Did you enjoy watching Shiro being chased around the city last week? Well, now you get to watch him get chased around his school’s campus! Hooray! Plot development! Then when they’re done, everyone’s sits down to a nice, square meal. What’s even the plot, you ask?
First, we had two clans clashing for reasons unknown. Then we have a bunch of people chase the protagonist around for two whole episodes because they think he might’ve killed a man. That’s it. That’s the entire plot thus far. Here, have an ED full of a naked girl in different poses.
Notes:
• So Kuro rescues Shiro… just to kill him.
• Something’s just anatomically off with these characters.
• Hey, remember being a kid and getting one of those sticky hands from a coin-operated machine? That’s what Kuro’s special power reminded me of. Why did I even bring this up? What else am I going to talk about? There’s still nothing in the anime to discuss.
• It’s a good thing our characters always conveniently find empty places in a giant, bustling city to fight. Wouldn’t want to get innocent people hurt or anything.
• Death by animu — so tragic.
• That’s a cool effect for a door. We see the same effect throughout the rest of Shiro’s home, but at this point, what I really need is a story, not more cool shit.
• Then all of a sudden… naked cat girl. I like how the camera lingers on her crotch for a good two or three seconds. No hair in all the right spots, guys! It still amazes me that people continue to think that the male gaze is nothing more than a buzz word when there are blatant examples of it all around them.
• Anime logic: a cat’s six or so teats somehow transformed into two massive breasts. Oh yeah, I should totally suspend my disbelief for this particular aspect!
• Good thing Neko’s collar grew in size along with her. Wouldn’t want the poor girl choking right after the transformation. And yes, her name is Neko. The incredibly pale dude with white hair is Shiro. The guy with long, black hair is Kuro. And you’re watching Blue K.
• Kuro finds his way to Shiro’s school, katana and all. For a giant school, it sure lacks any sort of security. No one seems remotely nonplussed by Kuro’s bizarre appearance or behavior though ’cause it’s anime.
• Aaaand of course: a brave, powerful swordsman is turned away when he sees a naked catgirl because “How indecent!” Why, I never! Her nakedness is assaulting the core of my very existence! The nerve! Pish posh! Flim flam! Okay, I get that Kuro’s exceedingly old-fashioned. A good example of this: him deeply thanking Shiro’s classmate for helping him find Shiro. A bad example: oh no, a naked girl!
• Giant catsquatch… just because.
• Another chase sequence… to close out the episode. Welp, that was a good use of time.
• Then out of fucking nowhere, it turns out Kuro’s been carrying around cooking utensils and spices. What the fuck?
• That’s it? Kuro’s just going to cook them dinner? Why? Because he saw Shiro helping a girl pick up tangerines and that proves his innocence? Honestly, I wouldn’t put it past this anime that this is actually the case.
“No one seems remotely nonplussed by Kuro’s bizarre appearance or behavior though ’cause it’s anime.”
Except the part where they did. People were staring and snickering, and whatshername was all “lol wtf?”
Seriously, I don’t really get why of all the anime out there people pick on K as if it was the only show of its kind out there. This is not a “smart” anime, it’s the sort of show that you watch with your brain turned off.
So they’ll snicker, but the fact that he has a lethal weapon on him doesn’t matter?
When have I ever said K was the only one of its kind? If you’ve got a beef with other people, take it up with them. I dislike a lot of shows. K’s not unique.
I didn’t know having a plot would make it “smart.”
They were getting ready for a school festival last episode if you paid attention, they probably thought he was just walking around with a prop sword. And Kuro is a very gullible and easy to manipulate person if the beginning with the sob story didn’t tip you off. He slowly began to doubt Shiro was a murderer from the moment he said he was innocent. Not to mention they then spent half a day chasing each other and then they were all tired and hungry and said fuck it lets eat. I’m pretty sure you are taking this show too seriously.
I’m pretty sure you’re taking me too seriously. Look, it’s a dumb anime, so I’m making fun of it. If I thought this anime was so smart or meant to be taken seriously, why would I mock it? Just think about that for a second: “I’m taking this anime so seriously that I’m going to do a pisstake!” How does that even make sense? Do I take harems seriously because I mock them? Then you guys come out of the woodwork to say K’s too dumb to even criticize, but still feel the need to refute me point-by-point. The irony is delicious.
Give that bishie some cooking skills. Bishies love cooking skills.
Pro tip: add paprika to everything.
Ahh “Paprika”. Now THAT is an anime that knows how to balance style and substance.
…Also has a significantly larger color palate.
It was just so damn pointless and stupid that I couldn’t help but love this episode. Yes, it was probably the dumbest thing I’ve seen all week, and that’s counting GIrls und Panzer, but there’s no way you could pull all that shit together and not have that be the intended effect.
