Starletka
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Valkyrie Drive -Mermaid-
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Franconator
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In a better world and a saner universe, this would have been the animated lovechild of Lord of the Flies and 1984; a searing commentary on gender politics, a nuanced take on society, and a heartfelt coming-of-age teenage drama. But no. Instead, we get boobies. Which I normally wouldn't be complaining about, mind. But does it sound like I'm complaining?
Color me surprised also that an actual story's starting to take shape now. Like yeah, it's still very much about the boobies and the kissing, but it's trying to get somewhere. I don't know if I like where it's going yet, but at least it's going.
OH MY GOD THE GOVERNUEBEREX REALLY WAS A GIRL OH HOLY SHIT OH who am I kidding, I think we all already knew about this the minute she showed up anyway.
Real talk, this might be an exposition episode I actually did like, mainly because THE ABSOLUTE WORST PARTNER IN THE WORLD didn't get to do much except BE SHADY AS ALL HELL, TOSSING HER POOR 15-YEAR-OLD PARTNER ASIDE FOR SOME MAN - ER, GIRL - ER, OVERLORD COSPLAYER. Our main duo's relationship is built on DECEPTION and LIES and TREACHERY I cannot believe she would toss her away for the first person she thought had a penis.
Everyone else just be standing there and wanting all the smoke, but bystander girl second from the right is still not over the fact that the girl in front of her at the line took the last cup of her favorite yogurt.
"REALLY? IN FRONT OF MY SALAD?!"
Either their boobs are actually water buoys or these prima donnas just don't wanna get them wet.
At this point, I'm surprised Charlotte doesn't already have one of her harem ladies to hold her parasol for her.
"YOU ANARCHIST SCUM"
But man, anarchist calls you out for being boring and lame and you immediately call her a terrorist. This is why you have no friends.
Real talk, this might be an exposition episode I actually did like, mainly because THE ABSOLUTE WORST PARTNER IN THE WORLD didn't get to do much except BE SHADY AS ALL HELL, TOSSING HER POOR 15-YEAR-OLD PARTNER ASIDE FOR SOME MAN - ER, GIRL - ER, OVERLORD COSPLAYER. Our main duo's relationship is built on DECEPTION and LIES and TREACHERY I cannot believe she would toss her away for the first person she thought had a penis.
Everyone else just be standing there and wanting all the smoke, but bystander girl second from the right is still not over the fact that the girl in front of her at the line took the last cup of her favorite yogurt.
"REALLY? IN FRONT OF MY SALAD?!"
Either their boobs are actually water buoys or these prima donnas just don't wanna get them wet.
At this point, I'm surprised Charlotte doesn't already have one of her harem ladies to hold her parasol for her.
"YOU ANARCHIST SCUM"
But man, anarchist calls you out for being boring and lame and you immediately call her a terrorist. This is why you have no friends.
And the exposition keeps on coming and it keeps on coming and it keeps on coming. LADY LADY! Finally! I'm such a fan.
LADY LADY! The adults are in the house now, baby!
Finally, a thing I have in common with our main girl.
Kind of a lot of Cowboy Girl fanservice here which... well, I'm not exactly throwing a bitchfit about it, but they really could have done without it, you know? Not when LADY LADY is right friggin' there.
LADY LADY! The adults are in the house now, baby!
Finally, a thing I have in common with our main girl.
Kind of a lot of Cowboy Girl fanservice here which... well, I'm not exactly throwing a bitchfit about it, but they really could have done without it, you know? Not when LADY LADY is right friggin' there.
Color me surprised also that an actual story's starting to take shape now. Like yeah, it's still very much about the boobies and the kissing, but it's trying to get somewhere. I don't know if I like where it's going yet, but at least it's going.
Starletka
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Charlotte be out there living the dream life
At this point, I'm surprised Charlotte doesn't already have one of her harem ladies to hold her parasol for her.
interregnum
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No, that doesn't have any real significance to what I'm going to say. I just wanted to make a pun.
That said, she is friends with Apron MILF. Which, in fairness, is all the friends I'd need.
