This screenshot from its last episode sums up Sounan Desu ka best:
Four school girls get stranded on a deserted island with nothing but the clothes on their backs. Luckily the girl from the screenshot has been trained by her father from an early age in the fine art of survival, which quite often turns out to be something mildly or not so mildly humiliating. In this case it was because two of the girls were stranded on a raft with only bat guano polluted water to drink. They had the choice of drinking the water and getting sick to the point of diarrhea and vomiting, or not drink and get dehydrated to the point of collapse. Luckily our survival expert had a third option: ingest water through the anus, which involves taking a gulp and pushing it into the other girl’s butt. Ray Meirs never had to do that…
It’s this sort of humiliation play that the series derives most of its humour from. The contrast between the matter of fact Homare, who sees nothing strange about all this and the other three girls, ill prepared for life on an inhabited island is what makes this series. It can all get a bit much as in the last episode and if you don’t like this style of humiliation based gross out humour, this isn’t really a series for you. Apart from that what sets this series apart from any other cute girls doing cute things is the survival aspect. Every episode has Homare teaching the others some handy little survival trick or two and usual grossness apart, it’s always interesting. In all, I liked this series, something fun that at half length episodes never outstayed its welcome.
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