#boueibu ova

[crazy-grrrl-on-the-computer]

After the ballet-bu/volleyball realization, I suddenly remembered that the Binan principal is seen for the first time in the OVA and it occurred to me that there is yet another parallel between him and Yumoto.

[thatlittledandere]

Know what- I enjoy the AMVs. I agree including them in the OVA was a lousy decision and absolutely a detriment to the episode as a whole, but they are good fanservice to someone who's intimately familiar to the songs and jus has fun mindlessly singing and jamming along lol

[koolkitty9]

It has been....twice...three times? for me?

[hapalopus]

I just finished my first complete rewatch since 2017 and I can't believe I forgot that this is how it ended

[5-pp-man]

watching tnb again now that i know more japanese, and hearing them describe sky high as "tennen" makes me feel very vindicated in making that one post.

[boueibutruefacts]

The full, uncut OVA was overwritten by accident, so they released a version with flashbacks to pad out the runtime of an earlier draft.

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[yaoisex]

I'm so excited for the Boueibu movie, I'm re-watching all the DVDs, Lives and events and listening to all the songs. I've re-watched the anime and OVAs not too long ago as well.

I just can't contain all the feels. My heart feels warm, I can't stop smiling while listening to all the songs again and watching the seiyuu events.

I was also going through my Boueibu tag. So many amazing posts throughout the years. This fandom is really one of the best. I had the best time while the anime was going on and everyone was fangirling every week.

I demand magazine covers, photoshoots, interviews and stage events for the movie. I NEED EVERYTHING! I need to see the cast together again!!!

[goakizaizinski]

Boueibu Interview Notes

There was a few things with En and Atsushi's voice actors that caught my attention (https://www.crank-in.net/interview/158505/1) and I used Google Translate, so I apologize if any information is incorrect: -Nishiyama/Atsushi's VA was sick on the original day of recording, so they did the four together and he did it solo. I feel bad for him, but hopefully it will still sound good and he can meet up with the other four either for promoting the movie/some other time. -There is some flashbacks, but it mainly is 10 years in the future. So, it sounds like it mostly does take place in the future. I'm kind of hoping AU or something else, but more on this later. -The group does rush and meet up together, but it almost sounds like they did it once it reached a crisis. I hope I'm wrong or interpreting it wrong, but this seems like they lazily wait until the last minute/world is going to end to help out. Which, after all the guys have been through together and what they had said at the end of the OVA, seems rather out of character. Especially since you add in that they are all adults and should have matured by now to understand the stakes of what is happening. The thing that raised my eyebrows the most, but also upset me was this:

I have no words for this. I understand where they are coming from, but En is proven to be smart and try when he wants to be. Unless a bunch of stuff out of his control happened, it doesn't make sense why it sounds and looks (from the trailer) like he's literally living on the streets. If En has good grades, he couldn't get into a decent college/secondary education and then find a somewhat decent job? Or find a job after graduating high school? It doesn't make sense to me. The best case scenarios is he's at a low level job based on the blurry shot in the trailer. Otherwise, these words and the trailer really make it sound like he's begging on the streets. If the living on the streets is true, on top of that, Atsushi doesn't come to help him? The other Battle Lovers? Io supposedly has money. Heck, Yumoto would probably invite him to work at the bath or something. The fact that he's left all alone by them seems off. If all this is true, I really hope this will turn out to be an AU/Dream or something as the guys drifting apart, En looking like he's, at best, a low level job (but mostly sounds like he's probably living on the streets or something similar), not helping each other, possibly ignoring Yumoto/the big threat until the end, etc. sounds really OOC. I understand going for realism and stuff, but this seems really pushing the boundaries, at least from what I envisioned after the OVA. I know that's my thought, but I'm curious what other people think.

[deuterium51614]

I went down a rabbit hole...

It has a "sample" watermark, but it's a higher quality version of the VEPPer tied-up poster. (Plus, the watermark isn't as obtrusive as the version on the Boueibu website, so it could probably be edited out much easier!)

Process:

Found out that it was a bonus with the OVA on the Neowing store. The preview there was very small, so...

