Aquarion EVOL #05 — Equal Opportunity Sexual Frustration

January 29th, 2012

 

I think they’re just going to create a world of masochists.

Impressions:

Not the most eventful episode and I’m sure all these explanations/flashbacks about forbidden love and past relationships would be a lot more meaningful if I had any clue at all about the first series, but when they’ve got a little french girl teaming up with a pirate to put what basically amounted to chastity belts armbands on a bunch of students to detect and punish them whenever they started to get aroused and then match them all up and force them out on the town together, I’m not sure that the backstory really has too much meaning. Feel free to make your own joke about Japan’s population growth issues now. For me, it’s all just in one ear and out the other with a big ol’ "DESTINY" marker on it.

I still feel terrible for Bag-Girl, even moreso when she has to be paired up with Zessica’s breasts in the pan-over of everybody’s reactions. That’s just rubbing things in. The blushing Indian girl also couldn’t seem to go five minutes without imagining Shrade and Cayenne locked in a loving embrace of man. Meanwhile, there’s Amata, getting his wing-foot boner constantly on his date with jealous Zess and Mikono and getting sniped in the butt constantly to keep him ‘calm.’ Frankly, I think it’s just training him to associate ass injuries with arousal. That only leads to the Indian girl’s fantasies.

Then Mikono storms off to a very platonic view of the sunset where there’s a guy waiting… lurking… ready to play a violin the moment anybody shows up. Meanwhile, Red (I really need to start paying attention to names here) has been storming through the city, smelling every woman he can get his hands on until he finally finds her, and the cliffhanger at the end is that he licks her, which for some reason, knocks her unconscious and makes all the sensors back at Teen Hormone Monitoring HQ go berserk. And here I was worried that donut-pirate would be the strangest thing in the episode. That’s a bullet dodged.

Preview:

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6 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • sage says:
    January 29, 2012 at 12:28 pm

    Come back. I miss you.

  • Nan says:
    January 29, 2012 at 12:58 pm

    I’m just happy they didn’t put the dot (bindi) on the Indian girl’s forehead. If you didn’t know, that means that they’re married.

    Makes series where they don’t do the research kinda awkward once you know that. Also makes anthropologists cry.

  • Chen says:
    January 29, 2012 at 3:42 pm

    Every time I read your impressions of this show, it sounds like the most mental but wholly entertaining show. This all better happen in animated form! I’m going to be disappointed if it doesn’t end up exactly like your insane descriptions. I know your writing shtick all too well.

  • Anonymous says:
    January 29, 2012 at 8:30 pm

    Needs more Zen/Gen wisdom.

  • The Phantom says:
    January 29, 2012 at 11:23 pm

    This was so boring without mecha fights, those horrible male/female lead are absurdly boring, there is no chemestry, no hook, no nothing, just a pair of imbeciles in the most contrived setting ever.

    Everything about this show is just ridiculous, the whole love if forbidden crap, the wall dividing males and females, the super robots powered by love and lets not forget the fist attack that circled earth.

    From now on, Im fast forwarding every single episode until the action begins, the rest is just not worth it.