#Shuumatsu Nani Shitemasuka? Isogashii Desuka? Sukutte Moratte Ii Desuka?

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[HorribleSubs] Shuumatsu Nani Shitemasuka Isogashii Desuka Sukutte Moratte Ii Desuka - 01 [720p].mkv_snapshot_03.25_[2018.08.29_20.33.52]

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so...... i made a sukasuka server. it’s still new so it’s empty, but we accept anyone who wants to join.

please join i’m lonely.

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Shuumatsu Nani Shitemasuka? Isogashii Desuka? Sukutte Moratte Ii Desuka? #06. 「消えない過去、消えていく未来」 (”No News was Good News”)

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The last episode of Suka Suka just dropped and never in my whole life have i felt so empty. I hope to god that they will have a second season

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CHTHOLLYYYYYYYY!!!!!  TuT

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spring anime 2017 part 3: comfy and easy to wear

So this is where all the shorts went. Guess I finally get to use that headline pun.

See also:

• spring anime 2017 part 1: woke up late

• spring anime 2017 part 2: girlfriendship is magic

• spring anime 2017 bonus round: things you already knew were good

100% Pascal-sensei

This is a half-length show about some kids whose teacher has been replaced with Persona 4′s Teddy. It’s funny because the penguin piloting a bear-robot-thing is not acting like a teacher at all, quite to the contrary in fact! To be honest, for a mascot comedy for preteen audiences it doesn’t seem too bad, but “I can’t believe this outrageous thing actually took place” is still not my kind of punchline. Only Nichijou can get away with that and this is no Nichijou.

Fukumenkei Noise

There’s a girl who can only express herself through PUNC RAWK singing and whose affection wavers between a hunky PUNC RAWK singer and the tiny guitarist from another PUNC RAWK band, who are both her childhood friends. It’s a shoujo as fuck romance with no particularly distinguishing features and the upcoming drama seems very predictable. Apparently it’s based on a bad manga but fans of said manga are also calling this adaptation bad, so I don’t know what to believe. It looks pretty janky on top of everything so I don’t think this is for me. The only thing it has going for it is that the girl actually does a pretty decent angry PUNC RAWK singing performance (I think?), but even if that was my jam I’d rather get the OST instead.

ID-0

I’ve been looking forward to ID-0 somewhat, since I quite liked Sanzigen’s last CG robot show BBK/BRNK. However, the first thing you notice is that ID-0 looks very different, and not in a good way – there’s a lot more robots in this, which means that all the animation effort went to them and the humans actually look significantly worse than average for a CG show. The second thing you notice is that this is a Goro Taniguchi joint, because it’s distinctly reminiscent of Active Raid. Instead of Kamen Rider Police, it’s Real Robot Sentai in Space, but the tone’s the same and so is the (lack of) coherency: A small girl researcher in the space future of space falls in with some hammy color-coded rogues in mechas that go around stealing deposits of the magic plot particle. The gimmick here seems to be that the mechas aren’t really piloted as such, but the pilot transfers their consciousness over to the machine for the duration of the mission, and in the first episode this already opens so many plotholes that it’s hard to even start picking them apart. So it’s real robots that don’t make much sense combined with only moderately engaging character comedy (which I assume will not ever pay off because the same thing happened in Active Raid) combined with subpar looks for everything that isn’t action, and the action itself isn’t glorious either - it’s just garish and hard to follow. The mecha designs are pretty good, which will undoubtedly make the /m/ faction happy, but I look for additional qualities so I think I’ll stay away.

Kenka Banchou Otome - Girl Beats Boys

In concept, Kenka Banchou Otome seems like it has potential: A girl enters (under obvious false premises) a school full of ridiculous delinquent thugs that only want to fight all day. This would have potential for a pretty cool comedy, but KBO is based on one of them PSP PS Vita otome dating sims, and it totally plays out like one too. Obviously I prefer it if something absurd like this is played straight instead for laffos 100% of the time, but this is played straight to a degree where it just isn’t much different from all the other otome dating sim adaptations any more, and that makes the premise fade into the background and the whole show not very compelling. It’s 1/3-length too, which seems to not leave much room to develop it legitimately. Oh well.

Makeruna!! Aku no Gundan!

