天下制覇

This is all kinds of wrong, and yet… strangely right.

I feel like some education should be required here to head off any stupidity. The term Mitsudomoe has nothing to do with ‘moe.’ It’s a shinto term referring to the eternal conflict between the three forces of man, heaven, and earth.

Impressions:

I think to fully understand this show, you have to at least view the opening gag.

This was off-the-walls bizarre, but extremely well made and mostly hilarious throughout. Only mostly because Sans Testiclés’ explanation and playing of the game (whose name escapes me) at the start was lame and drawn out to hell and back. As I mentioned before, this has the same staff as Minami-ke and it shows. You can already see the huge cast of side characters in the background of the episode and OP even without them saying more than a line or two, and even beyond that, it was divided into three separate portions again; the introduction game for the numbered Marui sisters, them deciding to hook up whose-his-face with the ‘hot’ nurse by mangling his penis so she’ll be forced to look at it (sex to follow, of course), and then the times and troubles of Nipple the Hamster. It’s a rough life when you’re a hamster… named Nipple.

The animation in the show is great, although the character models could simultaneously stand to be more detailed (faces) and less detailed (please no more camel toe… please). The music is also a very nice jazzy bit that keeps things going. I’m strangely intrigued by the kid with a 69 on his hat who seems to be at least four or five years older than the rest. Otherwise, the kids are hilarious while the teachers are just props for their jokes. I actually have already developed something of a seething hatred for the nurse. That’s got to be a new record. The humor is totally sophomoric, but they stay away from combining little girls and penises in too creepy a manner. They’re definitely treading a fine line though and it’s only a matter of time before something turns creepy.

All in all though, I thought the first episode was absolutely hilarious and extremely well made from start to finish. I fully accept and understand that there will be plenty of people turned off by the very low brow humor, but nuts to them. There are a few rough edges, but this is easily the pick of this season for me thus far.

Preview:

Nipple’s troubles continue.