Love Getchu 04-09
The episode that began and ended this run are playing on the growing love triangle/other geometric shape that's forming here. Yurika and Momoko have too strong of a friendship and the voice acting focus is strong enough that I don't think the love triangle will ever overtake it, but it's a tricky business with these things. I'm always at least somewhat wary where, in a series where romance is only an element, that it may someday overwhelm the story. That hasn't happened yet.
The middle batch of episodes was a nice round of focus episodes for everyone who isn't Momoko. It's all things I've seen in anime before, including an inter-company relay race (not quite to iM@S scale). The crazy car chase in 4 wasn't quite to Polyphonica levels, but it was up there, if more consistent. Momoko's habit of giving people advice based on SkaLove is cute, to the point where Amane's already making jokes about it in episode 8. And while I've never seen Master of Mosquiton, the segment with the girls dubbing over a parody of it in 9 made me curious.
Episode 6 and 8 both stood out, for different reasons. Tsubasa's amusement park date had all the usual hijinks, but it was also a stealth yuri episode. So close to turning Lambda Eight into a garden of purity. I do like the contrast of a girlish voice actress who wants to play boy parts and a boyish voice actress who wants to play girl parts. Nothing unusual, but the show's got enough charm that it can pull it off.
And then there's episode 8. Amane's dad is more or less Ken Matsudaira.
He also voiced by Norio Wakamoto and, in a more current at the time reference, brings the ninjas from Ninin ga Shinobuden with him. The ninja fun house was enjoyable, but the presence of Wakamoto the man bumps this episode up at least a notch or two.
Speaking of Amane, that she succeeded in the special promotion in episode 9 because of technical things and not because of passion is most likely an accurate representation of the voice acting industry, as accurate as an anime based on a cellphone game can be. There's room for passion, and I love it coming from Momoko, but it's not going to win her any prizes here.
Also, it's only episode 9. There's a whole cour to go.
The episode that began and ended this run are playing on the growing love triangle/other geometric shape that's forming here. Yurika and Momoko have too strong of a friendship and the voice acting focus is strong enough that I don't think the love triangle will ever overtake it, but it's a tricky business with these things. I'm always at least somewhat wary where, in a series where romance is only an element, that it may someday overwhelm the story. That hasn't happened yet.
The middle batch of episodes was a nice round of focus episodes for everyone who isn't Momoko. It's all things I've seen in anime before, including an inter-company relay race (not quite to iM@S scale). The crazy car chase in 4 wasn't quite to Polyphonica levels, but it was up there, if more consistent. Momoko's habit of giving people advice based on SkaLove is cute, to the point where Amane's already making jokes about it in episode 8. And while I've never seen Master of Mosquiton, the segment with the girls dubbing over a parody of it in 9 made me curious.
Space Sheriff Dandy?
Episode 6 and 8 both stood out, for different reasons. Tsubasa's amusement park date had all the usual hijinks, but it was also a stealth yuri episode. So close to turning Lambda Eight into a garden of purity. I do like the contrast of a girlish voice actress who wants to play boy parts and a boyish voice actress who wants to play girl parts. Nothing unusual, but the show's got enough charm that it can pull it off.
And then there's episode 8. Amane's dad is more or less Ken Matsudaira.
Speaking of references.
He also voiced by Norio Wakamoto and, in a more current at the time reference, brings the ninjas from Ninin ga Shinobuden with him. The ninja fun house was enjoyable, but the presence of Wakamoto the man bumps this episode up at least a notch or two.
Speaking of Amane, that she succeeded in the special promotion in episode 9 because of technical things and not because of passion is most likely an accurate representation of the voice acting industry, as accurate as an anime based on a cellphone game can be. There's room for passion, and I love it coming from Momoko, but it's not going to win her any prizes here.
Also, it's only episode 9. There's a whole cour to go.