Intended or not, it’s just them running around though. If there were crazy shit happening, at least it’d be interesting for me to watch.
K won me over when it smashed Yata with a moe anime billboard. There’s no way I can dislike this show despite some pretty ridiculous logical leaps after they pulled that stunt. It’s most like that Guilty Crown post you wrote, except the two episodes of K have been more fun than the entirety Guilty Crown.
You guys are nuts.
Yeah. I’ve pretty much accepted that.
Oh and, “nonplussed by Kuro’s bizarre appearance or behavior though ’cause it’s anime.”
Well, there’s an upcoming school festival with people in maid costumes…or what if they just assumed Kuroh just had chuunibyou? That’d be hilarious.
Well, it doesn’t really matter to me whether or not you guys enjoy K the same way I enjoy Guilty Crown. Hey, to each his own, right? I just don’t see it. One billboard falling on a guy and a few giant cats isn’t enough to convince me that the show is very fun.
Is ‘chuunibyou’ a real thing now (like hikikomori) and not just something a KyoAni series made up?
Were those past two episodes one increasingly long and rather Blue/Green Scooby Doo chase?
According to other bloggers, a fun Scooby Doo chase.
I’m very fond of the characters and I have a feeling it’s because I read the prequel manga. That said, I can see why you don’t see the fun in it and that’s okay. Maybe I’m just glad they’re subverting expectations.
Chuunibyou has been around long before the KyoAni anime made its debut but yeah it seems to be making itself some sort of buzzword now. Just as keikaku?
My beef is that they’re just running around. I don’t even know anything about them or personalities. They’re just running around! They didn’t run once, they’re running for the second episode in a row. Why didn’t they just adapt the prequel manga too? Right now, K just feels like a coherent Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere.
That’s nuts. Everything’s nutty today. Apparently a kid just having a little bit of imaginative fun is considered a mental condition now.
Chuunibyou isn’t like how Kyo-Ani depicted it, though; it’s something along the lines of “teenagers acting like know-it-all-adults” (see http://forum.thefreedictionary.com/postst29720_Japanese-Slang–Chuunibyou.aspx)
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I have no idea what you’re talking about. In fact, I never know what you’re talking about.
Pity the big budget wasn’t put to good use by hiring better writers; they probably pumped it all into the animation (no matter how unbelievably asinine the show was, the quality of animation is exceptional; one of the best in recent years, even).
Some people were drawing parallels with Durarara!! (multiple characters, street gangs, etc.) before this aired, but I have a feeling that even the worst episode of Durarara!! is going to have more plot that the whole of K put together. Tragic.
Considering that anime is such a time constrained medium, unlike novels, this is really a bad approach and bad writing. What did we find out after two episodes? NOTHING. Are these guys (+ a cat) magicians? Espers? Aliens? Kungfu experts? Mutants?
The floral door and walls are fancy. So are my desktop wallpaper.
This show also has some really inappropriate music. It’s like songs just play in the background with no regard to whether they fit the context of the scene. That song playing in the fight scene was just pure what the hell.
It’s weird too because another commenter brought up the fact that there’s a prequel manga that actually introduces you to the characters. Uh, why wasn’t that made into the first pair of episodes? Why do we want to watch people chase each other instead?
There is a writing principle that you should start something off with excitement so as to make sure to hook the viewers attention. maybe they took that way too far
Yeah, you’d think the first episode could have served this purpose alone.
I’m so glad I found your blog, I was afraid I’d suddenly slipped into an alternate universe where fun was synonymous to nonsensical. The first episode was random, the second looked like it was plotted out on toilet paper during a bathroom break by a die-hard catgirl freak. The main character just waltzed back to campus without caring one bit that the whole city just saw a clip of him wasting a guy. And then he had dinner. With the guy who was supposedly trying to kill him. Without even discussing first why his cat suddenly turned into an otaku’s wet dream. Wow.
And this whole hot mess has already acquired a rabid following, courtesy of the catgirl again, and their only beef with the series is that it’s “too gay”. Whatever that means.
Oh, you know what it means. What if you’re busy trying to fap to the naked catgirl, then it cuts to Shiro blushing around Kuro? Try as you might, your left hand just can’t close the window fast enough! I’m afraid you’ve caught the gay. It’s a common anime-watching injury hazard.
The story is pretty straightforward and doesn’t take a genius to figure out.
Nobody said the story was hard to figure out?
It’s pretty easy to figure out?
It’s just that it doesn’t have noticeable plot after 40 minutes.
Yep, it’s easy to figure out there is still no plot.
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Another ‘Smartest Anime I had ever seen’ XD