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Uh. This was an experience.

Edit: Ugh. How did I turn Innocent into Empty? The show… it does things to your mind.

Impressions:

I’m really not sure what to make of this. There are so so so many characters and it spends barely even a moment’s focus on most of them… and half of the time, that focus is only long enough for them to say one line and then show a panty shot or a naked shot of their breasts bouncing. The initial segment in particular of an entire herd of bouncy girls mugging some kid to press their breasts against him was… unfortunate? It got a lot better after that, but every other shot still seemed to be coming from in-between some random girl’s thighs and panties figured heavily into just about everything. The character skipping also got particularly bad at the end when it just showed a montage naming about 10 different characters in turn with a brief pan-over. I literally have no idea what that was trying to do.

I will say that the show looks quite good visually and has a lot of energy. The main issue is that I have absolutely no idea what it’s doing with it, so it’s kind of like getting a four year old hopped up on Red Bull and Vodka and then telling him to spin in a circle. Not that I’ve ever done that. At least… more than once. But it’s the same kind of chaos. Well, it also veers towards really pretentious at times, which doesn’t fit its magnetic draw to T&A in the slightest. The middle segment in the cafe was probably the most amusing of the lot, which was probably also helped since it had the most focus and the characters all had more than 30 seconds of screen time.

So, uh… yeah. I have no idea. Aside from being unable to go 30 seconds without a panty shot, the visual direction isn’t bad, but the story direction and writing is literally all over the place in not a particularly good way. It’s built as much more of a comedy than I expected, but instead of the characters and situation having ADHD ala Milky Holmes, it’s the staff. It might be able to carry itself on sheer energy alone, but there are just as many remarkably godawful parts that made my eyes roll back far enough in my head to see the aneurysm building as there were clever parts. I really don’t even know what else to say about it. I don’t even want to think about the ED (OP?) either. That makes even less sense.

Preview:

WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU, SHOW?