This Week in Anime

Peter Grill and the Spunky Bunch

In the running for the raunchiest show of the season is Peter Grill and the Philosopher's Time. What's the latter half of the title mean? Who cares! Peter's too busy staving off the salacious of affections of every Tina, Diana, and Harriet who want a piece of him.

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Nick
Micchy, anime localization has come a long way in the past few years. These days when there's not a pandemic mucking things up we not only get subtitled releases just hours after Japan, but even dubbed episodes sometimes the same day as their sub release. And now western companies are innovating by having shows that TWIA themselves for us!

Micchy
Super huge shoutout to the translators at Sentai (Natalie Jones and Ian Fagen) who turned a moderately funny not-quite-porno into the most entertaining thing I've seen this season, seriously! That localized script is doing a LOT of heavy lifting here.

Frankly they could stand to tone it down. If they're out here churning out gold what the hell are we supposed to do? I work hard to come up with the worst ways to describe the cursed shows we cover and yet these folks are just casually tossing out the most cursed puns I've ever seen.

I consider it a chance at redemption after we missed out on the opportunity to cover the Australian release of Interspecies Reviewers a few seasons ago. Though Peter Grill doesn't hold a candle to the fungus-fucking that happens in Interspecies.

Well of course. Peter Grill & The Philosopher's Time isn't some shameless smorgasbord of fetishes, but a shameless exploration of just 1 fetish. Namely, what if you were the strongest guy evers and every girl in the world wanted to sheath your sword?

Gee I don't know Nick, what would happen?

Apparently you'd cheat on your girlfriend every 12 hours or so, going by how Petey boy here handles things.

See that's the other half of the equation. Peter himself is engaged to the 1 girl in the world who isn't chomping at the dick to let him water her field, and so every episode is an adventure in being pressured into cheating on her. So like somebody mushed Maburaho and Netsuzou Trap together. (shout out to the 3 people who remember Maburaho)

Okay yeah, Peter Grill absolutely sucks ass, BUT he also likes touching boobs so I do sympathize a little. Like screw the dude for not being upfront with his girlfriend about what he wants out of a relationship but it's also very entertaining to watch him get owned by his own inability to not touch tiddies.

To the show's...well not "Credit" but you get what I mean, it does set up an incredibly flimsy reason for why Peter can't just tell his fiance he would like to grill her shrimp on his barby - she's literally too dumb to know what sex is.

Well the excuse they give is she's been sheltered by her possessive father, which is also a dumb reason, but is even dumber when we meet the guy and he's somehow more cartoonishly evil than the dad in Mr. Boop

If guns existed in this setting he'd definitely be one of those dads who brag about having a rifle at home to scare off potential boyfriends. He has to make do with magic swords I guess.

Honestly I just don't know why they bother. Your audience is theoretically here to revel in the taboo experience of cheating, why not just own it? I mentioned NTR and you never saw that show waffling about being anything but the dubcon softcore it was. If you're going to set up in a dumpster you outta embrace it!

Yeah, but then you'd miss out on Peter being continuously owned!

Look this isn't my fetish so I'm always going to coming to this as an outsider, but I just can't figure out how you're supposed to stay ahem engaged with the material when Peter's crying over his cursed dick every 5 minutes.

Look I'm sorry if you don't find the Magic Viagra episode outrageously funny but that's where we're gonna have to disagree. Like yeah the NTR and tiddies are part of the show's appeal, but the real hook for me is how Peter's an absolute dweeb loser chump who keeps digging his own grave.

I mean it's very funny that the setup is literally "an elf hexed my dick" but then that plot line stops for a while so the show can revel in the more familiar type of noncon porn:

You've seen enough hentai to know etc etc.

It's real gross! So gross that it's almost a relief when it's followed up by the elf girl forcing Peter to bang her by threatening to make his dick explode like a Capri Sun. And if that sounds nasty let me remind you of what the actual show sounds like:

Also, thanks to the bizarre and arbitrary confluence of what counts as obscenity, it's the most actual sex the show can put on screen. Since every other scene cuts to black before Peter actually plows any fields. Even the less-censored version is just less gratuitous with the light bars. There's still a plethora of luminescent taints up in here.

Someone installed LEDs in all the girls' nipples but forgot to add an off switch, smh.

They really be out here shining stadium lights through an orc girl's legs!

Look I know some people call them headlights but girl please turn off your high beams when approaching a driver in the opposite direction.

Fact: luminescent anime boobs are responsible for 69% of all car accidents annually. It's just the truth.

Piglette doesn't know her own strength. And yes her name his Piglette. She's from the Pork Pie Kingdom. And somehow she's the character who comes the closest to having actually consenting sex in this show. Insofar as she's only slightly coaxed into it by being slipped a fuck-potion in an attempt by the evil cartoon dad to make Peter cheat.

I do like how in her post-fuck clarity she finally realizes she's tired of being pushed around in the name of politics. Yass girl, you wreck their shit!!

She's also the only character who actually halfway likes Peter? Or at least the only one I'd believe would fuck him without the prospect of getting a super powered baby out of the deal. It's not much, but it's something.

The heart-shaped pupils are how you know this is secretly a hentai.

"Secretly"?

True! Interspecies Reviewers was truly too powerful. Peter Grill can only do so much to fill its shoes.

So I guess I can recommend this show to people who are really hard up for monster girl softcore, and Monster Girl Doctor is just too chaste for them? Or at least I can recommend getting a laugh out of the subtitles because again, solid gold:

I dunno it's still kind of a coward show. It can't even give the World's Strongest Man nipples.

I mean if we're really splitting hairs it also doesn't get the inherent allure of properly-fitting bras. Like I'm sorry, I will never get why all these things have so much quadboob. Nothing's perfect I guess.

As long as it's not too exhausting a discourse farm!