I did a reverse image search on Google and chose "find image source." This revealed some links that weren't in the main results!

Found the listing on Neowing from there.

If you just click on the image, it's bigger but still kinda small, so I right-clicked on it and opened it in a new tab.

Also, it's not referred to as a poster, but a portrait, specifically:

2Lポートレイト

So hopefully knowing what it was originally called, and where it originally came from will help narrow down the hunt in auctions!

Fun fact, there was also a towel with this design paired as an extra with the OVA on a site referred to as キャラアニ.com, but it's cropped into a square:

[apneusance]

im rewatching the boueibu ova and im sobbing over how they matched the scenes to lyrics in ryuu's little amv

[ibusukiss]

Boueibu Rewatch

Thursday's for the Boys! 10

Happy Kiss! Episodes 1-3

ITS TIME FOR HAPPY KISS LETS GOOOO

Episode 1

I had to pause the episode to start typing this out bc im so in love with these characters i cant take my eyes off of them LOL

Immediately I am reminded why HK is my favorite - it is SO much more character interaction focused than love. Dont get me wrong - i love the s1 boys a lot, but the show doesnt give them their moments to interact with eachother as much as HK does - everyone gets Their Moment to interact with the other characters, not just the ones the show is 'shipping' with them! and I love this season for it!

Nanao is so fascinating, bc all the other characters kinda have their S1 equivalent e-

ATA IS ON SCREEN OMG ITS HIM

ok anyway - except for Nanao - hes also seems more nuanced than the others somehow? idk hes just neat

this seitokai is soooo mean girls

it is a CRIME that they made such cute designs for Karls and Fura as humans and theyre hardly ever in their human forms the whole show T_T

I also appreciate this season knows that we are very familiar with the formula of Boueibu already and they get straight to the point

I love how mad kyochan gets at karls XD

This monster is just having his twink death crisis

I do love these transformations - though I have always wondered why they seem to have put a filter over it? The colors just look a bit dark/muted?

God, when I first saw these costumes I loved them but thought they were so dumb - I still think that now LOL - my picky things are I think Nanao and Taishi's hair colors clash too much with their knight colors, and overall the saturation on all their designs could be turned down a bit haha

theyre breaking the fourth wall so much i kinda forgot abt that

its also refreshing that they have to convince kyochan to lead them, since yumoto is such a charismatic leader for 2 seasons, its a nice change to have kind of a useless leader

hot take all music from HK slaps no i dont take criticism

they rly do acknowledge and then glance over the fact that Karls and Fura are like...drafting them into a war for power lmao

Episode 2

It is the BEST that they all know eachother from the beginning - and the fact that the only characters taking it seriously are Ata and Fura (and Karls but not to the same extent)

Ah yes Honyalaland - i have built such a beautiful AU around it that reflects NOTHING of what is actually in the show

hkjksdjkns kyoata interactions save me

headcanon that ata has trouble sleeping until he starts sleeping next to kyochan and then he sleeps really well

I know theyre trying to show that Kyochan is oblivious that Ata doesnt like him but I like to see it as he is just more mature than Ata, and he wants to still be friends with him, so he isnt gonna get upset with ata speaking his mind

omg fura tying up ata with vines sounds like one of my fanfics but its CANON

human fura rly is pretty man

I say this will all the love in my heart - edelstein has the weakest transformation BUT that doesnt stop me from loving it anyway

this ep always makes me crave karaage bento

I have dragon age brainrot rn so all I can think of when I hear 'Neve Kiss' is Neve Gallus kiss, and u know what? i would.

Is this the most evil Taiju is the whole season? LOL

Episode 3

This is probs one of my favorite episodes in all three seasons - it was the episode that proved to me that HK is my favorite season

GOD there is so much unspoken history between Nanao and Taiju- theyre clearly close friends but we never realllyyy learn when or how they met, we just know theyve known eachother since at least their 1st year of high school

toshiyuki toyonaga is SO good in this ep

ok...im dumb, i just got that maasa's reaction to ice cream boy insisting on calling something by its full name was due to his discomfort with his birth name..im dumb

Ata is such a little freak I love himmmm

i guess i like this ep bc it feels kinda OVA-ish

ponytail nanao so cute

maasa and ata sitting together rly just look like mean preps lmao

Bag closure monster is BEST monster. BEST!

this also taught me a lot of japanese words for random things

also Tyndall effect (chindaru genshou) just reminds me of the bit in Uramichi Onisan with miyano mamoru laughing at dick jokes

KDNSJK Taiju and Nanao on ice cream date is so good AND THEM CALLING EACH OTHER ENEMY!!!!

im so glad we're on HK :D and this much closer to the movie release!!!!!!!!!!

