'Lust of lovers in the summer' Story Event~Morinaga Route
(It's hot again today....)
I walk in the sunshine, wiping the sweat off my face.
But despite the heat, joyful voices could be heard from all over the town.
Merchant 1: "It's almost the summer festival, isn't it? Morinaga-san and his friends are going to do something, aren't they? Have you heard the details?"
Merchant 2: "No, not at all. But it’ll be fun with that man leading the way."
Merchant 3: "Yes. I wonder, what's in store for us?"
(As expected of Morinaga-san..... Everyone is hyped.)
In order to liven up the town of Kamakura, which is suffering from the extreme heat, the samurai of Kamakura decided to hold a summer festival.
Morinaga-san was appointed by Yoritomo-sama to take charge of this.
He is now working with his men in one part of the town to prepare for the festival.
(I can only help by bringing some refreshments, but I hope the festival is a success.)
....................
(Oh, I think this is the workshop.)
It looks like they have just stepped out onto the back of the stage, which is being assembled.
Yoshino: "Um, hello. I've brought you some----"
Morinaga: "Oh hey, Yoshino. Come here."
(Ha!!!..... Half-naked Morinaga-san!)
His exposed, water-soaked upper body is a sight to behold.
Morinaga: "Oh, sorry about this. I was just taking a dip in the water because I was sweating at work."
Morinaga-san approached me looking like that.
Yoshino: "Erm....where are the others?"
Morinaga: "We decided to take a break a while ago."
Yoshino: "Um, Morinaga-san...if you could...wear your kimono back on...?"
Morinaga: "Why? You have already seen me like this last night. Are still embarrassed? No wait,.....You're embarrassed because you saw me like this last night, isn't it?"
Morinaga-san bent down lightly and looked into my eyes, and my cheeks heated up.
Yoshino: "Nn..Don't tease me....."
Morinaga: "Sorry, I must have hit the nail on the head."
Morinaga-san's smile deepens as I look away, unable to bear my embarrassment.
Morinaga: "You're so cute."
He looked at me with his sweet, lechery eyes and my heart clenched.
(But....I'm at the mercy of Morinaga-san all the time.)
I have only recently fallen in love with him, and I am swept away by the little antics of the more mature Morinaga-san.
Morinaga: "There's nothing wrong in having a shy face, but it's lonely when you look away so much."
Taking both my hands, Morinaga-san let me hook them around his neck, wondering what I was thinking.
(Wh-Whaa...this position?)
Morinaga: "You looked me right in the eye last night, didn't you? It was lovely to see you begging for it, .....but I don't think I'll see it again today."
Yoshino: "Mm...."
A thick-skinned finger flicked my lips, causing a slight sensation of pleasure.
Morinaga-san's face comes to me as if he was enjoying seeing me blushing....
We kissed,....a soft tongue crept through the opening to gently pamper my mouth.
Yoshino: "Hmm....ah..."
Morinaga: "At last a voice that sounds familiar..."
(Mm....I don't know, but it's like he's trying to revive the last night's memories...)
Morinaga-san embraces my waist with his big hands and melts me with his mouth.
In between, his hands start to trace my legs from my waist, reminding me of how he touched me last night.
From my toes to my head, I felt a sweet sensation that sent shivers down my spine.
Yoshino: "Haa.....No, Morinaga-san. Someone...might see us...."
Morinaga: "How can I stop, when you make that lovely face? You're such a sly, first, you make that face, and then you won't even let me play."
Yoshino: "What do....you mean by 'play'?"
Morinaga: "Play with you, of course."
Yoshino: "No. Not now....!"
I shouted and pressed the package against his chest and Morinaga-san chuckled.
Yoshino: "Are you teasing me....?"
Morinaga: "No,..... it's just that you're so comfortable with me that I got carried away."
(.....Mm)
A gentle but dangerous flame of greed burned in his eyes, which were drawn back by a pleasant smile.
As soon as I realized this, we kissed again.
Samurai 1: "Morinaga-sama! We're back!"
(.....!?)
Samurai 1: "Huh, I don't see Morinaga-sama."
Samurai 2: "Maybe he had gone somewhere?"
(Everyone is back....!)
A voice from the other side of the stage made me instantly impatient.
They are nice people who are happy to see us together, but there is no way I can show them this.
Yoshino: "Morinaga-san, they are all here. Let go now...."
I try to pull away, but the hand on my hip doesn't budge.
Morinaga: "Heh, are you sure you wanna go in front of other men with that face?"
