30Sai ni Hoken Taiku
Short Synopsis: Our lead character has never had sex despite being 30.
So yeah, this pretty much was set out to be the worst show of the season. Not only did it have a terrible premise, it was also produced by the creators of Tono to Issho, an abysmal comedy. Thankfully though, at least this show has a point: it takes censorship to the absurd, showing that censorship has nowadays been so bad that even sexual education gets pointlessly censored. Apart from that though… this was \just painful to watch. This still is a show about a 30 year old virgin who gets visited by a sex god. The animation is terrible, and the few good jokes that it has are ruined by a poor delivery. This pretty much is an endless slew of corny sex jokes and the lead character getting embarrassed. Stay away from this one, if it wasn’t obvious enough already.
OP: Cheesy J-pop.
ED: Well, at least the song isn’t bad…
Potential: 0%
Sket Dance
Short Synopsis: Our lead character run a club that takes care of random jobs.
This was a decent opening, both with flaws and strengths. The major flaw is that it’s trying to be funny, yet fails at this consistently. During the build-up parts of this episode, I was mostly bored, as nothing really interesting was going on. On the other hand though, it did deliver the twist at the end quite well, and the animation in the fights is actually very good. This is the kind of show that has potential for later. The thing is, however, that this is a shounen jump adaptation. How many more episodes will it take for this show to actually make use of this potential? Will the series be over before that happens? Shounen Jump adaptations are notorious for dragging on, so I first want some confirmation that Sket Dance will not do that. Unlike for example Bakuman, neither its premise nor its characters are strong enough for that.
ED: Cheese
Potential: 65%
Dororon Enma-kun Meera Meera
Short Synopsis: Our lead character is a demon who kills other demons. And a total brat.
This… was weird. Overall it disappointed a bit, but Enma remains quite well animated, courtesy of Brains Base. This allows the creators to come up with all kinds of interesting monster and background designs. The soundtrack also is excellent and varied and overall this definitely was a fun episode to watch. The biggest problem here however was that the dialogue was trying too hard. It was too busy trying for random punchlines to get some laughs, and the actors were overreacting way too much. This is like that obnoxious brat who keeps yelling for some attention. To me, it seems like the creators did not spend enough time on thinking about how to make the dialogue work best. If this wants to work, it will have to find this balance between extremely fast pacing (yes this episode moved really fast), and the fun charms of the cast. Oh, and I’d like to thank this show for the most disgusting image I’ve seen in a long while. We really needed that.
OP: Surprisingly well animated.< Typical Go Nagai-esque OP./em>
ED: Not bad.
Potential: 50%
As a Sket Dance manga reader I can tell you that is extremely episodic…it consist mostly of individual chapters and sometimes it comes with short arcs (between 3 to 7 chapters)…There is almost no development…
Most chapters consist only of the Club members doing some random jobs or discussing bizarre topics…
So this show doesn’t drag on…its just an episodic and random anime…
Yup, I second what murderface above said.They are some backstories and plot,but the majority of the manga are just random stories.The stories in the manga really vary in quality though.Some are really good,and some are just very badly written.
Murderface, c160: so, in theory the creators of the anime could have chosen to just take the best stories of the manga, and animate those?
Meh, I saw through the twist in Sket Dance early on, so I wasn’t impressed with the delivery. And then what it’s left with is a lot of not very interesting characters and a lot of failed attempts at comedy. I think I’ll pass.
In theory,yeah,they should just animate the good stories cause the best stories are both of the comedic and dramatic kind,so it kinda balances out.But of course, some of the bad stories are also the ones that introduce new characters that will be used later on..
dorororon kun reminds me of apocalypse zero. you should check it out, only two episodes long.
sket dance reminds me of something ashirogi muto would come up with ;P lol