MM! #06 — Family Bondage

November 5th, 2010

 

Yuuno’s off-center ponytail bothers me.

Impressions:

A pretty funny episode, although both a bit vacuous given past episodes (DBZ one notwithstanding) as well as wielding the drama stick with a lot less grace than previously. The first half was pretty much just one of Mio’s cosplay training sequences for Tarou, only for half the episode instead of 60 seconds before the OP. It had its moments, and Xebec was really chomping at the bit to do everything but flash Mio’s panties in a couple shots, but it was pretty brainless. At least it was better than the DBZ parody. More the pity that they seem to be going back to that next week. Hopefully it’s just one throwaway joke instead of dominating the whole thing.

The second half was Tarou’s family inviting Yuuno over and barely holding themselves back from eviscerating her the entire time until they finally snapped and interrupted a potentially tender moment and started arguing over which one of them Tarou loved more based on his childhood paraphernalia. I did appreciate their plan to drive off Yuuno by trashing his room and hanging up male body builder posters all over it. Yuuno has some family issues as well apparently, although they didn’t really get into what exactly. Just a lot of "You have such a wonderful family. And I wish I could have a nice family too. Family family family." Yuuno and Tarou make a cute couple though, and there isn’t a lot of contrivance or deus ex machina misunderstandings tacked on to every one of their interactions that gets in the way of it.

Preview:

Beach trip with the genius.

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16 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • sage says:

    Yuuno’s faces are priceless.

    Also…

    Yuuno’s off-center ponytail bothers me.

    Fsck you, she looked lovely. You disappoint me.

  • Newprimus says:

    The mom and the sister are my favorite characters in this series cause they’re both so berserk and over-the-top with their Tarou-con.

  • wilson191 says:

    That no panty flashing scene looks like futa….lol

  • Shinji103 says:

    http://tenka.seiha.org/images2/mm6/mm6_8.jpg

    Aaaaaand now they’ve spooked Sheryl of Macross Frontier.

    Unless that outfit is way more generic than I thought. ^^b

    http://tenka.seiha.org/images2/mm6/mm6_12.jpg

    But I bet the DVD/BDs feature the panties. ^^b

  • Wilfriback says:

    To be honest I also took a liking to the character of Yuuno.

    http://tenka.seiha.org/images2/mm6/mm6_31.jpg
    The legend of legendary rape faces.

    http://tenka.seiha.org/images2/mm6/mm6_35.jpg
    A face like that returened me the Nipah age.

  • Gawl says:

    Another great episode of MM! This show is shaping up to be my “diamond in the ruff” anime-wise this season. Look forward to more “Super Hell Masochist”, next episode.

  • luka says:

    where is dad? :)

  • alex says:

    so wrong and so good :)
    the start with sis breathing with Tarou was great
    yay, super-saya-Tarou next time and NoaXsukumizu – that will be one wrong episode again…can’t wait :)

  • Mesousa says:

    The ending was EPIC! Sado doesn’t have to be a masochist to be evil.

  • Mika says:

    Needs more Mio.

  • Zilla says:

    …did I seriously just watch Tarou get jizz on Mio’s hand? What the fuck, Xebec?

  • Aex says:

    The mother and sister are the best! That was just… wow. Next time we switch back to Dragon Masochist Z!!

  • KLAC_AWESOME says:

    mu ha ha really this ep is mu ha ha really make more asking DUB it english.