9th April 2011, 10:40 PM
(This post was last modified: 10th April 2011, 2:57 AM by A Black Falcon.)
Have you seen Eva 2.anything yet?
A Channel 01 - Zzzz... yeah, that was about the most boring and generic thing around. Sure, it's got a little more (lesbian) romance than many of the shows it's ripping off, but on the other hand it isn't very funny and is often quite dull, so that doesn't exactly make up for it. Also, assaulting people just because they're too close to the girl you like isn't right, and this episode repeatedly plays the younger girl chasing people away with a baseball bat (happens twice in the episode) and ... doing things off camera ... with one of the object of her affection's friends' breasts (I think) off for laughs (happens three times in the episode)... not that funny. It's blandly watchable I guess, but it's very far from being good. Oh yeah, and the main girl is a complete idiot. I didn't have any hopes for this, and yeah, it's poor. I won't be watching much more of this.
Gosick 12 - No mystery this time. Instead it's the start of summer break, and the hero and Victorique are staying on campus for the summer while all the other students go off to their summer homes (reminding us that this is a school for the rich). So, instead of a mystery, we get some parts of the main character's backstory, showing some of his childhood (he was weak and his father often got angry at him for it, while his mother defended how he acted. He's also the youngest of four children, he has two older brothers and an older sister.) and lots of Victorique being cute. The latter point is clearly the main purpose of this episode -- Victorique being cute by getting stuck in a tree and refusing help until it's raining and he comes back for her (she jumps on him feet first, why not just do that sooner, you'd have been fine...), Victorique refusing to see him unless he has candy with him, so he almost goes on vacation with Avril and without her (until he thinks of her at the train station and decides to stay), etc... yeah, lots of Victorique being cute/probably somewhat tsundere. She does solve a riddle one of his older brothers sent in one of the packages the main character got from home (it takes her one second, I certainly would never get it that fast). At least at the end of the episode she admits that he's better at climbing trees than him and sort of says some words of encouragement.
Hen Zemi TV 01 - So that's how they made a TV version of this, by removing a lot of the more sexual content. It feels like a reboot (starting over for people who hadn't seen the OVAs) and was still amusing, but it's not as good as the OVAs are. The subjects were tamer -- upskirt shots, farting, and mild NTR (guy liking seeing his girlfriend and another guy hit on eachother); OVA 01 in contrast had a panty thief, full NTR (the guy getting off on 'secretly' watching his girlfriend and another guy have sex, while a third guy filmed them), etc. Also each of the OVAs had at least a scene or two in a bar, with the main character girl drinking; that doesn't happen here either. Instead they added gross-out stuff the OVAs didn't have, like the farting and flies stuff. I've never liked that kind of stuff in comedies, and that's part of why I like this less... it was alright though, parts were amusing and it's certainly still quite weird.
A Channel 01 - Zzzz... yeah, that was about the most boring and generic thing around. Sure, it's got a little more (lesbian) romance than many of the shows it's ripping off, but on the other hand it isn't very funny and is often quite dull, so that doesn't exactly make up for it. Also, assaulting people just because they're too close to the girl you like isn't right, and this episode repeatedly plays the younger girl chasing people away with a baseball bat (happens twice in the episode) and ... doing things off camera ... with one of the object of her affection's friends' breasts (I think) off for laughs (happens three times in the episode)... not that funny. It's blandly watchable I guess, but it's very far from being good. Oh yeah, and the main girl is a complete idiot. I didn't have any hopes for this, and yeah, it's poor. I won't be watching much more of this.
Gosick 12 - No mystery this time. Instead it's the start of summer break, and the hero and Victorique are staying on campus for the summer while all the other students go off to their summer homes (reminding us that this is a school for the rich). So, instead of a mystery, we get some parts of the main character's backstory, showing some of his childhood (he was weak and his father often got angry at him for it, while his mother defended how he acted. He's also the youngest of four children, he has two older brothers and an older sister.) and lots of Victorique being cute. The latter point is clearly the main purpose of this episode -- Victorique being cute by getting stuck in a tree and refusing help until it's raining and he comes back for her (she jumps on him feet first, why not just do that sooner, you'd have been fine...), Victorique refusing to see him unless he has candy with him, so he almost goes on vacation with Avril and without her (until he thinks of her at the train station and decides to stay), etc... yeah, lots of Victorique being cute/probably somewhat tsundere. She does solve a riddle one of his older brothers sent in one of the packages the main character got from home (it takes her one second, I certainly would never get it that fast). At least at the end of the episode she admits that he's better at climbing trees than him and sort of says some words of encouragement.
Hen Zemi TV 01 - So that's how they made a TV version of this, by removing a lot of the more sexual content. It feels like a reboot (starting over for people who hadn't seen the OVAs) and was still amusing, but it's not as good as the OVAs are. The subjects were tamer -- upskirt shots, farting, and mild NTR (guy liking seeing his girlfriend and another guy hit on eachother); OVA 01 in contrast had a panty thief, full NTR (the guy getting off on 'secretly' watching his girlfriend and another guy have sex, while a third guy filmed them), etc. Also each of the OVAs had at least a scene or two in a bar, with the main character girl drinking; that doesn't happen here either. Instead they added gross-out stuff the OVAs didn't have, like the farting and flies stuff. I've never liked that kind of stuff in comedies, and that's part of why I like this less... it was alright though, parts were amusing and it's certainly still quite weird.
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