Three Something Three Something Elses #01 — Goddamn, I Love Bread
April 10th, 2016
And spending the entire animation budget in the opening!
Impressions:
The opening promised high energy wacky shenanigans, cat stampedes, and gigantic space cats, so whoever created it clearly has not watched the rest of the show. There's more going on, visually, comically, and animation-y in the OP than in the entire rest of the episode. I will say this though, it's certainly busily animated at the start. You can really tell that the animators did the first minute or so while high off their balls on a mixture of cocaine and ecstasy. Unfortunately, they quickly crashed and the rest of the episode goes right into "girls being friends because girls are so friends." About 75% of the episode is spent watching them eat lunch. There's also some guy hanging around who pops out of bushes to scream at them, so it's almost closer to a horror show than a comedy.
What it's not is funny. You see, the main character talks like a rich girl, but she's awkward and eats cheap bread scraps like a peasant. That, and things like "girl likes cats", or "girl says that main character talks like a rich girl" would comprise most of the jokes in the episode. She spends the entire thing whinging on about friends while the other two pretty much just smile and nod because they're already such good natured friends because they saw each other eating bread that one time or something. Then they started talking about what kind of cheese they like and my brain basically shut down. The downward spiral continued from there into "her cooking is terrible, but friends" and "let's all go take a bath together."
Maybe if the whole thing had the energy it showed in the opening or the start, it could at least carry itself on that, and I think it does the stupid-cute thing a little better than, say, Bakuon, but it also doesn't have the globular rude tits bursting out of skintight racing suits. Give the edge to whichever.
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I’d say this series is notable because it has multiple dudes (with lines!) in-universe, but I’d put better at even odds most of their scenes are written out.
You need more than three girls to carry one of these series though, so that would be a bad idea.