Akikan! 09

Posted: March 19, 2009 | Author: flomu | Filed under: Uncategorized |2 Comments »

FAIL-O-METER
The fail here is bigger than France.

This episode is filled with bad art, bad animation, bad story, bad characters, and can’t get much worse than it already is.

Let’s see here.
Out of five faces, which one is the least messed up?
It’s pretty hard to tell, really!

“Come on, give me my nose back, Kakeru-chan.”

Doesn’t Melon look a little… manly in this picture?
I’m not sure, but maybe it has to do with the misplaced, different-style nose. 

“But I can’t, because I’m blind!”

“I’m sorry… I’m blind too!”

I think it’s contagious!

THE ZOMBIES ARE ATTACKING!!

What is up with the over-usage of the darkened-out face in this episode?
Was there not enough time/motivation to draw the oh-so-crappy eyes?

Speaking of eyes…

“My huge eyes can see everything, Yell!”

“MINE TOO!”

Halfway through the episode, the eyes changed.  Drastically.
WHY!?

Was this episode’s artwork a two-man job or something?

Not only this, but the eyes disappear altogether and get replaced with that “I’m sad” hair-shadow crap I mentioned above.
It’s like… Artist 1 –> Artist 2 –> “Oh screw it, just color it black.”

 

Moving on, I’ll pick on the animation next.

Instead of the usual something-kind-of-like-a-head-turn animation that Akikan! usually has, this episode was filled with the junk above.

Instead of turning her head, Najimi is compressing her head and pushing her eyes together.  This is more of a form of self-torture than a turn of the head.  Speaking of torture, this scene was pure torture to watch.  The animation in her head-turning (and many other scenes’ animations) was so bad that I actually noticed it.  Usually if an anime as decent animation or better, I can’t notice the difference.  But when I can actually distinguish the individual frames in a few seconds of animation, I know something’s terribly wrong.  And Akikan! is terribly wrong.

Well, if you insist…

Akikan! once had a great, promising cast of characters and a strangely refreshing focus on slapstick and perverted humor.

But now?  Now it is utter crap.

Once Akikan! tried to develop something like a plotline a few episodes back, nothing good came out of it.  Kakeru, Melon, Najimi, Gigolo, etc, who were once all very unique and interesting characters, have now fallen into the pits of stereotypes and predictability.

We see Melon + Kakeru and Yell + Najimi have the classic “make-up” talks, and even the perverted humor here isn’t enough to make this stereotypical scene into something “Akikan.”  The jokes are now set aside as afterthoughts, making way for the main course, the oh-so-horrible storyline.

After watching eight episodes focusing on Kakeru being a gigantic perverted asshole, a focus on a serious Kakeru in what seems to be becoming a romance anime does not work.  It’s the equivalent of spontaneously making Chiyo-chan the star of a yuri romance with Osaka.  Though it may appeal to some fanboys, on the whole, it just doesn’t work, and it’s pretty obvious that it doesn’t work.

Although it is hard to get through a 12-episode anime based on potty humor, it’d’ve been much better for Akikan! to have focused on the random, perverted humor that did work instead of venturing off into the realms of ….plot!

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