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Shelf Life - Hikari Un-Go

I liked Un-Go too. I'll even be cosplaying Inga (little boy version) at a convention soon.

Sailor S wrote:

I was kinda hoping that with The Stream column that streams wouldn't be featured in this one anymore, seeing as you can't really put streams on a shelf. But, I guess there's only so much time in the week, and if you're watching streams, that's just that much less time to watch physical media, so it's here to stay whether I agree with it or not.

I've gathered that The Stream is a column that follows shows as they're airing, and in in Shelf Life it's to review either the whole think or large chunks of it at once.

whereas Princess Resurrection is a clever (if somewhat overly long) send-up of slasher movie tropes. Sometimes, I don't understand Erin's tastes... But hey, to each their own, I suppose

So yeah, if a show is really really bad, then it reaches some level of 'so bad it's decent' for Erin. Whereas if shows don't quite reach that level of terribleness, but that she has some issues over a portion of the content, then that's most likely going to teeter over into flushable territory.

Second, I had moral problems with the second episode. Two of the girls, Henrietta and Rico, spend time with their handlers, Jose and Jean, on vacation, going to the beach and eating a nice dinner out. Jose makes Henrietta dress in clothes formerly owned by his dead sister in order to mess with his brother, Jean. It's all pretty dicey wank-material if you ask me.

So does the set include the hot springs OVA or not Erin? I'm curious, as that doesn't seem like something Sentai would miss (and the amount of fanservice in that episode would be a huge factor in getting a certain audience to want to buy the set). And TRSI claims that the set comes with the OVA as well.

Cause you not mentioning that at all would be very weird. Especially after your tirade on Teatrino's OVA which featured at most 2 minutes of two girls in swimsuits:

Erin wrote:

Second, I had moral problems with the second episode. Two of the girls, Henrietta and Rico, spend time with their handlers, Jose and Jean, on vacation, going to the beach and eating a nice dinner out. Jose makes Henrietta dress in clothes formerly owned by his dead sister in order to mess with his brother, Jean. It's all pretty dicey wank-material if you ask me.

Now, if you get off calling that shot "wank material" then where is the same for Akikan? When the entire 'plot' of the OVA is just watching naked girls (including Grape) bathe in an onsen?

Shouldn't that have set off even more of the squick-meter? Or is it because Akikan is overt in its fanservice where Gunslinger Girl is 100% tame that you're more likely to forgive Akikan?

Cause I'm perplexed how you can find Gunslinger Girl 'morally' wrong when it doesn't do anything to earn that other than maybe a master-slave dynamic (which I could understand). However, Akikan has that exact same dynamic made even worse because the anthropomorphized cans/girls are forced to kiss their masters if they want to continue being outside of can form. It's sickening. It's putrid. And it has 500000000% more fanservice of the loli character than anything that was in Gunslinger Girl.

So you're right. I don't get you. You don't make sense.

I think you are missing the point of ova's being done. It's to show off the characters skin for the hell of it even older series like blue seed dating back to 95 has a hot-spring ova with all of the female characters. I see you don't like loli but you don't have to take it to that much of an extreme. Reviews are only based on opinions of your feelings for a said product maybe like me it's a guilty pleasure series for the said person.

neocloud9 wrote:

I liked Un-Go too. I'll even be cosplaying Inga (little boy version) at a convention soon.

That's pretty awesome! Are you going to ask people one question each?

Akikan has that exact same dynamic made even worse because the anthropomorphized cans/girls are forced to kiss their masters if they want to continue being outside of can form. It's sickening. It's putrid.

Apollo-kun wrote:

But seriously, I don't understand how Akikan is rental worthy when it's a bunch of otaku pandering, whereas Princess Resurrection is a clever (if somewhat overly long) send-up of slasher movie tropes. Sometimes, I don't understand Erin's tastes... But hey, to each their own, I suppose

I think I've kind of figured it out. If it's really really bad like Akikan is, then Erin can find some sort of enjoyment out of it. This isn't the first pile of excrement that she has stamped a 'rental' on, and it certainly won't be the last. And yes, when a great studio like Brains Base, who did Durarara, Kurenai, Mawaru Penguindrum, Kamichu, Baccano, Natsume Yuujinchou, etc. puts in the absolute bottom-of-the-barrel animation/art, then I think it's pretty safe to say that even the studio didn't even enjoy working on the show.

So yeah, if a show is really really bad, then it reaches some level of 'so bad it's decent' for Erin. Whereas if shows don't quite reach that level of terribleness, but that she has some issues over a portion of the content, then that's most likely going to teeter over into flushable territory. This is a show about anthropomorphized soda/drink cans that requires the protagonist to kiss them so that they can maintain a certain level of CO2. Girls are required to kiss the protagonist if they want to continue their existence. I don't know, that seems kind of... wrong to me.

But I just have to facepalm that Akikan received higher accolades from her than Gunslinger Girl. Maybe Gunslinger Girl should not have dealt with all those moral quandaries and should have been some generic harem show about girls as anthropomorphized guns. Hey wait, that plot sounds similar. Oh yeah! It's actually happening in the spring with the Xebec adaptation of the Upotte!! manga. Can't wait to see another 'so bad it's decent' slapped onto that.

Oh, and did Sentai's set not include the hot springs OVA? I doubt you could miss Grape's sexualization there. But maybe if she was just in a swimsuit on the beach instead of naked in an onsen then Erin would have spend 2 paragraphs about the definition of lolicon like she did for a certain other show's OVA.

Apollo-kun wrote:

neocloud9 wrote: I liked Un-Go too. I'll even be cosplaying Inga (little boy version) at a convention soon. Oooh, if it's Momocon (judging by your location) I'll keep my eye out! Need to see more cosplay from this series!

Yep! I'd cosplay the female version, but sadly I am neither 7 feet tall nor a D-cup. Alas.

I'll be there with my little brother (who already towers over me) who may or may not be cosplaying as TK from Angel Beats.

So does the set include the hot springs OVA or not Erin?

Shouldn't that have set off even more of the squick-meter? Or is it because Akikan is overt in its fanservice where Gunslinger Girl is 100% tame that you're more likely to forgive Akikan?

Cause I'm perplexed how you can find Gunslinger Girl 'morally' wrong when it doesn't do anything to earn that other than maybe a master-slave dynamic (which I could understand). However, Akikan has that exact same dynamic made even worse because the anthropomorphized cans/girls are forced to kiss their masters if they want to continue being outside of can form. It's sickening. It's putrid. And it has 500000000% more fanservice of the loli character than anything that was in Gunslinger Girl.

So you're right. I don't get you. You don't make sense.

Chobits, Popotan, and Gunslinger Girls all made me angry on a moral level (Chobits less than the other two).