Ichiban Ushiro No Daimao episode 1

Demon King something-or-other is one of these Harry Pot­ter esque school life magical anime, remin­is­cent of Negima and so on. The lead char­ac­ter is mildly inter­est­ing, the anim­a­tion is pretty clean cut and the music is sur­pris­ingly non-sucky. But it has that one thing that I’ve come to detest in anime: Point­less upskirt shots, and lots of them.

I mean, look at that. I don’t mind it when they have an ima­gin­ary flash­for­ward to Demon King rip­ping off the clothes of beau­ti­ful women. I don’t see any prob­lem with sexu­al­ising a scene with extra bonus shots when a girl is try­ing to seduce a guy. Nor do I even mind shower scenes or the like. Heck, I’m not that pushed if you have panty shots because a girl is leap­ing through the air with a skirt on. In fact, that’s almost prefer­able because you will nat­ur­ally show off your under­wear if you’re rid­ing around on a Ride Back like Ogata Rin, oth­er­wise you get bizarre anti-grav skirts like Kuniko in Shangri-La. But just show­ing a panty shot for the hell of things like this pisses me off. It’s the height of bloody lazi­ness. Noth­ing needs to be hap­pen­ing, they just felt like show­ing you her ass.

I usu­ally say that the first anime I watched weekly was Spice and Wolf in the Winter of 2008. That’s not actu­ally true. The first anime I tried watch­ing as it came out in Japan was that pile of crap called Ros­ario to Vam­pire. That’s like your first anime, the one you are meant to have loads of nos­tal­gia for, your gate­way drug, was actu­ally the second anime you watched at the first was actu­ally Futakoi. I have a lot of ill-feeling towards Ros­ario to Vam­pire because of that. You’ve ruined per­fect story-telling prop­er­ties of my anime fan­dom while sim­ul­tan­eously suck­ing hor­ribly. Oh, and provid­ing lots of ass shots for the sake of show­ing ass shots. She didn’t even need to move. You just get a nice help­ful dos­ing of ass.

The cen­sor­ship pirate-eye is strong in this one.

The actual anime itself isn’t exactly ter­rible. But fuck it, I’m not in the mood to sit through point­less lazy ass shots. Give me B Gata H Kei over this any day. At least she has a bloody excuse for rip­ping off her top.