#tetsuno

❤ ❤ ❤  Happy Valentine`s Day!!!  ❤ ❤ ❤

Can you feel the love? Which one are you? //kicked

*Kabedon- (for those who are curious~)  "Kabe" means "wall" while "don" is a sound effect for hitting something. That is a situation in which a character slams his hand against the wall, pinning another person against it. (There`s a different type for it, but we`ll stick with this cliche one~ XD)

Because I obviously don`t have anything else Valentine`s related to give... I might as well throw in some laughs- because I sure was grinning the whole time I was working on this aHA~ Did I miss any ships? I think these are the major ones anyways sooooo ehehe... 

Ps. Please don`t ask me what Sakuya, Mikuni, or Belkia are doing. I don`t know either  ┐(￣∀￣)┌ pffft

I’m a big fan of the ironic watch and anime seems to always deliver to me in that regard, so when I saw this lineup of shows for Spring 2017 I saw an ironic watcher’s paradise. This is a season with enough cute girls anime to fill a Federal Prison, and I was stoked to see what stupid scenarios anime had cooked up this time. However, if there is one thing that keeps surprising me, its cute girl anime. As a game designer I loved New Game and Stella no Mahou for taking an extremely lighthearted approach to the industry. I think a love for cute things is just naturally engraved in the human psyche no matter if you’re a pessimistic shit like me or not, but I still would classify these shows as idol entertainment without much to bring in terms of anything classically considered “good” besides a few jokes. This season I’ve literally only watched Urara and Interview with Monster Girls and BOTH showed me something I would definitely critically call good and if you read me singing Urara’s praises, we this show is even better and here’s why.

First off, is the shows great world building. I managed to get through 3 whole episodes of Monster Musume before rethinking my life, but one thing that show did have which I’ve always wanted back is this idea that monsters are living normal lives and that they face discrimination. This show seems to focus on that extensively. The Dullahan, Machi, quickly gains friends in her new school but quickly releases that people are only talking to her because she is a demi and that they’re actually trying to be TOO nice to her. Best girl, Hikari, points this out and later befriends Machi in a great scene where she brings up how her head is separate from her body and the entire class gasps. With very simple dialogue, you get the entire story about how she was treated as “special” when she really didn’t want to be. There is even mention of demi’s getting government benefits and I’m sure that will be brought up later. I love this theme, but it wouldn’t be as good if it wasn’t executed as well as it is. 

The second part of world building that this show excels on is thinking extensively about the different demis and how they function. This is core to show as the whole reason the main character interviews them is to find out these things. By teasing this well thought out world in front of us, it makes the audience increasingly curious about the various aspects of demi’s lives and this curiosity is mirrored by the protagonist. This character also sets the stage for the masterful delivery of exposition, in the show’s titular interviews. However, what makes these scenes amazing is how the demi, in this case Hikari, frames all her answers around herself. She talks about how being a vampire affects her, and in doing so talks about what a vampire is and hints at how it affects others. Therefore, the interviews serve not only to develop the world but also to develop the characters. A well thought out world is great, but if you’ve got no good characters to inhabit it, it will still fail.

So lets talk about the characters because the ones we’ve met are some of the best characters I’ve seen in cute girls anime. At first they seem like stereotypes of the genre: the overexcited girl, the shy polite girl, and the reserved girl, but in just the first episode we’ve already gotten to see more dimensions to Hikari’s personality than most cute girls anime ever produce. Mainly, I’m talking about how she talks about how she’s never been in love. While not a dramatic character moment, it does show that the writers do consider not only multiple angles to their character’s personality, but also that they understand these are young girls. So many anime don’t do this justice at all. 

That brings me to the relationship she has with her teacher, the main character. Now, this had the potential to go horribly wrong. Anime doesn’t really have a good track record with teachers and young girls, and it is totally possible this could have been inappropriate. While the anime hints at this from Hikari’s side, from the teacher’s side I get more of an Assassination classroom vibe in that it really can correctly characterize a teacher who loves his students because they are his students. When Hikari is talking about her love, Tetsuno eggs her on and asks a question about her love life. Instead of making a joke about how weird wacky and perverted he is directly after, we get an inner monologue of him laughing to himself in an endearing way. Hikari still wants to frame him as a pervy old man, but us as the audience know he really isn’t. The show has also set up a vary obvious romantic interest for Tetsuno in the new math teacher at the school. This draws the audience’s attentions away from a possible student relationship.

So that’s all I can really talk about for this show at the moment. The animation looked good and to be honest they could have even gotten away with less of it considering most of the show is dialogue. The art style is generic, but I do like Tetsuno’s face and I think it portrays a lot about his characters. I still don’t know what those ear-like things on Hikari’s head are.

This show is great in that I think it appeals to so many people. Casual fans of cute girls anime have plenty of cute, and hardcore fans have good characters and story. I would highly recommend this show to anyone, especially if you’re interested in anime that have deep world building. This show will thrive on those who love to see well released ideas become reality. Watch it!

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