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 […]
3 Episode Taste Test: Princess Lover
Or to give its full, punctuated title: Princess Lover! The premise — once again — is to cram as many lithe, buxom females into as confined a space as possible and provide an empty husk of a male protagonist to catalyse their frequently outlandish but never overtly raunchy interactions. In short: fan-service romance comedy. The anime […]







