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PUNI PUNI POEMY

Genre: Ecchi/Mature

How much seen: the whole thing (subbed)

What it's about: Magical girls. Sort of. It's from the same people as Excel Saga, but on even more crack. Hell, it's on more crack than Dragon Half. It's on more crack than Dragon Half and Shinesman combined.

Or perhaps it's just that it's on the bad crack. Whatever you might say about Dragon Half and Shinesman - and heaven knows there's plenty to say - they came across as mocking from love. Puni Puni Poemy appears to have gotten thoroughly exasperated with Magical Girl shows, and set out to eviscerate them. The Tomoyo-equivalent is perfectly willing to rape Poemi. The Syaoran-equivalent is an alien and doesn't give a shit about Poemi - not just faking, really doesn't. There are lots and lots and lots of boob jokes, and nakedness jokes, and sex jokes - not in the same way as Lingerie Senshi Papillon Rose, where there were sex jokes that they seemed to assume would turn you on, but in a vaguely scornful, 'nobody wants to see that' sort of way.

Some of the jokes are clever. This is a two-episode OVA, and it bounces off the fourth wall like it thinks it's a pinball game. But exasperated though I might've become with the Magical Girl genre after this exercise, I still preferred them to this.

Overall opinion: Maybe if I'd been the sort of person who enjoyed Excel Saga? As it is, I'll pass.

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