Today in Class 5-2 – 01
OP: “Nisemono 「ニセモノ」” by Friends: Yuu Kobayashi, Asami Shimoda, MAKO, Satomi Akesaka, Youko Honda, Kana Asumi – I’m not liking the song that much, and the animation is standard flare. I don’t even remember the OVA’s OP that much, but I already know it was better.
Summary:
Ryouta Sato gets asked by his friend Aihara Kazumi to help her with work in the afternoon. Ryouta’s friends find this suspicious, but he denies that there is any special meaning to it. When he meets with her later, Ryouta finds that Kazumi is doing many strange things with her mouth. This includes butting her pencil up to it, as well as chewing on the same pencil once all of the lead has fallen out of it. Ryouta prevents Kazumi from doing the same to his pencil, then learning that she is actually trying to do things to remedy her irritated tooth. Ryouta gets a paper cut while Kazumi takes a break, but he soon finds that she has become interested in this. Kazumi sucks on Ryouta’s injury to disinfect it, but then proceeds to bite on it. While continuing to nibble on it, Kazumi explains that Ryouta’s finger is the thing that has calmed her the most out of all the things she has tried. When Ryouta pulls his finger out of Kazumi’s mouse, the tooth that has been bothering her falls out. With this, Kazumi simply thanks Ryouta for helping her.
Ryouta later visits a store to buy a bouncing ball with his friends. This soon makes his friend Imai Koji pull out his own ball, challenging him to see whose can bounce the highest. Kawai Tsubasa, the two’s other friend, fails in his attempt to stop them. The girls Hidaka Megumi, Asano Yuki, and Aihara Kazumi show up shortly after, but Megumi and Yuki become annoyed when the boys’ balls hit their heads. The two attempt to scold them, but the boys can only focus on their competition. The two girls panic when the balls cause their panties to exposed under their dresses, which the boys were not even paying attention to. While Yuki attempts to scold the boys further, she trips over a ball and kicks Ryouta in the nuts because of it. So, although the boys unknowingly did something unforgivable to the girls, she has seemingly done even worse damage.
On another day in Class 5-2, Hirakawa Natsumi and Koizumi Chika see that the boys are not helping them with cleaning. Ryouta and Koji, in their usual delusional states, pretend to play guitars with their brooms. The girls are finally convinced to say something to the boys after awhile, but to everyone’s surprise, a fascinated Chika asks if the “band” needs a vocalist rather than asking them to get to work.
Because the boys do not have umbrellas on a rainy day, they do their best to ask if they can borrow one from the girls after school. Natsumi and Chika agree to do so, but after becoming annoyed with the crowdedness, Koji and Tsubasa leave Ryouta behind while under the umbrella they were sharing. Chika and Natsume offer for Ryouta to come under their umbrella, but the girls also express their annoyance with Ryouta’s inability to keep both of them under it afterwards. This eventually leads to the girls wondering if Ryouta prefers one of them over the other, which Ryouta only becomes frustrated with. The two girls decide to grab onto Ryouta later, deciding that they should have done this in the first place. When the three look up, however, they see that the skies have already cleared.
ED: “secret base ~Kimi ga Kureta Mono~ 「secret base ～君がくれたもの～」” by Friends: Yuu Kobayashi, Asami Shimoda, MAKO, Satomi Akesaka, Youko Honda, Kana Asumi – Another typical ED, with a slow song by one of the seiyu. Fitting, but I don’t really have much of an opinion about it besides that.
Preview: Been there, done that.
Impression:
Wow, so the best Xebec was able to do with this episode was rehash what we’ve already seen in the previous OVA with a lower profile cast and worse animation. Congratulations. I also love how we got to watch two boys play air guitar for an entire fourth of the episode for no apparent reason. “Jajaja~” indeed. It’s pretty bad that I can actually count how little I laughed or smiled through this episode, even having lost interest in watching in favor of paying attention to some random chat in IRC at points.
But you know, I’m still kind of conflicted about this series. I loved Minami-ke, which was based on a manga by the same author of 5-2, as well as this series’ OVA. Even if my impression of Xebec has gotten extremely low lately, this was no where near as bad as To Love-Ru or Kanokon ever was. That could be credited to the source material, which is more like slice of life, but does that mean Xebec will only make it more boring? (We’ve already seen what they can do to action.) I can get past the new character designs and voice talents, but do I really want to sit through three or four episodes of stuff I’ve already seen to find out if this gets better?
