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Jul. 30th, 2011 06:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennariaKYO KARA MAOU!
Genre: Comedy and Parody
How much seen: two episodes (subbed)
What it's about: Boy gets thrown to another world, finds out he's supposed to be their king. And by 'thrown,' I mean 'gets flushed down a toilet, because apparently the magical method for him to go from our world to the world of the Mazoku involves water, and unfortunately for Yuuri, the water that first time was the water where a bunch of bullies were about to give him a swirly.'
Poor Yuuri. I'm pretty sure he wins for Least Dignified Method Of Transit To A Magical World Ever.
Unfortunately for Yuuri, he follows that up by stubbornly spending pretty much the entire first episode refusing to believe what's going on. His three theories have a certain amount of merit (that this is an amusement park, that he's secretly on Candid Camera, and that this is all a dream), but nonetheless, I have to say, if I were picked up by a flying skeleton? I would be giving serious thought to alternate realities. Yuuri does change his mind, but we don't get to see it happen. It just sort of does.
The second episode is where things really kick into gear. There's not only quite a lot of examples of how Social Rules In Shin Mazoku Really Aren't The Same (which include but are not even vaguely limited to the infamous 'a slap means a marriage proposal, regardless of gender'), we finally get to see the major reason why Yuuri might, in fact, be a good king, despite him being sort of a doofus. Yuuri is the reborn soul of the Maou - and however young and earnest Yuuri might be, the Maou is a badass with a keen sense of justice and the magic to enforce it.
Overall opinion: This is a cardinal example of where sometimes, you just need to keep going. The first episode alone left me sorta 'meh' - but by the end of the second episode, I was definitely curious. The BL subtext (which isn't all that 'sub') doesn't hurt, but the key point is really that the hero pulled it together. Anime has far too much fondness for the doofus hero. Bah, I say. Humbug.
*
"So," says Kay, reading through my backlogged posts. "'Go do magical girls,' huh?"
"Yup."
"You do realize that --"
"Yup."
Fortunately, she didn't ask me for candidates. That could've gotten awkward.
Genre: Comedy and Parody
How much seen: two episodes (subbed)
What it's about: Boy gets thrown to another world, finds out he's supposed to be their king. And by 'thrown,' I mean 'gets flushed down a toilet, because apparently the magical method for him to go from our world to the world of the Mazoku involves water, and unfortunately for Yuuri, the water that first time was the water where a bunch of bullies were about to give him a swirly.'
Poor Yuuri. I'm pretty sure he wins for Least Dignified Method Of Transit To A Magical World Ever.
Unfortunately for Yuuri, he follows that up by stubbornly spending pretty much the entire first episode refusing to believe what's going on. His three theories have a certain amount of merit (that this is an amusement park, that he's secretly on Candid Camera, and that this is all a dream), but nonetheless, I have to say, if I were picked up by a flying skeleton? I would be giving serious thought to alternate realities. Yuuri does change his mind, but we don't get to see it happen. It just sort of does.
The second episode is where things really kick into gear. There's not only quite a lot of examples of how Social Rules In Shin Mazoku Really Aren't The Same (which include but are not even vaguely limited to the infamous 'a slap means a marriage proposal, regardless of gender'), we finally get to see the major reason why Yuuri might, in fact, be a good king, despite him being sort of a doofus. Yuuri is the reborn soul of the Maou - and however young and earnest Yuuri might be, the Maou is a badass with a keen sense of justice and the magic to enforce it.
Overall opinion: This is a cardinal example of where sometimes, you just need to keep going. The first episode alone left me sorta 'meh' - but by the end of the second episode, I was definitely curious. The BL subtext (which isn't all that 'sub') doesn't hurt, but the key point is really that the hero pulled it together. Anime has far too much fondness for the doofus hero. Bah, I say. Humbug.
*
"So," says Kay, reading through my backlogged posts. "'Go do magical girls,' huh?"
"Yup."
"You do realize that --"
"Yup."
Fortunately, she didn't ask me for candidates. That could've gotten awkward.