First Impressions: Ladies vs Butlers, Legend of Koizumi, Cobra the Animation, Chu-Bra

Look­ing back over my old first impres­sions posts, I’ve come to learn that they can be very mis­lead­ing indeed. Crap will always be crap and if I’ve marked a show as being pretty ter­rible, it gen­er­ally turns out ter­rible if I, for some reason or another, decided to go back to it. How­ever when ask­ing about mediocrity or what’s the best of the sea­son, that’s where the lines really start to blur. If any­thing, I tend to be more accur­ate with my sea­son pre­views than first impres­sions. So keep that in mind, these are knee-jerk reac­tions.

Ladies vs Butlers

The dis­con­cert­ing lack of noses. That rather dis­turb­ing face­plant scene. That hair that looks like giant alien mutant crois­sants. Mak­ing ref­er­ences to the hair look­ing like drills while not mak­ing a single Gur­ren Lagann ref­er­ence. A loli with which its ok to show panty flashes of because she’s really 17. The con­stant reuse of the same old anime tropes with noth­ing at all to call its own.

The whole idea of cre­at­ing a school teach­ing people which class they belong to. The nipples that long to burst out of their fab­ric con­fines and make them­selves known to the world. An ‘everything is dull’ start that was done a bizzilion times bet­ter by FLCL. Those scenes that are com­pletely obscured by white smoky bars to make you buy the dvd.

Phew, that’s all the faults I can think of for now. In a way this epis­ode was kind of refreshin. It’s nice to know that the anime industry is still cap­able of churn­ing out crap this unwatch­able. It con­tin­ues to boggle my mind why any­one would watch this stuff when they could just buy real porn that actu­ally shows proper stuff and lets those nipples out of their fab­ric con­fines. Stop watch­ing this crap and let those nipples free!

Rat­ing: F

Legend of Koizumi

I don’t get it. Koi­zumi is all manly and stuff and he whoops on those com­mun­ist pigs. Yee­haa!!! Yeah, in the course of this 6–7 minute run there wasn’t a single thing that even made me grin on the inside. It acted like it was being funny, oh yes. Full of totally over-reacting faces and such. It never was funny though.

No ser­i­ously, if you think this is great his­tor­ical par­ody then I com­mand you to drop everything and go watch the infin­itely super­ior and actu­ally funny Hetalia. Legend of Koi­zumi is crap.

Rat­ing: E–

Cobra the Animation

Any­one remem­ber that show Prin­cess Lover from last sum­mer? It had god-awful plot­ting, the most hor­rible anim­a­tion and was steeped in all sorts of things that you would asso­ci­ate with a crap anime. Yet, des­pite everything, the show wasn’t ter­rible, thanks to who­ever the genius was who wrote the script. That man was an abso­lute mas­ter at his trade and wasted on a show like Prin­cess Lover.

Some­thing slightly sim­ilar has happened in Cobra. The anim­a­tion is godaw­ful, which shocked me ori­gin­ally because I thought it was done by Mad­house (actu­ally it’s done by Magic Bus, who­ever the hell they are). Those women must be slightly chilly in their older-women ver­sion of Strike witches out­fits. But this show has the char­ac­ter of Cobra, who I just couldn’t help loving.

His explan­a­tion for his wounds heal­ing quickly was that he eats two bowls of corn­flakes every­day. Now there’s a man I can con­nect with! He reminds me of Johnny Bravo more than any­thing and he’s wasted in this oth­er­wise dis­astrous anime. I never ended up fin­ish­ing Prin­cess Lover so I dare say I won’t fin­ish this anime either, but for now I’ll give it the bene­fit of the doubt.

Rat­ing: C–

Chu-Bra

Who exactly is this show aimed at? Let me explain. This is an unusual mix between drown­ing in panty-flashes and a tale of grow­ing pains for teen­age girls. In fact it’s a per­fect mix between the two. In that sense I can’t work out if it’s meant to be aimed at pae­do­philes or pre-teen girls. In fact I’m almost swing towards the latter.

Now since I’ve never been a pre-teen girl myself (never thought I’d have to say that) I can’t say I know the grow­ing pains they exper­i­ence. Maybe there is actu­ally a lot for these young women to relate to in this show such as the wor­ry­ing thoughts of trans­fer­ring to adult under­wear and feel­ing both dis­gus­ted and jeal­ous at girls who already have. If this wasn’t anime I’d be cer­tain that this was an edu­ca­tional show.

It’s not actu­ally a ter­rible show. But it’s cer­tainly not watch­able. I guess you either have to be a pae­do­phile, a pre-teen girl or someone who has sud­denly decided that their career path shall be in under­wear design to actu­ally watch this show. Every­one else, there’s noth­ing to see here. It’s not bad enough to be worth your time.

Rat­ing: E+

In accord­ance to tra­di­tion, the crap­pier anime air early on so every­body can instantly claim this sea­son is ter­rible and ignore the good stuff that starts appear­ing on the 7^th and 8^th.