When I saw the names Go Nagai and Yoshihiro Yonetani together, I figured they'd produce something absolutely batshit.
Was not disappointed.
I'd seen the recent Enma-kun OAV, which was a fairly disastrous attempt to gritty up the property; Yonetani, naturally, embraces Go Nagai's penchant for cringe-worthy humor with such gusto that I found it hard not to laugh, even when the heroine is doing a pee dance, or the old lady at the sento is swinging her tits around. And the monster of the week spawning a giant metal cock for Enma to sword fight is pretty much awesome by any standard.
Objectively, this is not at all a good show, but the unique energies of these two madmen seem to feed off each other fairly well; if the opening above gets you wet, then FUCK, watch it.
We also checked out the first episode of Tiger and Bunny, which was fun; let's hope they don't hit the workaholic dad has no time for his kid cliche too hard, because the corporate sponsored heroes working for points on a reality TV show premise is working for me better than I expected.
Saturday, April 16, 2011
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I've always got time for Yonetani, though nothing he's done since Gaogaigar has quite lived up to it. Come to think of it, I need to finish watching Brigadoon.
ReplyDeleteSo far my favorite show of the new season, watching reminded me of Gegege no kitaro or Jigoku sensei nube. I miss this type of occult/fantastic kids series with a traditionnal/folklore background. A bit of immature, 'dirty' humour on screen, typical of Go Nagai's Harenchi Gakuen type of works, is a breath of fresh air, too.
ReplyDeleteMm, I'm not really feeling Tiger and Bunny yet. It's hitting a lot of classic Stan Lee superhero beats, but I've kind of ODed on those. That Pepsi ad is amazingly meta though, I almost have to respect their sheer ballsy huckstering. Which is also in the Mighty Marvel Manner!
ReplyDeleteI definitely agree, which is why I'm low balling it for now; it is well done, and I was tickled by how Katsura designs wind up looking modern and fresh.
ReplyDeleteI also wonder, given the surprisingly good English text in the show, if it's an intentional joke that the guy with fire powers is also totally flaming.
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