[thatlittledandere]

EDIT: Should have linked this originally my bad here it is

[koolkitty9]

Boueibu and Sailor Moon?

Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE! is obscure apparently, but this wonderful Magical Boy show has a handful of Sailor Moon refs.

While making the show, each boy was dubbed "Lack-Luster Sailor" and apparently had a Tuxedo Mask type character who was later scrapped. But if you watch the entire LOVE! Series, you will see some refs to Sailor Moon (and other magical girl shows).

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S1's OP includes a ref to the old senshi poses we saw EVERYWHERE back in the early 2000s

The s1 manga includes a page (Thanks to my friends in the fandom from a few years ago for translating it) that parodies s1ep1 of Sailor Moon. (Dare I say it, the Student Council are the Outer Senshi of this anime but apparently they were based more off the four Shitennou)

Atsushi's original end pose was Jupiter's as well in the production notes

They transform using bracelets, much like the senshi do in Live Action Sailor Moon/PGSM (Except they can't remove them)

s2 has even MORE refs to Sailor Moon, especially Yumoto's transformation and his attacks (as he is this show's Sailor Moon). He even parodies Spiral Heart Moon Attack! in his final attack

Yumoto also mimics the Moon Healing Escalation attack as well

Then in the s2 finale, we see Ryuu do the classic In the Name of the Moon pose

The OVA has the pose from Usagi's Disguise Pen transformation with Yumoto as well.

So, what I'm saying is (LOL) please watch Boueibu XD It may help fill your Sailor Moon Cosmos need.

okay BYE

*not all refs are here, these are off the top of my head

[applescabs]

tagged by @phoenixfangs yayyaa get ready for paragraph assault. it's vacation so I'm watching lots of shit.

reading: oof. lots and lots of things. plenty of ongoing mangas (i mostly follow by the volume) most notably I'm almost done w Homunculus (2 vol left) and King in Limbo's last omnibus is dropping on tuesday (i preordered it) so im excited for that! ig I'm also playing through slow damage rn, which is mostly a visual novel, but it has more gameplay than the usual nc visnov. its a mystery, which im always a fan of.

currently watching: 4 things w my brother; -boku no hero season 7. yes, season 7. yes, I still like this series, in fact I think it's really good and it's kinda funny to me how there's so many joke posts going around (made by people who havent even seen it) about it being shit. it airs on saturdays but we usually watch it on sundays (because that was more convenient last season and it sorta stuck) -isekai suicide squad. its entertaining/interesting enough and has some good animation sometimes. it airs on thursdays so we literally just watched the newest one. i like clayface n deadshot in this one. -blue lock. i went to the Nagi movie w another friend and then managed to convince Finn to watch the show with me. he's not a sports anime guy (this is his first) so we'll see how it goes, lmao. we're trying to watch s1 before s2 drops in october, but we're keeping it a weekly thing, watching it alongside new releases. -jojo part 3 ova. we watch this one sporadically since the episodes are longer than the standard nowadays, so he's not always in the mood. the music in this one was made by one guy with his midi soundboard, but I love the vibe of the whole thing, very different from david prod p3. I'm also watching 4 things myself; -Cowboy Bebop. constantly in awe of how good it looks. the fine details on the ships and weapons... augh. its making me want to check out more 90s animes. i'm also a big fan of how it does its storytelling, its got good visual language and utilises "show dont tell" well. i exclusively watch this one on the tv instead of my laptop, its too good for the laptop. -Shuumatsu Train. one that i didnt finish last season that i decided to pick back up, since its strange and interesting enough that it seems like a waste to leave unfinished. -Boueibu s1. im rewatching s1 so that i can immediately watch s2 afterwards (havent seen it yet) -Tasogare Outfocus. what can i say. i always watch anything gay that comes out (not that i always finish them...) i do also like movies and moviemaking so the backdrop interests me as well.

