Ebiten
Short Synopsis: Our lead character strips innocent girls to their underwear.
So, Ebiten has immediately won the “Worst character-designs of the season”-award (those eyes!), but what about the rest of the episode? Well, I guess it wasn’t that bad. Of course it wasn’t anything amazing, and don’t ask me why that one girl had to be stripped and tied up all the time, but when the characters in this episode started role-playing, things got fairly amusing. Ebiten is a show that thrives on meta-fiction: its set up is similar to the bad parts of Haruhi, and there were a lot of Saint Seiya references in this episode. And not the kind of references that are there for the sake of having references, but they were actively used. I think the best series to compare this with is a Joshiraku minus the wordplay and with a ton of random fanservice added, but unlike Joshiraku the characters were trying to be actual characters, rather than vehicles for the author to show off his sense of wordplay. Does that make up for the fanservice? I dunno? That depends on the next episodes.
ED: Why are you trying to make live-action girls substitute for the characters? It’s not like they look alike or anything; bad use of idols
Potential: 50%
Some Quick First Impressions: Ebiten
“Joshiraku minus the wordplay”…
I think that would result in… nothing. The only thing Joshiraku has going for it is the wordplay 🙂
Corny character designs indeed. Btw psgels, since you go through so many series, how about a ‘hall of shame’ type topic once in a while :p?
It’s pretty much Seitokai no Ichizon except without the male harem lead
This is a harem, the male lead is there, if you look close enough you’ll notice XD
yeah I had the feeling the new member is a he, but is he a harem lead or is he going to be the toy of the club
I guess that it is interesting part of the series for ‘why is he cross-dressing?’
Well I guess he will be a harem lead, but whether that’s one with balls or not is another question..
btw, are those gals really idols? or are they just the seiyus?