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Well, at least it didn’t give me cancer.

New Season Disclaimer:

I’ll make a post for almost all new series (barring sequels) with a wrap-up and bullet point opinion of each once the premier week is over. Remember that these are just my kneejerk reactions to the first 20 minutes of shows, many of which in genres that I don’t even particularly like, but I do believe in giving every new series at least an episode to interest me.

Impressions:

Well, I was all ready and set to praise Xebec for only spending five minutes on handjobs and oral fixation (unless you want to make a ‘balls touching‘ joke), but then they had to go and make boob grab and blowjob jokes in the preview for next week’s episode, so screw that noise. I didn’t like the little bit of the OVA for this, and handing it off to Xebec certainly hasn’t improved the art and animation, which ranges from atrocious and mediocre. The jokes are so painfully drawn out and predictible that it renders them completely painful to see in motion. If they had sped everything up twice as fast, it’d be a lot more manageable, but when you constantly fill the time between setup and payoff by making ‘mature’ looking faces to delay the obvious punchline, even the dullest members of the audience reach the punchline before the show does. That air guitar segment also droned on and on and on without end. We get it, they’re playing with brooms and pretending that they’re guitars. I did not need to watch that for two straight minutes.

Uh… I have nothing else to say. This was easily the least funny comedy of the new season, and only marginally above Sunred in production values… and Sunred was probably made in Flash by two guys in their mom’s basement. Bleh.

Class 5-2 OP

Preview:

Bad Xebec! BAD XEBEC!