Medaka Box #03 — Sparkling Men

April 18th, 2012

 

There were entirely too many half-naked men today.

Impressions:

Like I said last week, I think my interest will last only so long as Deen Zombies #1 continues to rehash the last season and fill the time with utter nonsense. On the up side (or down side), it doesn’t look like that’s going to stop any time soon. This episode wasn’t much better though. The music was back to annoying and in true Jump fashion, about 75% of the episode was spent with characters standing around explaining to each other (or even better, themselves) the context for what was going on and why it was ‘important.’ Much of the remainder was on sparkling half naked men, of which Zombiessu already gave me far more than I wanted to see today.

I’m a little surprised they didn’t pad out the first half more in some way as that really seemed like it could’ve or should’ve had a lot more to it while at the same time, the second half of the episode ended up with what could be charitably called a cliffhanger and split between this week and next. Why they didn’t just put the whole thing in a single cohesive episode instead of breaking things up is beyond me, but I’ve given up trying to understand what the hell Japanese writers are trying to think. I imagine it’s just a case of "this is how the source ordered things. God help us if we change even anything at all to account for a completely different medium and presentation style. That would be bad." Sigh.

Preview:

More sparkling men.

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3 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • TEd says:
    April 19, 2012 at 6:59 am

    thank the lord this is only 12 episodes

    • Andmeuths says:
      April 19, 2012 at 11:54 pm

      Hmm, keep in mind that the source material, the manga is 140 chapters long and counting. Now, if it isn’t K-on or Lucky Star quality Comedy, nor Haruhi level uniqueness, how is this possible?

      Readers of the manga are instead bemoaning of the fact that the adaptation is so short that it’s going to give a completely inaccurate impression of Medaka Box.

      Mind you, Medaka Box will undergo a genre shift, though it appears that the anime will only hit the edges of it.

      IF, the adaptation remains faithful. The worse case scenario will be an anime original plot towards the end, that desperately avoids the reckoning of the genre shift.

  • Embok says:
    April 19, 2012 at 9:19 am

    I’m pretty sure this show’s quality is directly related with how much screentime light blue hair gets in an episode. There’s probably also a negative relation with Medaka’s screentime but since she’ll never go away that doesn’t mean much.