Love Stage!! #01 — Stuffed Animal Sex

July 9th, 2014

  

I’m probably more surprised than you.

Impressions:

I had to go back and check the staffing for this show, but to my shock, Silver Link still has nothing to do with it. There’s all the usual Silver Link things, playing with the most pastel backgrounds, random polka dots, people dancing around in the background with signs and silly faces… But this is the same director who’s been crapping out zero budget garbage for JC Staff (mostly Bakuman) for the last half decade after a couple successes with Honey and Clover and Nodame. Apparently the stars aligned and someone somewhere decided that this would be getting extra attention, effort, and a budget far beyond other shows of its ilk. And then someone decided for an eyecatch to have two stuffed animals having sex doggy style.

This is a show of many, many confusing questions, the least of which involves the really, really half-assed job they did drawing a female and then calling it a male, although I guess that’s really nothing new. Leaving aside the bugbear of angular faces, the direction’s expressive, production’s solid, exposition’s not minimal but nowhere near as bad as most shows and the episode keeps moving steadily forward with a lot of quick incidental gags instead of calling the shouting or silly faces the punchline iteslf, and it gives a quick once over of a relatively large cast incidental to the main plot thrust of getting Anxiety Attack Girl Boy back into a dress and reunited with his one true love.

I guess I’m just kind of surprised at how decently executed this was on just about every front. Well, aside from the plushy sex eyecatch, but even that’s going to be more of a lasting impression than many shows so far have left. 

Next Episode:

Angering traditional marriage proponents.

Posted in Anime | 11 Comments »

11 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • The Phantom says:

    /Rant:
    Looks like a show for gays, I don’t care about how much society has “progressed”, but this is not, and it will never be normal for me.

    • Levi says:

      Well then if your gonna say things like that…then your homophobic DX just so you know…I happen to be a guy, who is dating someone who happens to love yaoi and I take an intrest in it cuz thats what she likes and I’m not going to judge ^^
      BTW I happen to watch both yuri and yaoi, so if your gonig to criticize then don’t bother watching in the first place DX

    • algorithm says:

      You mean a show for girls.

    • Anonymous says:

      Yaoi is made for girls by girls, japan still doesn’t acknowledge homosexuals. Also, you’re homophobic and that comment isn’t really relevant to anything here.

      • aklik says:

        The guy said nothing about this show being good or bad…
        Also, you’re normalphobic and that comment isn’t really relevant to anything here.

    • Senpai says:

      You ignorant piece of trash, don’t you realize this is not created for gay men? Is way too offensive to both the trans and gay communities. This show is made by girls, for girls who just care about fetishizing gay men. LEARN your anime you failure of weeaboo

      • aklik says:

        you ignorant piece of fascistic trash, the guy just said that he don’t like it, and never will…
        he said nothing about it being good or bad!
        why so much hate and agression…
        just die…

  • algorithm says:

    It was barely more than a premise for yaoi porn that replaced all the sex scenes with grating humor. The brother sounded needlessly faggy. Nice MILF though. Also that stache.

  • jingoi says:

    “stuffed animal sex”
    a certain football head baby loves that!…..yeah, I know that was bad, I’ll go off myself now…./jk! (sometimes I can’t resist but I hate making family guy jokes)

    Anyway not for me, I’m very much a tits n’ skirt chaser, enjoy it yaoi lovers, I have zero problem with gay marriage (but I think marriage is stupid anyway since I believe most couples end up getting a divorce)