Mitsudomoe episode 1

This actu­ally doesn’t look too bad judging by the trailer and it’s in fairly safe hands with the Minami-ke crew. Seems strange for me to be recom­mend­ing a show like this but the trailer made me grin so I say go for it

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I was right, I was right, nyeah nyeah nyeah nyeah nyeah!

Mit­sudamoe is a dumb com­edy. Let’s get that out of the way. This is far from the care­fully con­struc­ted, clever break­ing down of social norms that Arakawa was. This is low-brow humour. Small penis jokes and Nipples the Ham­ster. How­ever it is funny. It’s set up very sim­ilar to Hanamaru, except this time the chaotic angle of the classroom is played up to the extreme. It really is just Tsu­chi with a rounder head, try­ing to keep con­trol of a classroom. Heck, we even have a big-breasted love interest who the kids have taken it upon them­selves to help kick-start their romance. Where as Hanamru was very inno­cent in its aproach, Mit­sudamoe is far more risque.

I’m still wary of heap­ing praise on it though. It could poten­tially get old very fast if these char­ac­ters have noth­ing bey­ond what they’ve shown in the first epis­ode. Hanamaru got through by show­ing some heart but I’m not sure Mit­sudamoe has shown that it has that poten­tial in it’s locker. The other thing I’m slightly wary of is the thing people were tout­ing before it began: Pedo bait. The only thing I have a prob­lem with is sexu­al­ising these kids. I have no prob­lem with kids being fas­cin­ated with sex (show me one 12 year old kid who isn’t fas­cin­ated by boobs) and that’s all this epis­ode had…but I dunno, some­thing about the way they set about doing this epis­ode made me worry. I may sound like a right stuck-up prick here, but pedo-bait shows can all go die in a fire as far as I’m con­cerned. Please don’t go that way Mitsudamoe.

Whatever about future pre­dic­tions, this epis­ode was genu­inely funny. It may have been low-brow and relied upon quick-fire jokes when some of them fell flat on their face, but I still lol’d more than once watch­ing this epis­ode. So yeah, best first epis­ode so far, which for all my ambi­tious pre­dic­tions, I still did not expect.