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Kaguya-sama & Ueno-san — First Impressions

Published on January 27, 2019Leave a comment

Christ, this is ridiculously cute.

Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai is a manga about two supposed super geniuses in love with each other, who each want to make the other confess to them because to confess is to lose. I tried to read it but it was the cringiest of cringe comedy and I’m not good with that. The anime series so far however has been a lot easier to handle. The presence of pure cinnamon roll Chika here helps a lot. Unlike the two protagonists, she has no side for her and her innocence completely ends up destroying most of their intricate schemes to trap one another. And this ending to episode 3 is the most addictive I’ve seen since Hisone to Maso-tan‘s. A brilliant piece of animation too from a studio most people consider workman like at best.

Kaguya Sama: brilliant blushes

Each episode so far has had two to three little stories in which student council president Shirogane Miyuki tries to get his vice president Shinomiya Kaguya to confess to him while she tries to do the same to him. All while their poor secretary looks on in bewilderment. It’s usually Kaguya who loses and starts blushing, which is cute but slightly annoying; it seems unfair to have only Kaguya lose. Even if she blushes cutely. Comedy wise it’s all a bit meh. I haven’t really had to laugh too much. My main complaint is that it’s not absurd enough, a bit pedestrian, especially when you compare it to some of the comedies from last year, like e.g Hinamatsuri. The romance is a bit stuck as well because of course the whole gimmick is that neither of these two can ever admit to their feelings and their schemes will always backfire. Nevertheless I like it enough to continue watching.

Ueno-san wa Bukiyou: drink her pee Tanaka

Speaking of cringe comedy, Ueno-san wa Bukiyou, about a scientific genius who tries to get her club mate to fall in love with her using dubious scientific experiments. Like in the first episode, where she attempts to get him to drink her (scientifically filtered) urine. Gods know why she bothers though because Tanaka is an insensitive dullard. Again, not something that’s really that funny but it’s short and interesting enough to keep my attention.

Graham, Graham, Graham Glinner — there really is no one dimmer

Published on January 21, 2019Leave a comment

Graham Linehan has been mentioned here before, but now we’ve got a new person more mature than our Glinner and his very normal obsession with trans women. Twitch streamer Hbomberguy got pissed off so much at Glinner’s attempt to defund the trans youth charity Mermaids he decided to start a stream to raise money for it:

So far he’s managed to raise over £250,000 for Mermaids and made tens of thousands of people aware of how much of a transphobic knob Glinner is. Who said gamers were all trash?

Girly Airforce — first impressions

Published on January 19, 2019Leave a comment

I was prepared to give Girly Airforce a chance, despite its utterly boring premise and mediocre looking animation, until this sorry excuse for a CGI Mig-21 showed up:

The Chinese do not use shitty looking CGI Mig-21s

And that is clearly a Mig-21 and not say one of the Chengdu J-7 variants that the Chinese airforce is actually still flying. A minor detail perhaps, but telling. When I first heard this I thought this was going to be like that fictional series from Shirobako, where you have a bunch of cute girls flying interesting planes defending the world against alien invasion. Well, that’s sort of what’s going on here, but a) the planes are butt ugly and a bit boring and b) the girls are actually AIs that need the protagonist’s manly touch to work properly and now I’ve lost all interest. Dude’s an asshole too, spending the entire first episode screaming his head off at everybody and anybody about how he wants to fly. There’s just nothing to keep me here, nothing that hasn’t been done before and better.

Dropped.

Watashi ni Tenshi ga Maiorita! — First Impressions

Published on January 8, 2019Leave a comment

My, what a pretty bit of animation. Dogo Kobo really is a top tier anime studio, putting so much effort in and talent on their slice of moe series.

Nevermind though:

One day, fifth grader Hinata Hoshino brings her friend Hana Shirosaki to her house, and Hinata’s sister Miyako, a college student, falls in love with with Hana at first sight. Miyako manages to get along with Hana somehow, but her clumsy behavior and shyness, makes Hana wary. Even so, Hana gradually opens up to Miyako, who wants to become closer to her.

It’s another pedo yuri series, where a cute little girl is menaced by an adult woman overcome by her cuteness, just like last season. This series is not as over the top as that was, which I’m not sure is an improvement to be honest, making it all more realistically creepy. A shame so much talent and effort is put into something like this. Can’t we just have a proper yuri series, with actual consenting adults falling in love, rather than this pedoshit?

Why Japan would’ve always lost the war

Published on January 5, 2019Leave a comment

Idly browsing through grognard Youtube I came across this neat little video showcasing the difference in economic strength between Japan and the US by just listing every ship build by either country from December 7, 1941.

The Japanese leadership was well aware of this discrepancy in strength of course; admiral Yamamoto, architect of the attack on Pearl Harbour had said he could only guarantee success for six months to a year. The idea had always been to deal a crippling blow to the US navy in the Pacific, then consolidate and go on the defence, hoping to wear down the US to a negotiated peace. That obviously didn’t work and the overwhelming superiority of the US ship building industry is one reason.