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jennariaGOLDEN BOY
Genre: Ecchi/Mature
How much seen: one episode (subbed)
What it's about: So there's this guy on a bicycle, see...
Seriously. The opener to the first episode of this series makes it look like it's secretly a sports series, dwelling lovingly on the hero's bike. Then he gets hit by a car, and the driver of the car gets out, and she's wearing this thing that's bright red and just barely covers half her boobs, much less the rest of her, and oh, yeah, there's the ecchi.
He winds up getting hired by the driver's company (a computer programming company) - as a janitor, not as anything else. Not that this stops him from fantasizing. Which in turn leads to him getting fired for the first time. He gets hired back, and talks big about how quickly he learns, and makes notes in an ever-present notebook (which, from what we see of the notes, could be as much about the bra sizes of the all-female employees of the company as anything else). And then comes the night when he's running late, and decides to be Efficient, and turns off the power to the servers.
Yeah. This is the early 90s. There weren't the omnipresent backups we have now, and people did not really know better. The program that the company has been working on for the past three months? Gone. The hero gets fired with extreme prejudice, and I was practically cheering. In every situation where we'd seen him, he'd come across as a coward, a pervert, and an idiot.
And then, in the last five minutes, it turned out that he hadn't been a coward, and he wasn't an idiot. In a week's time, he managed to write a replacement program for the company - and make it better than the original. And it turns out he used to be in law school - Tokyo University, no less - and dropped out because he'd learned everything.
...yeah. The turnaround is enough to give me mental whiplash.
Overall opinion: to quote Kay, "So, Goldenboy! On the surface, fucked up! Below the surface, even more fucked up!" The creepy gender subtext is bad enough even without the hero's pornographic fantasies. I will pass.
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Mmm, dinner. Kay has marinated hot dogs and grilled them. The result is wonderful.
Genre: Ecchi/Mature
How much seen: one episode (subbed)
What it's about: So there's this guy on a bicycle, see...
Seriously. The opener to the first episode of this series makes it look like it's secretly a sports series, dwelling lovingly on the hero's bike. Then he gets hit by a car, and the driver of the car gets out, and she's wearing this thing that's bright red and just barely covers half her boobs, much less the rest of her, and oh, yeah, there's the ecchi.
He winds up getting hired by the driver's company (a computer programming company) - as a janitor, not as anything else. Not that this stops him from fantasizing. Which in turn leads to him getting fired for the first time. He gets hired back, and talks big about how quickly he learns, and makes notes in an ever-present notebook (which, from what we see of the notes, could be as much about the bra sizes of the all-female employees of the company as anything else). And then comes the night when he's running late, and decides to be Efficient, and turns off the power to the servers.
Yeah. This is the early 90s. There weren't the omnipresent backups we have now, and people did not really know better. The program that the company has been working on for the past three months? Gone. The hero gets fired with extreme prejudice, and I was practically cheering. In every situation where we'd seen him, he'd come across as a coward, a pervert, and an idiot.
And then, in the last five minutes, it turned out that he hadn't been a coward, and he wasn't an idiot. In a week's time, he managed to write a replacement program for the company - and make it better than the original. And it turns out he used to be in law school - Tokyo University, no less - and dropped out because he'd learned everything.
...yeah. The turnaround is enough to give me mental whiplash.
Overall opinion: to quote Kay, "So, Goldenboy! On the surface, fucked up! Below the surface, even more fucked up!" The creepy gender subtext is bad enough even without the hero's pornographic fantasies. I will pass.
*
Mmm, dinner. Kay has marinated hot dogs and grilled them. The result is wonderful.