Okay, that’s it. This series has completely given up any form of logic at this stage. I mean, seriously. It surpasses itself in terms of stupidity in this episode. There were plenty of moments in this episode that just made me ask… “why?!”.
A list of bullet-points of all the wtf-moments of this episode:
– Satelight: what the heck are you doing making Flora fall IN LOVE with Dan. There are five episodes left, for God’s sake. What the hell are you doing slapping on a harem at the last possible minute?!
– In this episode, Dan and Flora end up abandoning everything else in order to be able to reach Rouge’s last concert on time. In order to get through some sort of customs that are in the way, they dress up as women. Never mind the question where they got these clothes from, DAN STILL DOESN’T REALIZE THAT FLORA IS A GIRL.
– To make things worse, even though he thought of the clever plan of dressing up, he ends up blowing his cover, simply by getting into another fight with Spanky.
– There are lots of guards at the customs, with advanced weaponry, mechas and professional equipment. Dan blows his cover right in the middle of them, surrounded by about two dozen of these guys. And yet they let them go. They don’t arrest a criminal who is wanted for committing multiple crimes and who even is notorious enough to have entire billboards full of wanted posters. Yes.
– Also, check this picture of Rouge as she’s lying under some medical thingy. What the hell is up with that waste? I mean, anorexia is one thing, but this is just ridiculous.
– Later in the episode, Dan and Flora get themselves surrounded yet again. All these soldiers are armed with guns. Dan fights them off… with a basketball. A freaking basketball. Versus dozens of guards. And he actually wins.
– To make matters even more ridiculous, Flora finds this a good moment to show her real identity. She pulls off her clothes, under which her full princess outfit was hidden.
– The only thing that all of the guards are able to do is kneel and make weird puking noises. No seriously, what was up with those yelps of pain as they kneeled before the princess?
– Flora uses her authority to stop Dan’s arrest. Yes, being a princess is fun!
But yeah, on the other hand: who cares? I think that we all should have seen this point coming, right when it became clear that the director of Kiss Dum was going to take over this series. In the end, all I’m asking from this series is an entertaining finale. I remember that last year at this point, Macross Frontier did the complete opposite and delivered an incredibly generic and boring finale for me, so my big hope here is that Satelight is able to avoid this and end the series on a high note, rather than with a disappointment. You can see that this series is still building up at this point, so it really can go anywhere at this point.
And for all the stupidity, I also have to admit that this episode was fun to watch. Sure, it didn’t make any sense, but setting aside the newly developed romance it was fun to see Dan and Flora together, and especially Dan’s dress rocked. The new soundtrack of this series is also really good. And finally we have a Kawamori-series with a soundtrack that isn’t based around j-pop.
Rating: (Enjoyable)]]>
Basquash! – 21
“Sure, it didn’t make any sense, but it was fun to watch”
I don’t see what changed since the beginning of the series. Nonsensical fun has ALWAYS been there. You complaining about it right now in episode 21. THAT is nonsense.
“Sure, it didn’t make any sense, but it was fun to watch”
I don’t see what changed since the beginning of the series. Nonsensical fun has ALWAYS been there. You complaining about it right now in episode 21. THAT is nonsense.
I agree…the series always had that nonsense touch… Maybe in this episode they took the whole thing a little bit far of the usual.
Since FLCL this kind of things are like the rule for this kind of comedies…or like the author of FLCL said: “I did FLCL the way i did it because i think Being Stupid is good too…”
So you’re complaining that an anime has GOTTEN ridiculous? The show is about basketball playing MECHAS, for God’s sake. What about the ‘magical triplets’ that confused them by putting on wigs and using cardboard cutouts? What that really more ridiculous than a princess falling in love with a strong character? I did see the waist problem, though. But that’s just an art flaw. It happens. All in all: this was another basquash episode. What did you expect?
“DAN STILL DOESN’T REALIZE THAT FLORA IS A GIRL.”
he does give a reason why he hasn’t found out it’s a girl at the ending but yeah Dan’s pretty stupid and it’s always been that way though i kinda agree you almost gotta be retarded to not know when she looks like a girl when they drag but if i’ve gotta honest i’ve seen guys that look like girls and it’s pretty scary.
Although, now may be a bit late to say it, but wasn’t Dan already fighting with the police, with a basketball, in the very beginning of the series?
Really nothing has changed with the nonsensical fun they have and what all the other commentors have said.