Ookiebookie Fooribookie season 2 episode 1

Or whatever the hell it’s non­sensic­ally com­plic­ated and impossible to spell without copy­past­ing from MAL is. Instead of being a wee­aboo,  I’m just going to call it Big Win­dup from now on. I will not, how­ever, start call­ing Seto no Hanayome ‘My Bride is a Mer­maid’. Although I really should start call­ing her Holo. She even writes her own name like that. Guess I’m still a weeaboo.

So I decided to check out the first sea­son of Big Win­dup for a few reas­ons. The main reason was because there was a new sea­son on its way, obvi­ously. The other was because I was slowly real­ising I had taken a lik­ing to sports anime and this was one of the best rated ones that focused on the tac­tics and team­work. Other is because it involved a lot of guys hav­ing bond­ing ses­sions and fujioshi bait and for some reason I seem to like those sort of anime (yeah, really). I watched the first 4 epis­odes on Fun­im­a­tions you­tube chan­nel but was actu­ally a bit dis­ap­poin­ted. If any­thing, it was too down to earth. The char­ac­ters were so nor­mal that they had pretty dull con­ver­sa­tions. Oddly enough, Mihashi was by far my favour­ite char­ac­ter because he had the most extreme per­son­al­ity. I loved how whenever someone called his name he would do the typ­ical Mihashi reac­tion of ‘shiver-spin-look for some­where to hide’. But when the series turned to the epic 11 epis­ode match it really picked up and became the proper team-driven sports anime I had been prom­ised it was like. It was only then that the dif­fer­ent ele­ments of the story put them­selves together to become an extremely enjoy­able anime.

So his­tory of my Big Win­dup fan­dom out of the way, wel­come to the new sea­son! Unfor­tu­nately it star­ted being as down to earth as the early epis­odes of the first sea­son were which as I said, aren’t actu­ally that inter­est­ing. For example when the two guys were in the res­taur­ant dis­cuss­ing Mihashi’s team it was a bit dull. Dis­cuss­ing tac­tics was inter­est­ing, dis­cuss­ing their base­ball his­tory was not. These scenes are obvi­ously required to make later base­ball matches work bet­ter so it’s not like they can omit the scenes but it is some­thing that impacts my enjoy­ment of the series as a whole. It did give us the pro­spect of watch­ing female cheer­lead­ers this sea­son that doesn’t require you to watch Heroman.

There’s not a whole lot to say about Big Win­dup though. If you’ve watched the first sea­son you’ll watch the second, simple as. The only thing I want to men­tion is finally someone men­tioned the coaches massive boobs! A team full of teen­age boys spend their time round a women whose tits are so big she has the prop them up with her crossed arms and squeezes them together whenever she gets excited and yet they didn’t once make ref­er­ence to them in the first sea­son? It just didn’t make sense! Then they poin­ted out this sea­son that the very reason they didn’t make ref­er­ence to them is pre­cisely because they don’t want to sexu­al­ise their coach. Ah well, if you guys don’t want to stare at them then I will.