6th April 2011, 2:38 AM
Sengoku Otome 01 is pretty bad. It's apparently based off of a pachinko franchise, like Rio Rainbow Gate, so expectations should be very low, and that's what it is. It was so bad, I just couldn't force myself to watch the whole episode. It's basically another "person from the modern world gets pulled into the past/an alternate world of fantasy", with gender-swapped versions of the characters. You know, like other things in the genre, except awful. The main character's a not too smart girl who acts (in ep. 1) like one of the stupider characters in a group-of-girls comedy series. She's somewhat annoying at times. She gets pulled into the Sengoku era through a portal in a shrine she was visiting, except in this Sengoku era all the leaders are gender-swapped, like Koihime Musou (except not as good as even the worst season of that show, and with a person from modern times, which there wasn't in the Koihime Musou anime.), etc.
On that note, Oda Nobunaga? But Nobunaga is usually evil in anime, Japanese videogames, etc... it's funny, the winner (of the wars of the Sengoku) is considered a villain, but he is. I wonder if this one will end up that way too, opposite gender or not. Wouldn't surprise me. But overall, based on the part of the episode I watched, annoying main character, not too good plot, etc, etc... it was pretty bad. But considering what it's based on that shouldn't be surprising. Not sure if I'll go back and try to finish the episode.
Oh, the English title apparently is "Battle Girls: Time Paradox" but changing "Sengoku" to "Battle", while maybe linguistically accurate, loses the specific reference that it's referring to, the decades of warfare in the 16th century called Sengoku, or "the era of the country at war" I believe. The reference should be left in, I think.
Dog Days 01 - Basically the same thing as the above (earth person taken into a fantasy world), but with a guy main character, which means I imagine he'll have a harem soon enough. All of the people in this fantasy world are animal-people, so the main goodguys are dog people, the villains (in this episode) lion/cat people. That's just wrong, cats are good and dogs are evil... :)
The show is generically bad as expected... that is, until we see the nature of the "combat" in this world. That was amusing, I admit. They don't kill anyone, they fight without actually hurting people and turn into a chibi animal form when "hurt". There's an announcer too, and points depending on how far the attackers can get into the defender's territory... but apparently this game does have real consequences, for you lose your castle if you lose. Um, maybe. Maybe not, and it's just the psychological damage of losing a lot that they're worried about. I'm not entirely sure really.
Anyway, it's definitely bad, but at least it's a little bit amusing.
On that note, Oda Nobunaga? But Nobunaga is usually evil in anime, Japanese videogames, etc... it's funny, the winner (of the wars of the Sengoku) is considered a villain, but he is. I wonder if this one will end up that way too, opposite gender or not. Wouldn't surprise me. But overall, based on the part of the episode I watched, annoying main character, not too good plot, etc, etc... it was pretty bad. But considering what it's based on that shouldn't be surprising. Not sure if I'll go back and try to finish the episode.
Oh, the English title apparently is "Battle Girls: Time Paradox" but changing "Sengoku" to "Battle", while maybe linguistically accurate, loses the specific reference that it's referring to, the decades of warfare in the 16th century called Sengoku, or "the era of the country at war" I believe. The reference should be left in, I think.
Dog Days 01 - Basically the same thing as the above (earth person taken into a fantasy world), but with a guy main character, which means I imagine he'll have a harem soon enough. All of the people in this fantasy world are animal-people, so the main goodguys are dog people, the villains (in this episode) lion/cat people. That's just wrong, cats are good and dogs are evil... :)
The show is generically bad as expected... that is, until we see the nature of the "combat" in this world. That was amusing, I admit. They don't kill anyone, they fight without actually hurting people and turn into a chibi animal form when "hurt". There's an announcer too, and points depending on how far the attackers can get into the defender's territory... but apparently this game does have real consequences, for you lose your castle if you lose. Um, maybe. Maybe not, and it's just the psychological damage of losing a lot that they're worried about. I'm not entirely sure really.
Anyway, it's definitely bad, but at least it's a little bit amusing.
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