In even shorter short news, this is 5 minutes of an ogre alien buying a franchise to conquer earth for business purposes. This is about as funny as it sounds (for those paying attention, this means “more funny than not at all” for me, which is more than I expect), and it looks pretty alright too. So yeah, I kinda like this. Problem is just that these shorts have to be outstandingly good for me to bother, and Aku no Gundan is still just decent overall. People who habitually watch comedy shorts may want to check it out, the rest of us will just laugh at the mad dyslexic Gundam fans who watch it on accident.

PriPri Chii-chan!!

Since this comes out on the same day, is also half-length, is by the same studio and for the same age bracket as Pascal-sensei, I’ll just assume the two make up a programming block. My impression of it is roughly the same as well. PriPri seems more girly, since it’s about a girl who finds a cutesy offbrand Kirby creature with a terrible speech quirk that likes human food, but apart from that it’s also a mascot comedy that’s decidedly Not For Me. One thing that’s notable is that it’s noticeably well animated for a thing like this, but I’m just adding that because there’s not much else to say.

Room Mate

Room Mate is technically a sequel to last season’s (involuntary) comedy short One Room, only instead of cute girl neighbours talking at a dork, it’s a cute boy harem talking at a dorkette. This iteration of it doesn’t stick to the first-person POV nearly as strictly as the original and seems generally more formulaic, but since the audiences kinda don’t overlap by definition I doubt anyone will notice (note: please don’t get mad at me if you’re a bisexual with a fetish for bad anime shorts, your existence is hereby acknowledged). For the connoisseur of weirdness I’d recommend One Room over this, since Room Mate is significantly watered down in the presentation department. And nobody else should watch either of them.

Shuumatsu Nani Shitemasuka Isogashii Desuka Sukutte Moratte Ii Desuka

Yay, finally some light novel ass light novel titles. Apparently people call this SukaSuka but since I’m a dick I’ll call it DesuDesu instead. So, DesuDesu is about a fairly nondescript guy in a fantasy universe that runs on racism who gets roped into taking care of a gaggle of cute fantasy children, an ogre maid and some other cute girl. Said fantasy children are also superweapons... somehow. So this may be the most contemporary anime concept of the season, since it is a harem and is full of dadfeels. Apart from being some hot tropes of the day jammed together, it’s pretty okay though - it thankfully doesn’t have isekai or RPG stat bullshit, the cute children are actually cute, and it looks alright (especially on the design side). It might be worth keeping an eye on DesuDesu if it keeps delivering on its strengths.

Sin - Nanatsu no Taizai

For those disappointed in Tsugumomo not living up to its manga’s reputations, here’s some real softcore porn. The story seems kind of incidental to the nipples but here it is anyway: Hot chick angel Lucifer somehow screws up in heaven and is cast into hell for it, where she meets the equally hot chick rulers of the place (the seven mortal sins) who specialize in being evil and not wearing much clothes. Some fighting ensues and results in clothing damage, then Lucifer takes off towards the mortal plane to erotically bother some schoolgirls. It’s basically a Christian-themed Valkyrie Drive, i.e. lesbian porn for dudes with some fights tacked on. The Crunchyroll version is predictably censored to hell and back (pun intended), but this is an AT-X show so the uncensored version is readily available for people immoral enough to watch and pirate it. Personally, I think I learned my lesson with Valkyrie Drive.

Zero kara Hajimeru Mahou no Sho

So after DesuDesu was just a straight up fantasy LN without any of the standard bullshit concepts, Zero does the same thing. You have to put up with it starring someone’s fursona instead of a reincarnated otaku douchebag, but I’d take that deal. Zero is even more unusual in that it even seems to be neither a harem nor otaku midlife crisis compensation, at least for now: It’s just about a burly cat dude teaming up with a snarky loli witch and them going on adventures. So it’s reminiscent of a genderswapped Spice&Wolf, only about fantasy racism instead of economics. Like DesuDesu, it’s pretty decent but I don’t know if it not being shit is enough of a selling point for me; On its own merits it seems to mainly be a competent but somewhat bland fantasy story. I might give it a try but I don’t expect much.

[flametajadoru]

Man I love sukasuka but it's hard to know which tag to browse because its title is so stupidly and unnecessarily complicated.

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Screen-Capture(s) of the Week:

Shuumatsu Nani Shitemasuka? Isogashii Desuka? Sukutte Moratte Ii Desuka? #06. 「消えない過去、消えていく未来」 (”No News was Good News”)

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