Fuuka #01 — Manic Pixie Girlfriend

January 6th, 2017

I'd say we're getting the especially repugnant out of the way, but there are still multiple idol shows left.

Impressions:

This differentiates itself from that godawful show yesterday by adding a sloppy blowjob to idols and having somewhat more of the girls slobbering over the sack of potato's potato be his family. Oh, and I guess the female lead has anime-colored hair, in case you couldn't tell that she was unlike everyone else and super special. Jesus H Christ, Japan. Do you think it's sentimental or something when your protagonist is a sack of crap who leers at women's underwear? Oh, he stammered because he couldn't defend that he was doing what she accused him of, but not EVERYTHING he accused her of, so let's just have her attack him. 'Misunderstandings' which aren't actually misunderstandings at all and random assault are pretty great, yeah? Why are you so attached to this trope where the male lead keeps sighing to himself in exasperation about having to deal with all these women showering him with attention and flashing their underwear and cleavage at him? What is so horrendous about a male character having a personality? I refuse to believe it's any form of self-insertion crap, because that is patently bull.

In any case, this was a particularly unfortunate two episode intro, and I could barely be assed to suffer through the first. I flipped through the second, and it seemed slightly more focused on the other part of the 'romantic' triangle, his super star idol childhood friend who's madly in love with him for absolutely no reason. He probably did one nice thing for her that one time, so now she owes him her heart and soul. Get bent, writers. If you want to write romance, start with learning how to write characters. Then we can move on to the advance course, "having a goddamned plot."

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3 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • Sol says:

    Should be renamed Fuckhead, to reflect anyone who can stomach the writing.

  • The Phantom says:

    I saw a blue haired girl good at athletics and being begged to join the track team and thought Suzuka!. But then yea the OP spoiled the plot as some kind of love triangle and singing and idols I was like humm “White Album”? no please go back to “Suzuka”.

    By second episode this was implied to be a White Album rip off, disappointing, I wanted Suzuka she even appeared in the phone call (Fuuka’s Mom) damn, no, I abhor White Album, I am so out of this.

  • PP2 says:

    How to get away with murder in Japan: Jump on top of a guy, stab him, say he was molesting you and it was all self-defense.