currently craving: im actually like. full af i just had icecream for desert plus an iced coffee afterwards. ig im craving brushing my teeth.

coffee or tea: see thats the thing. cant choose. im choosing both. i like to have both coffee and tea at night, coffee as a nice after dinner treat (mostly iced coffee, if it's hot i usually drink it in the afternoon) and tea late at night when I'm chilling. might make some tea after i stop being so full. also zach i might just have to take you to court over the sweet tea thing. better find a good lawyer.

tagginggg @kuwupikaa @sunflowermews @isleofair @drakefisher @xrd n anyone who feels compelled to do thisss

[5-pp-man]

Here we go again...

Oddly, this is the only scene not featuring Sugita Tomokazu. So that rules out the va joke theory... possibly.

Sugita Tomokazu tosses a ball around with 2 of his friends while they're discussing. something.

The one on the left messes up the toss and it flies off, cutting their conversation short.

[hellohimawarihana]

My Analysis about Binan Koukou Transformation

Do you remember magical girl? Being female and has superpowers from aging up to fighting baddies weren't a rarity in the genre today. But what if we gender swap them and make some parody about something?

That's where Binan Koukou comes in. Binan Koukou Chikyuu Boueibu (or "Boueibu" for official short name) is the series where the male quintet from Defense Club are forced to fight the monsters created by people with negative minds, and there's a villain trio (or duo in one case) that were responsible to this. If you watch Binan Koukou franchise until the end then you'll know how those teams will end up. And it's one of the anime series where All characters are boys! Even children are boys too! Whereas there's some characters mention girls on it, there's no single female shown in this Binan Koukou universe.

*cough* Well that aside, let's jump into the transformation part, shall we?

First off, are you familiar with Sailor Moon? For me, yes since it’s one of the anime I watch when I was young and it’s the first anime to have stock footage henshin. Unlike Sailor Moon, Binan Koukou has five members start transforming all at once in the first episode, so what will the staff do then? You’ll find out soon enough...

Protagonists

First off, Battle Lovers from LOVE. The red one, Yumoto has to kiss the bracelet after saying ‘Love Making!’, and the scene goes of him naked, he then creates glazes and start forming his battle suit step-by-step, before introducing himself as Battle Lover Scarlet (those familiar with GoPri that aired on the same year will compare him with Cure Scarlet by name). Notice these scene one by one?

How about the rest of the team? Just look at them, they just form a glaze to surround them, and burst off in full cloth, unlike Yumoto. Long story short, they make a similar case to Sailor Moon’s member. They even keep their hairstyle and even glasses for Atsushi/Epinard (green). The main point of this henshin is the dark-colored background turned lighter upon the completion and the colored naked bodies. Out of all the kissing scene, Ryuu/Vesta (pink) has the best one because of happy face and open eyes during kissing. Anyway, does these scenes remind you of Sailor Mercury’s transformation? Yep, because they’re showing back by the revealing the clothes instantly.

Now you understand? Then let’s move onward to the second season of the first series.

Even with less step, Yumoto still show that he’s the only one with step-by-step henshin. Now with expression to put the cherry on top. The henshin was completed with the formation of the ribbon.

The rest of the team are still shortened and it’s not even good. They surround themselves with the glaze in different way and without any revealing sound, they appear in full cloth. The main point of the henshin is the colored line of their naked bodies and the sparkles in kissing scene, which has different fist pose before kissing. They keep both henshin sequences from here and the first series in the OVA.

Now we'll move on to the second team: Karurusu Knights from HAPPY KISS. Given the same studio that animate the previous season, they kept the traits of: theme color lined nude body, and the activeness. But this one has a weird start.

(unlike previous seasons, these transformations from HAPPY KISS were darkened a LOT, so most pictures are corrected by me. I know that the BD version will fix this, but I can’t find the torrent anywhere...)

