First impression: Akiba’s Trip

A NEET goes to Akihabara with his little sister for a little shopping, gets involved with a strange girl and learns he has to strip people to free them from demonic possession.

Akiba Strip: quick on the uptake

It’s about as idiotic a premise as last season’s Kejio!!!!!!!! with its butt and breast based wrestling and this is very likely to end up as just a fanservice show, but the first two episodes had a touch of humour to it that promised a little bit more than just that. Your milage may vary, but I don’t mind this sort of fanservice too much if it stays on the level of what’s been shown so far, especially if it’s equal opportunity stripping as seen in episode two.

Akiba Strip: a weak excuse

This girl here turns out to be the latest in a long line of people protecting Akihabara from the Bugged Ones, people possessed by low level demons in service of the real enemy, the Hazoku, of which she is one, there apparantly having been a split in th Hazoku about whether to invade or protect Akiba. Our NEET was turned into one as well as a consequence of getting involved and now cannot leave the town. Not too bad a fate for somebody like him.

Akiba Strip: stripped

If there is a problem with fanservice in this show, it’s less things like the above, but more one particular character: the blonde, Finnish weeaboo who’s just a little bit too quick to strip herself. She was interesting in the first episode, with unexplained superhero strength that got her suspected as a Bugged One, but in the second seemed to be reduced to fanservice girl.

Akiba Strip: defeated

Nevertheless, this looks interesting enough to continue with. Light entertainment, perhaps not as zany as Keijo!!!!!!!!, but decent enough to keep following for now in a so far not very good season.

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