Eromanga Sensei #01 — Wet Exposition Dreams

April 8th, 2017

 

Did everyone in Japan who knows how to write boycott this season?

Impressions:

This starts out fantastically, having a sack of garbage morosely narrate about his life and flash back to the first time he got a boner from his step sister. Apparently it was a wet dream. He then proceeds to narrate to nobody but the gnomes living in his spine, eating his brain stem about his own life and times. That would set a particularly low bar going forward, and it had a hard time even clearing that. Everybody's an otaku superstar. The 'hilarious' dialogue, on the extremely EXTREMELY rare times when it stops being entirely exposition is exchanges like one of them yells that the other is an idiot, and then the other says that the first is the idiot. 

It was a struggle to survive the whole twenty minutes. I guess it has marginally more life than some of the amazingly atrocious things earlier in the week, but all the characters are all of the godawful light novel incest variety, wanting to bone each other, but being too insecure to do anything more than squirm their thighs as their genitals make gurgling noises, while also being superstars of every possible otaku medium. This might be even worse than schlock like OreImo because it doesn't even have a hint of any kind of conflict brewing to drive an iota of drama or any kind of comedy, so one has to ask what the everloving god is the pull here? An absurdly lionized not-cutsey not-shut-in and her not-romance with her not-brother? The shots from above the bed as she squirms, squeals, and spreads her legs on it? Yeah, got it. 

 

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3 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • LUNI_TUNZ says:
    April 8, 2017 at 3:54 pm

    The parts when he kept knocking on the door, trying to coax his sister out the room sure made me think “Boy, I sure wish I was watching Frozen right now?”

  • Prinny says:
    April 8, 2017 at 11:25 pm

    Surely Orson Welles would be rolling in his grave for missing this masterpiece of Japanese Animation. In my write up I pretty much got the assumption that Eromanga-Sensei was just a kid dealing with his really autistic sister who suffers from agoraphobia. And like the two of them jointly write porn.

    I’ve got my 10/10 on MAL ready to go.

  • The Phantom says:
    April 9, 2017 at 5:46 pm

    Oreimo surely was atrocious, but compared to this, it was a Nobel of literature, my gad this could not be more bland even if it tried it.