Sometimes you read a manga and it doesn’t work for you, then it gets an anime adaptation and it all clicks? Well, Midara na Ao-chan wa Benkyou ga Dekinai isn’t one of those. The first episode was less than 13 minutes long, but I didn’t even make it half way. Horie Ao, our protagonist is a very serious high school student convinced all the boys are sex crazed monsters, because she was raised by her porn writing father and he is a sex crazed monster. And that’s the joke. It’s deeply unpleasant as well as not very funny, nor is thhe idea of “ha ha she’s actually horny all the time behind her serious student facade”. Dropped.
The one joke in Nobunaga-sensei no Osanazuma is that the wife to be of famous Japanese warlord Oda Nobunaga is displaced in time and mistakes his far distant descendant also called Oda Nobunaga for the real thing. She’s fourteen so of marriagable age and therefore immediately attempts to sleep with our protagonist, who at least has the grace to refuse. Nevertheless his first reaction to finding her in his arms is that it’s like one of those anime where a girl falls from the sky so she’s going to be his wife. He’s a teacher by the way and in the very first scene one of his students tells him she’ll marry him after she graduates if he remains single, which he is actually happy about and just no.
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