Category: Tantei Opera Milky Holmes

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How do they come up with the premises for these episodes?!

Until now, there at least was some sort of semblance of logic of what each episode was about. Despite all the weird things that happened, at least at the core you could get why it was included in the series, and how the creators came up with. Even the previous episodes makes sense when you see it as an episode that tried to parody as much as possible.

This week though, I’m blank. What crazy mind came up with the following: an island, in which a big muscled man wearing a shark hat and riding an octopus commands a bunch of sea otters who keep people prisoner in order to have them harvest sea cucumbers. What? Why?!

Even so, this episode again was utterly hilarious. The entire context was already completely bizarre, but the extreme hyperactive pacing made it even crazier. The sea urchin song in particular was hysterical, but also Henriette’s disguise in this episode was completely priceless. Other highlights include the scene in which everyone got separated and got stuck with a member of the opposing team and the creators actually managed to make all four of the cases hilarious, again with a ton of self-parody as well. The Toys in the first season were the only serious part of the show. Here, they get played completely for laughs. And then there was the ending. That was awesome as well.

And on top of that: what also shouldn’t be overlooked is how great the animation in this series is. I mean, holy crap. Usually comedies tend to use a lot of still frames and simple animation. Here, the animation was just all over the place. It was full of varied poses and there were a lot of visual ideas and expressions put into it. One of the reasons why the comedy works so well is because so much energy has been put into bringing these characters to life.
Rating: *** (Awesome)

As for the shows I’m not going to blog:
– What’s the point of giving someone such a ridiculously stupid power as having a tennis racquet with only two stings if you don’t even use it?
– Thankfully Recorder and Randsell 02 skipped the bad humour. There is something really annoying about a grown man whining like a little kid, though.

As for Milky Holmes though.. madness like this needs to be documented. I mean, I wasn’t fully looking forward to this series, due to the comedy sequel syndrome. It’s very rare for a comedy sequel to be able to live up to the first season, especially for the good ones. And it’s exactly that that these past two episodes of Milky Holmes have been completely parodying like no other. Because yeah, the first season ended pretty conclusively. These past two episodes were entirely about that series being so well wrapped up that the main cast had no idea what to do, to the point where their enormous appetites just took over and they started a farm of all things.

Another big change was that the first season was at least somewhat grounded in reality. Season 2 had the creators go just all out. It’s even more extreme than before. But what it really causes to descend into madness are the unbelievable things that it pulls out of its ass. It’s all done for the sake of parody, and this show just pokes fun at everything, including itself. This episode in particular: it took quite a few overused tropes and completely pounded them with its stupidity and over the topness. The chase scene in particular was hysterical. When I already thought that the creators couldn’t go even further with the biggest stereotype of an american I’ve ever seen, that beached whale suddenly showed up from out of nowhere. Seriously. A beached whale?!

Some other things that this show poked fun of that surprised me were various American movies like ET and Pirates of the Caribbean. And seriously… that one beach episode of Ao no Exorcist. Seriously, I have no idea why, but that final scene immediately reminded me of that one episode.

The energy of this show… this show is on even more crack than the first season was. And it’s still very funny and enjoyable to watch. Because of that, I’m going to blog this series, because it was by far my favorite comedy of the season, and I really hope that the creators will have enough inspiration to fill 12 episodes. And if they don’t… well, I can always swap this with Ano Natsu or something.
Rating: ** (Excellent)