Camera angles low, skirts short, females buxom and bath scenes aplenty, Ladies versus Butlers never forgets to pepper each episode with some pointless nudity or contrived situation aimed at keeping the chronically distracted engaged. Odd then that it routinely forgets its own premise, most of its own rules and the chest size […]
3 Episode Taste Test: Sora no Otoshimono (Heaven’s Lost Property)
Around the ending credits of the second episode one realises that they’ve just watched a flock of women’s underwear take flight, some with mock jet-streams behind them. That the key element of Sora no Otoshimono’s story — a busty, docile angel that fell from a hole in the sky — is the most tame concept of the series demonstrates […]
3 Episode Taste Test: Seiken no Blacksmith (The Sacred Blacksmith)
Seiken no Blacksmith is about as close to sword porn as anime is likely to get — gratuitous close-ups of everything from katanas to two-handed broadswords, even a sword that turns into a scantily clothed female — there is no doubt that someone on the production team has a borderline fetish for the weapons. It is […]
3 Episode Taste Test: Kiddy Girl-and
Kiddy Grade has had a troubled upbringing: originally aired in 2002 by a still vaguely respectable Gonzo, it was an unremarkable series until past the half-way point when it briefly became excellent then dipped back down to a simmering mediocre. Notable only insofar that it was directed by Keiji Gotoh who also […]
3 Episode Taste Test: Yoku wakaru gendai mahou (Properly learned modern magic)
There are many good panty episodes in anime: episode four of Mai-HiME springs to mind as one, episode three of Yoku wakaru gendai mahou is not. Whereas the former had comic timing well beyond what one would have expected its studio to be able to produce, the latter is tawdry, boring tripe […]
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