Yoshino: "Mm....."
The back of his fingers brushed my cheek, kindling another sweet tingle.
Morinaga: "Teary eyes, blushing face.... I'm the only one allowed to see you like this. Isn't that right?"
Yoshino: ".....Y-Yes..."
Morinaga: "Yeah, good girl."
Satisfied with my reply, Morinaga-san comes closer and rubs the tip of our noses together....
When I had my fill of hidden kisses, the package I had to deliver was gently taken away.
Morinaga: "I'll deliver this. If they see you right now, I'll be jealous. Thank you, and be careful on your way back."
Yoshino: "Ah....."
(---Let's run.)
Even my breath is hot and I feel a little embarrassed again.
(Alas! What a sly person.......... who only makes me throb.)
.................
One day after that-----
Merchant 1: "Did you hear? There's going to be a big raffle at the festival, and everyone gets to draw once."
(Heh, I see.)
I came to the town to sell medicine and listened to the voices I heard.
But then----
Merchant 1: "And the raffle! The first prize is the right to have one wish granted by Morinaga-sama."
(Ehh?)
Merchant 2: "Is that so? Well, then we'll have our roof repaired."
Kids: "We want Morinaga-san to play with us!"
Merchant 3: "Hmmm, maybe I'll have a lesson in the art of gambling then."
(Hehe. There are many kinds of wishes.)
I smile as people talk happily about the festival.
Woman: "Really!, then, that I should invite Morinaga-sama on a date."
(....!?)
Merchant 1: "Well, maybe you will surely get your way with him! Now we'll all be participating in the raffle anyway!"
(No no no no.....whaa?)
I could no longer listen to their excited laughter with any sense of calm.
(Is it possible that Morinaga-san will go on a date with other women....?)
....................
Morinaga: "Ohhh, so I'm the prize. I've been a winner but never been a prize before."
Yoshino: "What do you mean, you didn't know?"
When I asked him about it after returning to the Imperial Palace, he gave me a very relaxed response.
Kagetoki: "You're very popular with people. It's going to be a lot of fun, isn't it?"
Morinaga: "I'm not sure if that was your idea, Kagetoki, I don't mind, though. But at the very least, you should have informed me about this. Yoritomo-sama, entrust this to me, you know?"
Kagetoki: "It's not going to change anything. It's up to you to make it happen."
Morinaga: "That's true."
As Morinaga-san pondered this, my concern deepened.
(.....I'm sure it's a good event, as the aim is to provide fun for the people of the town.)
(But what if Morinaga-san goes on to date with the person who drew the first prize...!)
...................
After Morinaga-san and Kagetoki-san had gone, I gave a small shrug of my shoulders.
(I don't want Morinaga-san to go on a date with....any other woman.)
Shigehira: "Yoshino-san, what are you doing here?"
Yoshino: "! Shigehira-kun."
When I expressed my concerns to Shigehira-kun, who said he would listen to me, he looked at me in dismay.
Shigehira: "Oh, dear! That's what you're worried about?"
Yoshino: "Yeah!"
Shigehira: "It's certainly possible that a woman with such hopes could win first prize."
(Mmmmm....)
Shigehira: "But I don't think he's going to take it very well with you around. I think you should talk to him directly, not me."
Shigehira: "----You guys are in love, right?"
Yoshino: "....! Thank you, Shigehira-kun."
(It's nice to have straightforward encouragement at a time like this.)
(Okay. Let's talk to Morinaga-san about this later.)
.................
But Morinaga-san was always busy, and time went by without him having a chance.
(Hmmm, what to do....)
The day before the festival, I was returning from the city to the palace with a troubled mind.
(Oh, I can hear some voices....)
(Morinaga-san must be rehearsing for his festival.)
I stopped to look around and a shrine happened to catch my eye.
(I'm not sure if I'll be able to see him today... can I ask God for help?)
I put my hands together, closed my eyes, and breathe.
(I have one wish....-----)
(May I win the first prize in tomorrow’s raffle!)
Morinaga: "You look very serious. Is something bothering you?"
Yoshino: "Ah, Morinaga-san.....!?"
Morinaga: "Hey. It's been a while since I've seen our face properly."
I looked up at the familiar voice and saw Morinaga-san standing right next to me.
Yoshino: "What are you doing here? I thought you were practicing?"
Morinaga: "Right. We were just about to wrap up. I was just about to join you. But what's wrong with you? It seems like you're asking God for help."
