed a mile away, there are no surprises. I imagine some people are going to like this episode, but I didn't.