Senran Kagura #01 — Things to Stick in Your Mouth
January 6th, 2013
Don’t we have anything else phallic to fellate?
Impressions:
At least someone in Japan seems to understand the concept of a hook. Sure, it wasn’t the most impressive sequence and almost the first thing after the OP was her shoving phallic food into her mouth before squealing about a seeing a giant phallic tower, but at least they were putting in a little effort. The obsession with futomaki in this show is a little disturbing though, especially when they start feeding it to their male teacher and he does the whole brushing his hair out of his eyes with a pink, fluffy background to slurp at it.
This is a show that could really stand to have both a bigger budget and a better director. While there’s a fair amount of action through it, none of it is done really all that well, and the blazing light flare stills that they like to use make them often… well, blinding. It’s not usually embarrassing bad, mind you, just generally short and poorly framed so it’s more chaotic and hard to follow than actually cool. Just a wider angle would help immensely. The narrator could also stand to shut up. Magical transforming ninjas are not something that benefits from attempting to explain. At least they don’t stop the show when he begins though. He just starts unnecessarily explaining random ninja crap over it.
Not that bad a start overall though. It’s vapid as hell in just about every way, but at least it’s trying to be flashy in between that and breezes over/past the characters fast enough for them to not be obnoxious. Given the OP, I’m not sure how long that’ll last though, and I don’t expect the budget here to hold out all that long either, but maybe they can get things together into one impressive sequence per episode or two in the future instead of three more mediocre and short ones.
Preview:
Mounting attacks.
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a series made out of a game about jiggly ninja girls fighting and trashing eachother’s clothing is not something you should look to for depth.