(Okay....there's no better opportunity than now.)
Yoshino: "Morinaga-san, I have something to talk about. Can I have some of your time?"
Morinaga: "Talk? About what?"
Yoshino: "If it's a bother then----"
Morinaga: "Not at all. You're always welcome to talk to me. Then come to my house tonight. It's been a while since we've spent any time together."
Yoshino: "Yes....!"
(I only got my promise. Thank you god.)
.........
Thus, I was invited to visit Morinaga-san in his room....
I went to the house at a time when the practice would be over and was immediately shown into Morinaga-san's room.
(Hmm. I don't think he's home yet....)
I relaxed my shoulders and looked around.
As I was wondering how I was going to start the conversation----
I heard someone's footsteps walking towards me.
Morinaga: "Here you are. Have I kept you waiting long?"
(Ah.....!)
Yoshino: "No, I just arrived...."
No sooner had I said this than Morinaga-san sat down in front of me.
Morinaga: "Come here."
(Ehh!)
He lifts me up by my waist and placed me on his lap.
Morinaga: "What do you wanna talk about? Let me hear it."
(Like this....!?)
This position, straddling on Morinaga-san's lap and resting my weight on them is too embarrassing.
But the hands that pulled me down to my waist wouldn’t allow me to move away.
Morinaga: "I'm getting a bit tired after all the work we've been doing for the festival. It wouldn't hurt to get a little energy from my own little girl for a night, would it?"
(That's a little.....)
My heart fluttered as I realized that the eyes staring at me had long since reached a fever pitch.
Morinaga: "Hey, can I kiss you?"
Yoshino: "....... Yes."
His slightly rough, masculine lips press softly against mine.
(Mm.....)
I haven't had the sensation of a moist, repeated kiss for days.
The feeling makes us breathless, and we lose ourselves in each other.
(Oh, my hands....)
I felt a gentle nudge of the leg that had been straddling my thigh, and the pit of my stomach slowly....melted.
The finger that entered through the hem of the kimono traced up my inner thigh as if it had seen through it.
(Ah-----no!)
I wondered at his hand, which had stopped just before touching my fragile part, and met his eyes, which narrowed happily.
Morinaga: "...I think I'd better go on from here after I've heard all your troubles. What's the matter?"
(Ngh....)
Yoshino: "Not fair....Morinaga-san..."
(You stopped it on purpose....!)
I looked at Morinaga-san, in tears and he smiles back at me.
Morinaga: "Don't get me wrong. You see, if I don't ask you now, I won't have the chance to ask later."
(Hm...Mm....)
The hand that had been touching my waist, started stroking lovingly, and I couldn't help but rock my hips unintentionally.
Yoshino: "This is....embarrassing..."
Morinaga: "Well then...
(Oh, I'm still at his mercy....)
Embarrassed, I finally gave up.
I started talking about how I was worried after hearing that anyone could be the winner in the raffle, and the winner could ask on a date with Morinaga-san.
I also revealed that I asked God to let me win the first prize.
Morinaga: "You're really cute."
Yoshino:"...Don't laugh."
Morinaga: "I'm not teasing you. I'm just really happy."
Morinaga-san stroked my cheek and my eyes softened....
Morinaga: "But Yoshino, in such case, you should turn to me, not to God. Because it's my job, not anyone's, to grant your request."
(Morinaga-san....)
Morinaga: "And don't worry. If someone asks me to do something like that, I'll let him off with a no. I know it's a bit unfair, but I'm not saying I'll not do anything. I've already got the most important woman in the world, it's only natural, right?"
(Nn....)
The sweetness of his voice as he says it gently makes my heart tighten.
Yoshino: "So I'm the only one who can go out with Morinaga-an, right....?"
Morinaga: "Of course. And going on a date... You're the only person I'd want to do these kinds of things with."
I repeated his words in a low voice and hugged Morinaga-san, tightly.
(That's great.... I told Morinaga-san and in no time I had nothing but happy feelings.)
Morinaga: "...Did I reassure you a little?"
Yoshino: "Yes, thank you! This way, even if I don't win the first prize I won't be jealous of anyone else. Maybe I won't even have to draw lots at all."
Morinaga: "You're of those people who lives in Kamakura, so you have the right to draw. The pride of the Kamakura Shogunate, it's the best thing that's happened all summer. Come and try it for yourself."
Yoshino: "Sure. I'll try it to test out my luck."
I replied with a smile-- and Morinaga-san suddenly looked into my eyes.
