Rise Up! Animal Road #01 — Sniffing Butts

October 2nd, 2019

 

I don't think the rule of three means having only three jokes.

Impressions:

Here we have a show that's trying to get by on three jokes, and the worst part is that it doesn't even go back and forth between them. The first ten minutes are all "I am a pro wrestler," and most of the rest of the episode is sexually harassing animal-people/animals. Well, I suppose that there's also quite a bit of shouting, because, yeah, you can't have a drooling man with pastel flowers blooming without also shouting that they have an animal tail and/or ears. The third joke is the closest the show comes to a punchline. The protagonist reiterates the current situation, and the wolf girl gives a flat straight-man response saying that's wrong. I feel that's notable just because it's something that doesn't involve shouting.

It really can't be understated how much random shouting there is. They go off to fight a pack of cerberuses, and what's the first thing that gets shouted upon finding them? "They have three heads!" Then someone repeats that. I would be harsher on that segment, but it's also the only part of the episode that was really animated, even with all the speedlines. It also had a particularly unfortunate series of shots with the protagonist's face buried in a dog's butt, which was only incidental to what the joke was supposed to be; that he powerbombed a dog. It just… lingered, and kept lingering.

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2 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • dp says:

    On the plus side, with three jokes, it had two more jokes than Overly Cautious Hero, which had just one…

  • ark noir says:

    This was crap. Not of it was cohesive. The story the setting nor the werstling. I gave it 2 stars using the Metzler star system.

    In other news, The bananya anime is pure fire. Anime of the year for me. 3 mins of class.