Forum - View topicEP. REVIEW: Miss Kuroitsu From the Monster Development Department
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meiam
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Personally I don't care about tokusatsu but I'm enjoying the show because it's paradoxically one of the few show that's actually about regular workplace antic (after the major disappointment that was "my sempai is annoying" which almost immediately ditched its workplace setting for what was essentially a high school rom-com). I quite liked the presentation were it was clear she was just winging it and the multi department project where every department had their semi legit point.
Episode 2 had a really strange moment though, where they meet the other team and its just a voice over, with a character we've never meet doing narration before we even see him. It felt like that section was supposed to be much longer but they ran out of time and had to cut it short. |
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omnistry
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Megistus is very nice, very evil.
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Covnam
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So far these two episodes have been interesting, but not as funny as I would have hoped for.
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Picky33
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I haven't watched a Tokusatsu anime since Samurai Flamenco and i haven't watched a live action since Power Rangers. but what turned me on to the series was learning about all the local "Hero's" that the show uses. I enjoy animes that teach me stuff. i equate the humor of the series to something closer to a Dilbert comic strip with the office/ bureaucracy jokes and the slights on Japanese culture mixed in.
I'll give it a couple more episodes, but so far i haven't been particularly bored of the series so i will probably watch the whole thing. |
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Beltane70
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One of the things that I really like about the series so far is how the so-called evil organization actually cares about its employees! My favorite line from the second episode is when Lord Megistus tells Miss Kuroitsu, "There is nothing more shameful than management resting before a worker.". I wish that my company had an attitude like that!
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TexZero
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Magical girls with the power of love and friendship getting absolutely blasted by a thunder chicken with the power of Gun is all i really needed in life.
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reaslin
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It seems I found this episode, especially the second half, more enjoyable than the reviewer. For example, I found humour in the depiction of magical girls as hungry wolves attacking a monster who is innocently enjoying a cup of coffee. Or the dignified demeanor of Cannon, who is, after all, literally a huge chicken. And the ending was kind of sweet.
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Picky33
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the only thing that I didn't like about this weeks ep was the lack of local hero's the first 2 ep jam packed them, this ep had 1.
I also couldn't tell if one of the magical girls was really boy who transformed into a girl or a more tomboyish girl who gained curves. |
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Zefram
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Unfortunately for this you have to know japanese pretty well. Because while subtitles did refer to that magical girl as a girl before her transformation, there might have been some nuanced japanese that wasn't translated well. |
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Andrew Cunningham
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According to the official site, Yuto is a male character who turns into a magical girl. |
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Picky33
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Interesting...., thanks both of you this week was super market super hero's. I liked the scene after the credits. |
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Aerdra
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Episode 4
07:54 - Reference to la Bête du Gévaudan. Another anime this season features this in detail.
I think we should consider this from the Japanese perspective. The honorific -chan, while somewhat feminine, doesn't necessarily denote gender like the English pronoun she. When a person addresses another using -chan, it indicates that the speaker thinks the addressee is cute, and/or their relationship is close. As the reviewer mentioned, Akashic is like a spoiled brat, and I prefer to enjoy the overall antics she brings than focus on the details. (Oh, don't forget, it was her fault that Wolf turned out this way in the first place.) |
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kgw
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I think this series is very funny. It's a pity almost nobody is watching it.
But then again, it's Japanese humour + tokusatsu series, not the most favourite genres for Western audiences. |
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dm
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How do you know how many people are watching it? This series is tons of fun, but I'm not sure how much discussion it prompts. Episode five: this series seems a little schizophrenic. On the one hand, you have praise for enlightened business practices, like concern for employee work/life balance, actually paying overtime vs wage theft (I loved the bit spoiler[about leaving by secret tunnels to avoid ruining the corporation's image]). On the other hand you have .... parodies of sexual harassment that then turn the viewer's expectations on their head. Does anyone know what the tea-leaf logo means (Kuromitsu-san's hair decoration, the tea-leaf logo on the beleaguered gig-economy girl's "Book-On" costume) in this series? |
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meiam
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The first half was funnier in theory than in practice, great setup but I feel like the Kuroitsu segments where cut short and the wolf side was the same joke twice (and not that funny of a joke anyway). Plus its pretty awkward that they sent Wolf to meet the dude who is known to sexually assault monster...
Second half had some weird edit, like a bunch of people worked on it without really knowing what the other were doing, some situation really didn't follow each other well. |
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