Morinaga: "....Yoshino. What do you want me to do if you win the first prize? What's your wish?"
Yoshino: "Well....I'd like to enjoy our time together. Morinaga-san, you're always surrounded by so many people. So I will ask you to let me have you all to myself."
Morinaga-san laughed aloud.
Morinaga: "I hope you’ll really wish that when you win."
...............
On the day of the festival---
(Wow, what a busy street.)
The town, decorated with festive decorations, was crowded with spectators.
On a special stage, Morinaga-san and his friends were just finishing their performance.
Samurai 1: "Ah! Morinaga-sama, Yoshino-san is here."
Yoshino: "Morinaga-san, Thank you for your hard work."
Morinaga: "Yeah.....!"
Looking back at him, Morinaga-san's eyes widened and then he immediately smiled.
Morinaga: "My god, you tied your hair up today. It's nice and cool. It suits you. Oh, by the way, did you draw the raffle? It's about to close."
Yoshino: "About that...."
Samurai 2: "You're just in time. Go on, take one."
When I picked up one from the raffle boxes offered to me, I was a little nervous.
(But I'm fine.)
I looked up at Morinaga-san and his kind, narrowed eyes reassured me.
Samurai 1: “Um.... Actually, we’re sorry.”
Yoshino: “Huh? What for?”
Surprised by the sudden apology, a few of the people swept their eyes apologetically.
Samurai 1: “We were there when Morinaga-sama was planned to be the first prize for the raffle.”
Samurai 2: “Later we realized that if a woman who liked Morinaga-sama drew the first prize, what would she wish for.... You guys have just recently started dating, and we should have stopped them.”
Samurai 3: “But this one time we couldn’t. But we support Morinaga-sama and Yoshino-san from the bottom of our hearts!”
(Eh)
Standing next to me, Morinaga-san laughs out loud,
Morinaga: “Thank you for worrying about me. But that’s okay. I’ve already talked to Yoshino about it, right?”
Yoshino: “Yes!”
Samurai: “! What.....”
Morinaga-san and I chuckled, though we apologized for the puzzled looks on everyone’s faces.
Morinaga: “Well, I’d better get ready for the result announcement. Will you come to see the results?”
Yoshino: “Yes! I want to see if I win the first prize!”
Morinaga: “I’m looking forward to it too. Win the first prize and keep me to yourself.”
As the sun went down, the excitement of the festival covered the town of Kamakura.
Morinaga: “Well, here we go! It’s time for the Kamakura summer lottery, which our main attraction.”
(Finally....!)
The festival site was the most exciting place of the day.
Thanks to the support of the Shogunate, the prizes are all very generous.
(We all want to be challenged, don’t we?)
Many people who have won the raffle were happy with their prizes, while some were disappointed.
The tension and excitement grew with each successive announcement of the third and second prizes.
Morinaga: “And now, for the most awaited one! The first prize! I’ll grant the person who wins first prize, one wish. You can ask me any favor you want...-----”
Premium END // Epilogue
I loved it! I loved every bit of this story. So who do you think will win? Will it be Yoshino? or some random woman? or a kid? or Yoritomo-sama?.....you’re all free to guess.
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Spring Anime 2017 Part 1: woke up late
This time I prepared so I could get to the procrastinating right with the first post! Yay! Let’s get this show on the road.
See also:
• spring anime 2017 part 2: girlfriendship is magic
• spring anime 2017 part 3: comfy and easy to wear
• spring anime 2017 bonus round: things you already knew were good
Alice to Zouroku
So get this, a pretty girl with psychic superweapon powers escapes from a lab she’s been in her whole life and now has to adapt to the real world with the help of a guy she stumbles upon, all while being chased by her superweapon former friends. But in a shocking twist, this is actually better than Elfen Lied! Not being written by someone as brutally incompetent as Lynn Okamoto is a start, but the real change here is that our heroine is less murder machine and more genuinely cute, and more importantly the guy she ends up with is not a harem ringleader dorklord, but a grumpy elderly florist. Yeah, we’re skipping the recent trend of dadfeel anime and diving headfirst into granddad feels (I don’t know if aging otaku are quite old enough to fully self-insert yet, but the same principle applies). It’s a low hanging fruit, but that’s what makes it work; a deliberate, contemplative pace and delightfully whimsical music by TO-MAS also help. So far, so good, were it not for the fact that this is only one aspect of the show. Of course a show like this would have an action half as well, and that one’s pretty garbage. Not only is it directed with zero impact or excitement, it also relies on horrible CG a lot - I really don’t want to be reminded of Hand Shakers this quickly again, thank you very much. Plus, it runs with a Alice in Wonderland metaphor, which is baby’s first literary reference and doesn’t bode well about the intellectual ambitions of the project. So we have one half that’s admittedly effective, but also very predictable and which desperately needs to go somewhere to pay off. The other half just plain sucks and has little chance to improve. I think I’ll give this one a few more chances to sort out its priorities, but it’s definitely not a sure thing.
