Shameful Otaku Secret!

The cruelest month begins

April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire

Et cetera, et cetera. TS Eliot’s poem The Waste Land gives us a dark and surreal glimpse into a post-apocalyptic nightmare world. But can Eliot’s harrowing vision compare with what I have seen this particular April? I don’t know about memory, but it must be desire time, because Production IG subsidiary Xebec gives us not one but two seemingly over-the-top service-heavy/ecchi-lite comedy series this spring. The first to be subbed is Kanokon.

OK, before the recap, I’m gonna break the post, just so you can avoid these screencaps if you’re working or something. If you’re already on the permalink and don’t see the “more” link, for the love of baby Jesus do not scroll down.

Recap, wherein I touch it with a ten foot pole

Kouta is, somewhat poetically, a shota who transfers to a city high school from the country. He’s pursued by the huge-breasted pedophile Chizuru, who I think likes him because he smells like rural stuff. Horse crap, maybe.

So guess what holy shit she’s some kind of fox spirit thing! And she has the power not only to possess him (thus giving him her tail and ears) but apparently to do the sex with him as well.

Saying more would imply that there is more to it, but there doesn’t seem to be much. Somewhere halfway through, my desire to count panty shots melted away, along with my desire to continue living.

Disclaimer

Let it be known that I’m watching absolutely everything I can get my hands on, and taking it from there. How many shows I end up with will depend on the same factors as it will for everyone — how good is it, how fast do decent subs come out, and is it worth bumping something else for?

That said, I loved writing about H2O last season because I hated the show itself. Absolutely hated it. And I was probably being overly cruel. So I’m wondering what will happen with a show that possesses absolutely zero merits, such as… Kanokon. Actually, I’m kind of waiting for To Love-Ru because it seems even worse, though the borderline raunchy OP is loaded with style, something Kanokon lacks altogether — unless you mean styles of panties, there are plenty of those.

One way or another, I will blog one of these shows — if nothing else, just to keep the name of my blog relevant.

- otou-san out!

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