The mascot transforms into human and lands to create a wide water barrier. Then the user enters the barrier without getting wet and the mascot reveals a symbol on his hand to be kissed by the user, with no incantation! Although not pictured, there are 5-colored rays of light surrounding Kyotaro/Fiore before activating his transformation.

And in the stock footage, the red leader, Kyotaro, appear naked alone and perform magic by the rod to form the suit step-by-step, starting with right boots. I kind of not liking the one with short shorts because only showing navel at first, and a rising shoulders before summoning gloves. Like Yumoto, Kyotaro completed his henshin by forming a ribbon.

The rest have almost the worst shortened henshin. With similar method (minus the rays of light). They spin their rod (except Ichiro/Spazio [pink]) and encase their naked body in ice shaped in respective theme and quickly breaks. As the scene fades in, they’re fully clothed, keeping their hairstyle like Kyotaro and even glasses for Taishi/Neve (blue). Sailor Moon fans will notice they’re similar to Sailor Jupiter and Sailor Venus henshin from the first anime. Sailor Neptune and Sailor Pluto are also the same as the four from Happy Kiss, but without lip scene. Does Ichiro’s full cloth scene reminds you of Atsushi’s from the previous season?

In case of the name, I've been wondering upon watching it: since the series named HAPPY KISS, why they need to have ‘Kiss’ in their warrior name? (like Fiore Kiss, Stella Kiss, Luna Kiss, Neve Kiss and Spazio Kiss) But since they kiss the mascot’s hand, it makes sense, however at that time they felt unmatched for me at all.

Villains

How about the villains? Well, let’s see... for LOVE, there’s Caerula Adamas. For Kinshiro (Chevalier Orite) he scans his right leg and he’s done. The rest of the trio (Ibushi/Argent and Akoya/Perlite) aren’t even a sequence at all aside of roll call and pose.

They’re pretty much the same in terms of the two version of their battle costume (S1's black and S2's white) so I’m not gonna say much, but Kinshiro’s pose with his ring in S2 are very badass at least.

Season 2 introduces the singer duo Haruhiko/Salty Sol and Akihiko/Melty Luna from VEPPER. Where Sol handles the arm, Luna handles the leg. Then there’s split screen then another separate scene for them.

HAPPY KISS introduces Edelstein with the same treatment as Caerula Adamas and Karurusu Knights because their mascot must be in human form to activate their battle form. Ata (Ritter Diamant) has the full body ping while Taiju/Rosenquarz and Masa/Amethyst aren’t even a sequence. But posing-wise they’re better than the previous trio, especially Masa/Amethyst.

And their pose with the rings are cool too, and I especially love their transformation phrase. "Die Verwandlung!!"

Now can you realize the similarities? If you’re familiar with Sailor Moon then yes, the trio are alike Outer Senshi while Beppu siblings are alike Sailor Starlight. In my opinion, among all villain transformations in the franchise, Beppu brothers from S2 are the best one.

Others

Aside from those, there's some transformations where it occurs very short with just posing, though it's reasonable for a number of reasons.

Battle Lovers are forced to de-age into kids that their battle outfit were oversized for them to wear. And the group roll call at the end is simple but cute.

Karurusu Knights reversed this as they become grandpas! I can't imagine them actually transforming in that state, but I really like Taishi/Neve's pose here, it's so funny.

Okay, guess I covered the entire thing from the series and let's end this session with ''Happy Powder!''

In conclusion, these two series has only the red leader performing like the regular transformation do, and the other four and almost all villains just do something to be instantly appear in full cloth afterwards, just like the rest of the member of Sailor Moon. While LOVE members can transform by their own, Happy Kiss requires their respective mascot in human form which it felt a bit like PriMagi (for beginning part, at least). I’m feeling the rest of the four’s transformation animation are just getting worse season by season, but the flow without worrying about it is still awesome, though. But give this franchise a pass if you want all members including the leader have longer step-by-step henshin because you might be disappointed if you watch Binan Koukou and even Sailor Moon’s transformations (because I'm a fan of step-by-step transformation and that's why the males from non-magical girl shows had one of the best transformation in my opinion). That’s enough analysis for now and I’ll see you in my next post!