Still, it's considerate of Charlotte to break character to save the animators some hassle.
Well, that and keeping them just above the water line would make it easier for the nipples to harden from the relative coolness above the hot water. Which is just common courtesy.
Because, while I thought the plot stuff was pretty good (and the final few episodes get more than just pretty good, for the most part), it's also confusing as hell, if you think about it for more than a minute.
Given that this was clearly meant to survive on the strength of its attention to nipple detail, it would have done better to keep certain elements of the story vaguer than they did. ("We were exiled because we're dangerous, and they send us food because they know it's not our fault" would be all the context we'd need. Everything else would just be natural, character-driven fallout from being stuck on the island.)
I mean, I give it a pass because the sexytime stuff is so utterly without shame, but the point still stands.
I know, right? She can muster a de-wonder bra that turns L-cups into svelte masculine pecks, but not a retort to the inevitable descension into chaos intrinsic in anarchism stronger than "muh terrorism"? Definitely not friend material.
That said, she is friends with Apron MILF. Which, in fairness, is all the friends I'd need.
It's striking, isn't it? They should be clambering to do it. Possibly not even with their hands.
Still, it's considerate of Charlotte to break character to save the animators some hassle.
Taking into account all other bosom-centric scenarios, in this series, I assume it's probably because their breasts do not operate under Newtonian laws of physics.
Well, that and keeping them just above the water line would make it easier for the nipples to harden from the relative coolness above the hot water. Which is just common courtesy.
Wait, are you...taking a jab at Pigtails Protagonist's seeming disloyalty to her partner or mock-gasping that the girl who was forced into a situation she absolutely wants no part of (including how she isn't actually into girls) would somehow trade the situation she doesn't want for one that immediately seems more in line with what she actually does want? It's hard to tell, when addressing this show.
I don't know about a better world, but a more consistent one, certainly. Or, rather, it would choose to either be a sexytime "lesbian" fantasy show or one that played with the elements you listed, rather than predominantly being a sexytime show that is apparently set in an apocalyptic dystopia that demands physical, mental, societal, and emotional adaptation on the part of the girls who end up on the island.
Because, while I thought the plot stuff was pretty good (and the final few episodes get more than just pretty good, for the most part), it's also confusing as hell, if you think about it for more than a minute.
Given that this was clearly meant to survive on the strength of its attention to nipple detail, it would have done better to keep certain elements of the story vaguer than they did. ("We were exiled because we're dangerous, and they send us food because they know it's not our fault" would be all the context we'd need. Everything else would just be natural, character-driven fallout from being stuck on the island.)
I mean, I give it a pass because the sexytime stuff is so utterly without shame, but the point still stands.
Starletka
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The Lady/Lady duo is actually kinda interesting. Even when they're dummy thick and their boobers clapping keep alerting the guards.
Well, okay, some plot for a change. So there are more islands out there, huh.
Well, okay, some plot for a change. So there are more islands out there, huh.
9
At least the new girl has normal boobs. And, hey, we finally got some action that wasn't titty fucking.
Mei Fon wears boob padding when in disguise btw.
See, that's what you get for having a humongous cleavage.
Mei Fon wears boob padding when in disguise btw.
See, that's what you get for having a humongous cleavage.
Franconator
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That was actually meant to be a joke, but since you put it that way, I'm gonna have to sit down and think about all the nasty implications of what I just said. You know what, you're right. Now I feel a little sorry for our MC. Just enough to lay off the dumping partner joke, but probably not enough to lay off her completely.
Interesting times on Mermaid Island. I don't know why our main duo ever wanted to leave. Look at all the things they're missing out on!
Look at this new Arm getting the royal treatment straight away instead of being fed to the dogs like what happened the first time we saw a visitor drop by. Look at her getting a fancy schmancy new nickname in Charlotte Scarsen Shamisen Charlatan's fancy schmancy team while the rest of the lackeys get called boring lame-o nicknames like Moranis and Agnes and Eyepatch Bert.
The difference between the real leaders and the pretenders: a desk. And flags. Never forget your sovereign island nation's flags.
Yo, what?
Finally, someone who says it with the right spelling!
