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You could have so much fun if you wanted to be an evil anime company, Marin and I have discovered. The previews on Betterman #2 (what we were reduced to watching, since FMP was too long and Marin’s headache would reduce her enjoyment of FMP too much—she doesn’t care for Betterman enough to mind enjoying it less, I guess) included Saber Marionette J to X, but the title was written Saber J to X. I guessed that most anime fans were confused by “that M-word,” so Marin decided the new title should be Saber Doll J to X. We proceeded on a downward spiral: Sword Doll J to X, Sword Doll J. Tox.

Also, Haibane Renmei has no official English translation (it’s sold here as “Haibane Renmei”), but we figured they have halos, so they must be angels. In the show the Haibane (ones with halos and wings) are segregated from the humans into one town (of sorts)—a sanctuary, if you will. So the show’s title should be Angel Sanctuary. But there’s already an anime with that title, so we’ll call it Angel Sanctuary 2.

Boy, could we piss off some otaku.

Tonight’s Betterman also featured the best comedy of the show so far. Man-eating worms were attacking Our Heroes, who fortuitously discovered a certain scent that repelled the worms. The trouble arose in creating enough of the scent to take care of a large room: they (again, fortuitously) had a machine that would replicate smells, but—as the worms closed in—the machine first required 500 yen (“If 500 yen is what it takes to be a hero, that’s a price I’m willing to pay!”), and then it took three minutes to replicate. Their facial expressions as these two revelations were made, one after another, were priceless.

 

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