This show is giving me more questions than answers right now, and it’s hard for me to be enthused about an adaption by a studio that has ruined three series for me throughout my blogging experience already. Sundays are fairly free for me at the moment, but maybe I’d rather bust my butt skateboarding or work on projects instead of write about a show that I’d typically watch with only half of my attention span. If worst comes to worst, I’d probably cover this if no one else is willing to do so consistently. It would probably end up making it to my list of series that I love to hate though, and that’s never a good sign.
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What…Have…They…
DONE!!?!11ww
how could they take something so funny and make it…? GO OUT OF BUISNESS XEBEC, be gone FOREVER
T___T
What XEBEC needs is to make a new season of Nadesico, there’s manga material available (it was not used completely in the 26-episode series in 1996), and the movie was good but condensed (and skipped the prior story of certain kidnappings)… so they could just say the movie was never done and start with that story arc in a new TV series, or something.
XEBEC: Leave the pointless series to your subsidiary (XEBEC M2) and get us some Nadesico… Or better yet, D.N. Angel season 2.
OMG D.N.Angel. Totali, I see the character design, and I’m not likey.
Fawk you, Xebec. Fawk you. ;_;
XEBEC, 死ねえええええええええええええええええええええええええええええええええええ!
When a fooking hentai studio pays more attention to quality, cinematics and situational comedy better than you do, it’s simply time to close up shop. This is just awful, inexcusable, shoddy excuse of a hackmaster’s wet dream. To describe how horrible it is, I need to string together a bunch of German compound words. But then I had to suffer through their original vignette with the broom guitars. Goddamn, how did this piece of horseshit get approved? It’s times like these I’m glad I’m a leeching bloodsucker ruining the anime industry so I don’t have to pay to see this waste of time I’ll never get back.
That’s probably the most true thing you’ve said since…yesterday.
See, I don’t just spam.
I also rant :p
I think I might watch this show, it’s always good to have a lazy slice of lifer to enjoy. I too also enjoy a girl sucking my finger in her mouse. It always heals my wounds.
it’s hard to believe that XEBEC made Busou Renkin (which they did a good job in)
and their past works like Love Hina wasn’t that bad…
o___o maybe they’re under new gay management focusing on making things look like hentai.
http://subculture.animeblogger.net/images/5-2/5-201_op3.jpg
That just screams Kanokon designs… well, worse than Kanokon designs…
Where did the old days of Nadesico go to?
Today In Class 5-2. Never again. Plus, someof that art just looks…wrong.
OVA>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>TV show.
No wait. I just rewatched the OVA. it’s shit.
Wow. This is so fail.
I am too lazy to rant out, so Iainteasy spoke everything I wanted to say. I don’t even want to make a review out of it anymore.
Oh, ooops! I thought this would be a personal post about what happened to you in class today… T_T
DanGO away.
Kanakon wasn’t bad at all. It just isn’t your thing if you don’t like excessive fanservice.
Show with excessive fanservice and was still enjoyable: Umisho.
Kanokon took all of the character development and plot that was in the original novels/drama cd and replaced with with tits and ass. But….I already talked about that when I covered that show from start to finish.
TITS AND ASS. Valid components of a good anime that features girls and their mice. I approve.
OVA version is better than the animated version lol. Maybe I would watch episodes that didn’t included in the OVA.
They made a mistake of having XEBEC handle this anime way too wrong. Disappointment and Despair for this good series.
OMG XEBEC devil begone.
When watching this I just kind of got bored and didn’t want to finish the episode, especially with the broom guitar part =_=, it all really just wasn’t that funny or entertaining.
I doubt I’ll keep watching this series but I think I’ll give it another episode or two first…
I would have been okay with the new people involved, but omitting my loli panty shots? Damn you to hell, Xebec!
(In Cap’n Wilder voice)
Today in Class 5-2…
The student learn all about sex education. LIVE! UNINHIBITED! PURE
Could not resist doing that pun.
Totali… have you drawn a girl and her mouse yet?
No.
The Ova is much better though,.