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The love comedy with the naked men returns.

Summary:

All of the Inukami are attending a funeral for Karina, who has seemingly passed away. However, Keita and Yoko are not there, as they are running from members of Project K in the city. A bit further back in the past, the Inukami were celebrating a completed job with a drink. Keita and Yoko had helped a group of frogs, and received a very large stone frog as a reward. In their drunken state, the Inukami started stripping. When Karina expressed his want to leave, the girls suggested that he actually like it. Denying this, Karina had run out of the apartment while expressing his hate of perverts. However, that had resulted in his death.

Yoko finally finds Keita in the city, as they observe the Project K members’ actions. Elsewhere, the rest of the Inukami girls attempt to find the reason for Karina’s death. Back in the city, all of the perverts are being harassed by the Project K members. They eventually find Keita as well, and surround him. After running away from Project K with the help of his pervert allies, Keita learns of Project K’s intent of capturing all of the perverts. Kaoru, Nadeshiko, and Sendan continue to investigate the reason for Karina’s death elsewhere, while drawing conclusions about Project K. Project K begins invading the perverts’ hideout, so Keita and Yoko escape as their last hope.

In the morning, the final preparations for Karina’s funeral are made. Keita and Yoko hear an announcement from Project K, as all of the perverts have been captured. They challenge Keita as the only one left, and he appears to save his allies by revealing himself as the king. The main Project K member finally reveals himself as Karina, as he breaks into song. However, Keita quickly determines that he is an impostor. The fake Karina soon agrees, explaining that he was born when the magic item had absorbed Karin’s powerful feelings. Finding that the real Karina’s body is being sent to the cremator, Tayune and Tomohane quickly dispatch to prevent this.

They are soon stopped, however, as many Karina clones are revealed. The Inukami do their best to fend them off, but the clones reveal their combination technique by transforming into one large robot. The Inukami continue to have trouble against the robot, but they are reminded of something big that could help. A group of Kaoru’s Inukami bring the large stone frog to Keita, so he uses it to finally finish off the robot. With this, all of the perverts are freed, and Karina’s body is saved in the nick of time. Karina meets Keita to give him a hug of appreciation, but this causes a misunderstanding from the Inukami girls. Keita and Karina yell out together that they are not perverts, as the sun sets in the background.

Impression:

So I wasn’t planning on blogging this when I watched it a couple days ago, but I needed a break from studies. Needless to say, this movie was hilarious. Inukami is one of the most underrated love comedies out there, probably because it is put off as the anime with naked men. I was surprised to find that the movie was only a bit over 26 minutes long, but it was fun to see all of the typical Inukami moments return none the less. I’m sure everyone caught the obvious parodies. There was Nanoha, Haruhi, Shana, Death Note, The Matrix, and a typical Mahou Shoujo transformation. I probably missed a few as well.

One of the things that makes me laugh the most about this show is the subtle things, like Yoko’s expressions whenever Keita is doing something ridiculous. This anime also seems to be the one that uses the word “hentai” the most out of any other. Oh man, Project K was funny. Hearing Yui Horie play a role that I actually like was refreshing after all of the “ayu” roles I have been hearing too much of recently, and the rest of the cast gave me reminiscent feelings as well. Interestingly enough, the movie’s plot was pretty stand alone, and had nothing to do with the cliffhanger that the TV series left. I guess that means we’re open for a second season. I’ll definitely be ready to watch that whenever it comes out. Look mom, it’s an elephant!