So I wanted to do an anime I can’t recommend to pretty much anyone, since I haven’t done enough yet and I’m starting to feel like Fuuma just likes everything anime. which is only kinda true… So from the bowels of 1998 I bring you Yoiko!
The premise of the show is extremely simple and follows the same thought process of the underwear gnomes: Step 1) Fuuka-chan, the protagonist, is an extremely developed 5th grader; Step 2 ) ???; Step 3) Hilarity. Most of the entertainment value is in it’s sex jokes and immense fan-service. I didn’t really appreciate either most of the time. I mean sure, from time to time the HILARITERRIBLENESS of Fuuka showering at the beginning of the episodes, or doing something relatively licentious seeming would make me crack up, but it didn’t really have enough going on to be so bad it’s amazing, and the stuff it was “shooting” for *wink wink* fell flat with me. Perhaps I am just not into 2-D enough as an Otaku… I did really enjoy the Oniichan’s constant praying to the god of masturbation and getting cock-blocked. I thought that was hilarious in it’s own right, the poor bastard.
Fuuka is an innocent bystander in most of the antics, and just kinda wants to live out her childhood. She makes friends in class who she enjoys time with, and they are also relatively innocent and want to live their lives as kids. They are constantly accompanied by their desperate and single OL teacher, who serves as a chaperone for their antics, and also occasionally tries to use Fuuka’s adult charm to her own advantage. The show ridicules her for being unattractive and single, which I don’t enjoy, though her drunken antics were occasionally funny.
In general, there are times this show is offensive (the oogling and general sukebe-ness of people’s reactions to Fuuka got bothersome to me from time to time), times it’s just ecchi and silly fun, usually it’s plot points are all about misunderstandings and the main appeal is sex jokes. At the very least, it doesn’t condone pedophilia, and that is a strong plus with a premise like its. If that means BANZAI! to you, sure, why the hell not watch it. Otherwise, don’t touch this show with a ten foot pole. Go watch B Gata H Kei instead (unless you’re THAT kind of person and the female POV distress you and you need more objectification with your ecchi fun. In that case, go watch Ladies Versus Butlers or something.).
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