Bakuon!! #02 — Brought To You By Melodrama
April 11th, 2016
Why not jam in some weighty nonsense?
I did mean to cover the 12 Years Old thing in the morning, but I was having computer issues (which continued into the afternoon, but seem resolved) but I don't really have much more to say about it. It was a much slower episode, but the relationship between the other pair still formed, meaning it's still moving fourteen times faster than, say Snow White With the Red Hair. It's still a dramedy about preteens fumbling around relationships though. More palatable to the brain than supposed adults and eighteen year olds doing the same at nowhere near the pace nor the maturity, but still not something I can particularly get into.
Impressions:
I wasn't sure whether or not to skip this episode after the truly, truly godawful beginning, but I decided that if I suffered, I might as well spread that around. Instead of starting out with imbeciles, and being focused on how stupid everyone was, this episode wallowed in melodrama like they had pulled in Okada to do the guest writing. And then the friendship power was so very very much because one imbecile said a motorcycle was cool. The only thing approaching a joke was some idiotic wordplay with the Tits one's name, turned into a nonsequitur. That's right, ten minutes to set up a nonsequitur. It probably would have worked better if it had just been complete nonsense to begin with.
Then for the second half, they introduced a new character. This one is "bikes equal being a rebel… but she's actually the opposite!" Cue laugh track, rim shot, and a bullet through my temple. What a completely different joke from the original one's "She thinks she's grown up… but she's actually the opposite!" This would be followed by "girls do their best to accomplish a completely trivial task but succeed in doing so only because of the power of friendship helping them overcome their insecurity." I find it hard to even call this episode primarily a comedy, just hamhanded drama involving a pack of mental invalids in between bizarre fanservice. At least the awkward puberty crowd probably wouldn't choke to death if they tried to walk and chew gum at the same time.
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I generally enjoy what you say about anime even if I disagree with it. But I really have a problem there. You realize that there is no melodrama at all in this episode? It’s just a build-up to the joke about the father being alive with a kick-ass bike thanks to the letter written by his daughter and that he is kind of an asshole.
Anyway I found this episode fun, the second half is not really good but the first part was great and the manufacturer war between them is hilarious (and probably not that far from reality).