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Creeeeeeeeepy.

Impressions:

This really was a pretty terrible episode across the board. I was already resigned to it being nothing but nonsensical filler and was pretty sure that the irritating animals would be assaulting us with their squeaky voices, but the whole thing turned out to be a lot more irritating than I was expecting. There were a few decent moments here and there, like the animals awakening to their inner masochists at the end, but aside from that, it was neither bizarre enough to be amusing nor was it interesting enough to… well… not suck.  Just a pretty crappy fanservicey bodyswap episode all around because they apparently had a hole in their schedule. I think I’d be more forgiving if they had tucked this away as a DVD extra.

I don’t even want to think about MILF Natsuru and creepy-mustached Natsuru having a child together either. That’s well beyond the bounds of what my brain can handle. I think it’s even creepier than the amusement park themed around ways to die. That’s the kind of crap the Joker comes up with.

Final thoughts at the bottom.

Final Thoughts:

Kampfer never really lived up to its potential. The first couple episodes were all about the premise, and it was a mindless but solid one; girls fight things. That, plus decent animation, a protagonist with at least a small pair of balls, and great music made things promising. And then all of that except the music totally vanished and we got a lesbian romantic comedy instead until the end, where somehow the corniness took over the quasi-serious scene and managed to keep the comedy going. It made an okay comedy, and I don’t regret watching it at all, but thinking about on the show, all that I can think about is how much better it could have been if it had kept up what it did right in the first few episodes. Hell, if Natsuru had just retained what little testicular fortitude he had in those episodes, things would have been a lot better.

In the end, it really just ended up being pretty brainless, although more comedy than action. That’s okay. There’s certainly nothing wrong with that, but it’s the kind of thing that’s more fun to talk about and make fun of together than actually watch. I like to think of this show as the perfect target for a good MST3K viewing, the problem is that I remain unsure for the most part as to how much of that is intentional. I’ll give them the ending, but that still leaves a significant chunk of the other 9 episodes or so where my money is on the writers being drunk, not good.

Anyway, not a horrible way to spend Thursdays between classes for me, and really, that’s all that matters in the end. If there’s a sequel, I’ll probably watch it, but I’m not going to be crying any tears when this show vanishes from the face of the Earth forever either.