I know she meant to say this and I know she was 100% sincere about it, but this is still the funniest thing I've ever heard anyone say on this show.
Look at this new Arm getting the royal treatment straight away instead of being fed to the dogs like what happened the first time we saw a visitor drop by. Look at her getting a fancy schmancy new nickname in Charlotte Scarsen Shamisen Charlatan's fancy schmancy team while the rest of the lackeys get called boring lame-o nicknames like Moranis and Agnes and Eyepatch Bert.
The difference between the real leaders and the pretenders: a desk. And flags. Never forget your sovereign island nation's flags.
Yo, what?
Finally, someone who says it with the right spelling!
I know she meant to say this and I know she was 100% sincere about it, but this is still the funniest thing I've ever heard anyone say on this show.
interregnum
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See, I though it was a joke. And found it funny. But then I started thinking you might have been serious, but then also that you had to be making a joke, but then...again, this show scales sarcasm in ways it shouldn't.
It's harder to be distracted by the nudity when you're not watching it anymore, I guess.
Well, I suppose there's no helping it. I'll just have to watch it again.
No--don't try to stop me. I've done this to myself.
...holy crap, yeah, what the hell are those flags?
See how well that whole setup worked? I never even questioned it!
I have to imagine this was them trying to say "idol hands are the devil's playground."
That said, there might be an ongoing problem with bank-robbing sloths on the the island, which our protagonist duo simply never lays
Running gag comes back.
Love it. 10 points.
interregnum
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Did they? I can't believe I don't remember that. You'd think I'd have had a chart tracking this kind of thing.
I do remember them being very inconsistent with Pigtails Protagonist's bosom, but not anyone else's. And I am traying to rack my brain.
...
I said, I'm trying to rack my brain.
Starletka
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Glasses, too, and Charlotte this episode.
interregnum
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Ah, so it didn't so much escape my notice as feed me more of what I wanted, thus overriding my observation skills. That makes sense.
Starletka
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12
And thus begins the last overdrive.
Overall it was fucking awful, lazy fetish porn, disrespecting lesbians, women, and honestly the entire human race. And I'll never forgive them for ruining the bifaunxen. But at the same time it wasn't as bad as it should have been by all accounts, and Citrus still stands as the worst GL I've seen so far, so... 4/10 (mostly because it's porn that doesn't pretend to be more that porn, and somehow it doesn't feel right to give it a 0/10 when it delivered what it said out to be). But I didn't like the show.
And thus begins the last overdrive.
And now it's full hentai. Disgusting.
I was hoping they'd die at the end.
I was hoping they'd die at the end.
Overall it was fucking awful, lazy fetish porn, disrespecting lesbians, women, and honestly the entire human race. And I'll never forgive them for ruining the bifaunxen. But at the same time it wasn't as bad as it should have been by all accounts, and Citrus still stands as the worst GL I've seen so far, so... 4/10 (mostly because it's porn that doesn't pretend to be more that porn, and somehow it doesn't feel right to give it a 0/10 when it delivered what it said out to be). But I didn't like the show.
interregnum
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Definitely don't watch the specials, then.
TheSMoresAwakens
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Episode 1
This is the most hilarious shit I’ve ever seen in my life.
This is the most hilarious shit I’ve ever seen in my life.
TheSMoresAwakens
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Episode 2
My final grade for this show will depend heavily upon whether or not that pink haired girl gets flayed alive, Bolton style.
My final grade for this show will depend heavily upon whether or not that pink haired girl gets flayed alive, Bolton style.
AardvarkRex
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Ah this one... the most amusing thing about it is that it was picked up by Funimation. Not just picked up but also dubbed by them too. The same Funimation that dropped Interspecies Reviewers. Because logic.
interregnum
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It only gets better.
Wait until you hit the part where the show suspects all but the most ardent viewers have jumped ship.
Aw, I love Charlotte. But it's early days, yet. She might grow on you.
TheSMoresAwakens
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I'll give her until the end of episode 12, but then I'm dropping this anime.
randomredneck
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Lesbians, man. They sell better. Go figure.