Busou Shoujo Machiavellianism
A cocky guy walks into a school full of pretty girls with weapons who have managed to sissify all the dudes by forcing them to crossdress. He then proceeds to troll them with his rugged charm. You know, it’s really not that easy to offend me but damn this show is trying. Apart from bottom-tier harem crap setup, this show also looks like ass and is tremendously boring; a few well done action cuts do not in fact excuse “fights” that mostly consist of exposition about special attacks, or terminally uninspired direction. Macchiavellism is the worst of shounen fightmens crossed with the worst of harem LNs, plus some of the worst jokes bad anime comedy can come up with. It’s not even audacious enough in its badness to boggle the mind; I could watch this if I was interested in adding another 1/10 to my MAL, but that’s about all I can appreciate about it.
Frame Arms Girl
Speaking of unholy combinations, here’s Gundam Build Fighters x Rozen Maiden x Strike Witches: A girl stumbles into a sentient mecha musume model kit that spends its time explaining the technical details of model building to her and attracts other model kits that want to fight. It’s an ad for model kits, what do you expect. There’s no characters, the plot is utterly uninteresting, the action’s bad, it looks subpar to bad, and the only high point is how brazenly it reads to you from the manual.
Gin no Guardian
Here’s your latest Chinese webcomic adaptation from your friends at Haoliners Animation League (Shanghai) Inc., whose output has been asymptotically approaching the quality level of a bad Japanese cartoon for years now: Closer than ever, but still not quite there. Maybe they should stop picking bad webcomics with incomprehensible nonsense plots as source material, just sayin’. So this is about a dude who beats up CG zombies in the spirit world but the actual story is how he got there? Or something? It manages to look barely alright and even has some visually striking design work, but its half-length run time prevents it from forming any semblance of coherence and I’m not about to ask for further clarification.
Oushitsu Kyoushi Haine
In a vaguely 18th century Germanic kingdom, a grown ass man with the body of a ten year old and a snarky disposition is hired to become the tutor of an instaharem of fabulous princes. I really don’t get who this is for; obviously the harem is straight out of a PSP otome dating sim, but it’s lacking the obvious self-insert dimwitted main girl, and no, it isn’t gay romance either. Even though it’s a comedy, that aspect does not seem to be played for outright parody. The source material is running in GFantasy, a shounen title (but not one as specifically elementary schooler-focused as Jump, it also carries fujo favorites such as Black Butler). Dubious provenance aside, Haine is moderately funny if nothing else, mainly due to the deadpan reactions of the main character to these ridiculous dreamboats. It just also drags more than a little, with long conversations that aren’t very entertaining all the time. It’s watchable compared to a lot of the stuff out this season, but I remain unconvinced.
Rokudenashi Majutsu Koushi to Akashic Records
After Macchiavellism already obliterated the battle harem bingo, here’s our next winner. The setup’s more or less the same and in some respects it’s even more formulaic (the school is actually a magic school for magic people, princesses, duels, &c), but Akashic Record is not quite as odious simply by focusing on being a comedy first and foremost and pulling that off at least on a technical level - it has good visual execution and comedic timing. The question is just how much credit you want to give it for that when the jokes themselves still suck, and that’s of course ignoring the entire setup being Light Novel as all fuck. Kinda seems familiar actually, because this is not entirely unlike to what KonoSuba did to the isekai genre, and people keep trying to tell me that that was totally great. Well, go watch this one then, motherfuckers.
