Twin Tails #01 — More Pedophile Lizardmen
October 9th, 2014
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The silurians need a better PR agent.
This is the last of the new things for the day, so I’m taking a break for an hour or two before I start skimming through Psycho Pass, Gundam, Amagi, and Bookseller thingy and figure out which (if any) intrigue me enough to continue. I’m… not too wild about Thursdays so far at the moment.Â
Impressions:
Not shocking, but you wouldn’t want to play a drinking game with this and the phrase “twin tails.” At some point though (in this case, about 60 seconds in), harping on about a hair style has long since passed overplaying the twin tail schtick for humor and has gone to a fairly desperate attempt to create a joke out of nothing and then stretch that joke to hell and back. We’re operating on more or less the same rules as Daimidaler used for being horny, except that it’s “having twin tails, in their heaaaaarts” and with just… guys in black and lizards instead of penguins and mecha with erections. So no, the humor’s not exactly what I’d call strong. Thankfully, it just did the yelling without the visual stingers and gong sound effects, so it was only annoying instead of grating. That’s… a step up from most of the comedies this season I suppose.
Production’s not great either. The maids ‘running’ up by skimming across the ground was a particularly amusing moment of awfulness that sticks out, but it wasn’t exactly flexing any muscles during the action scene either. As parody of sentai goes, I’ve seen worse. The gimmick’s dumb and to their credit, they seem to understand that, but they’re not executing from their either. It needed to be a lot more balls to the wall and over the top with it. It’s going through the parody motions, and has some ideas, but the joke was kind of already played out by the end of the OP and it didn’t build much on it after that. No Nurse Witch Komugi fighting 2ch made flesh is this. Or even Super Robo Girls to not date myself quite so much.
It’s surprisingly inoffensive, I guess, considering these kinds of things are usually rife with bad T&A, but the production’s kind of weak and the jokes are already starting to grate. It didn’t bore me quite as much as some of the other ‘comedies’ this season so far, but still far too few jokes, not very good ones, and stretched out far too long.
Next Episode:
Boobs.
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This is giving Kore wa Zombie a run for its money on the absurd premise category.