Sagrada Reset
But there’s always the other kind of light novel, the one where high schoolers talk about life, people and the world. Think Bakemonogatari or OreGairu. Sagrada Reset wants a slice of that pie and starts by stealing the magical realism conceit from classic™ visual novel Wind ~A Breath of Heart~: There’s a remote town in Japan where everyone has superpowers, but if they leave the town they instantly forget about it. Oops, i guess I just spoiled Wind’s midgame, but I have to since Sagrada Reset puts this stuff right upfront because it has to discuss technicalities (at length) to make its plot work. Yeah, that’s how I like my magical realism, thoroughly explained and conceived by people who should write wikis, not fiction. There’s a girl who can reset time, but only once per arbitrary period of time and also including herself, which means she only finds out she already did it once it doesn’t work again. So that’s pretty useless, except there’s a guy whose superpower is having his memory unaffected by this. They have to work together to solve... some problems, I suppose. This whole idea seems to have potential in a JoJo subplot sort of way, but it’s completely sunk by the way the thing is written, since apparently the writer has never met a human being in his life. It’s entirely made of these pseudo-deep highschool stoner philosophy conversations presented in a lifeless inflection by people who stand around like robots on battery saver mode. This seems to be intentional (at least the term “robot” is thrown around a couple of times, which is certainly ominous), but it also makes for an excruciating and interminable watching experience.
Sakura Quest
Since Sakura Quest was announced, I have been gleefully throwing water on the hype of people who expected this to be the next Shirobako. After all, how likely is it for lightning to strike twice, especially considering Mizushima is not in the director’s seat? Surely it was all just wishful thinking, I want a S2 of Shirobako as much as everyone but I just don’t trust anime. Well consider me fucking told, since apparently among the parties wishing for more Shirobako is P.A. Works, and unlike the anitwitterati they can make it happen. The actual brand name seems to be reserved for a Mizushima project, but I would have no trouble believing that Sakura Quest is a spinoff about Aoi’s sister in the boonies; Shirobako Sunshine, if you will. The initial setup is mirrored here; Yoshino is not a young professional starting her dream job, but a young professional unable to score a dream job (or any job) so she settles for a random one she’s very skeptical of, but will undoubtedly learn to love. Apart from that, well, it’s Shirobako: The positive tone, the large cast of likeable oddballs, the relatable writing about post-highschool problems, and it even looks completely identical. I’ll still be realistic about it: Shirobako isn’t great for what its ideas were, but for how thoroughly it delivered in the long run, and this is by no means guaranteed to also happen with Sakura Reset Quest. For an episode 1 though, it’s like a dream come true, and P.A. are setting themselves up for seasonal double domination with this and Uchouten Kazoku S2.
Souryo to Majiwaru Shikiyoku no Yoru ni
Enough gushing, here’s 5 minutes of porn. Okay, it’s josei porn so there may still be gushing involved if you know what I mean, nyuk nyuk. Er, sorry about that. Sooooo there’s a sexually frustrated woman who meets her school crush who’s now a priest, and then they fuck. With a staff made up mostly of (non-josei, but hey) hentai OVA veterans, there is really only one way this could go. I appreciate the brazenness as usual, but I really don’t know how much steamy harlequin romance tailored to TV broadcast standards I want to watch.
Tsugumomo
I’ve seen some warnings about Tsugumomo based on its source material which is a manga with 1. a very high level of art quality and 2. content that has been described as “makes To-Love Ru Darkness look family friendly”. This may explain why it has not been licensed. It doesn’t explain why this first episode is fairly tame though; sure, it’s very much an ecchi comedy, but you get those from time to time and Tsugumomo is not any more raunchy than what I’m used to seeing (and it accomplishes this even without obvious BD-advert censoring). That incidentally also removes any reason to watch it: The plot is as basic “guy gets magical girlfriend for purposes of fights and/or walking in on her naked in the bath” from 15 years ago as they come, and it’s suspiciously well animated, but not well enough for that to be a selling point. Maybe it will get real skeevy eventually, I won’t be around to find out.
Warau Salesman NEW
Warau Salesman starts strong with ultra cool, Saul Bass-inspired opening credits, but that’s about all it has to offer. It’s based on a “black comedy” manga from the 60s by one of the Doraemon authors, and oh boy can you tell. Not only are the character designs 60s-tastic (so at least the Osomatsu-san fujos can schlick to something while they wait for the S2 of that), but so are the sensibilities: The titular salesman goes around tempting frustrated office workers with doing something moderately irresponsible, such as drinking in your lunch break or spending above your means, and then ruins their life when they actually do it. It’s like Twilight Zone written by your HR department. In the 60s. This stuff would have been outdated even in 1989, when it was animated for the first time – hence the “NEW”. I don’t know, it just seems mean-spirited, obvious and pointless, and most importantly I put the “black comedy” in quotes because in addition to not being very black, it’s not funny in any way, and unlike regular anime comedy I can’t even see what’s supposed to be funny.
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