Yes you have gained weight and you are also now a girl, but hey at least you you will be getting more female attention from now on…
Sorry this is so very late but this month reality has been wreaking terrible vengeance on me at work and at home. So it seems that the boys and girls of gg have branded Kampfer as the shittiest thing they have ever subbed, but me thinks their memory be too short. In any case gg being honest aside Kampfer seems less like a poor man’s Queen’s Blade and more like a satire of magical girl at least to me any way. Instead of having a little girl who seeks to better herself and her love life we get a boy who chases a lesbian, such is this boy’s sorry state that his powered up form is a girl. That alone says plenty of the decrepit state of the Japanese male and the weaboos who want to be them. At any rate Kampfer is the perfect way to maximize the seiyu talent they brought on board and they will not let the viewer forget it. I am of the opinion that any fan of the cast should tune in and endure the pain to hear them SHINE IN THE NAME OF ZEUS. Any one who refuses will have theirfanboy/fangirl license revoked and are unworthy of Zeus’ light and are the kind of sick cowards who afraid of paper cuts. I confess I do take an inordinate amount of sadistic glee at reading how many braincells people lost as a result of this it is my sincere hope thatgg solidify their reputation for trolling by helping Kampfer kill braincells and kill more braincells. Ah yes a great cry went out into the blogoshpere as is if a great many people suddenly cried out in pain and then suddenly fell silent…I think something wonderful has happened! Long live Brokeness! Be it broken sexual preferences or BROKEN MINDS! Kampfer shall SMASH EVERY BRAIN CELL INTO ATOMS!
While this show is decidedly fan servicey I was surprised by the utter lack of panty shots to go with it and withing the series itself the only henshin sequence was that of the dude which does mitigate the fappability for most I suppose but increase exponentially for some. As a veteran of all of Ranma 1/2 this genderbend is nothing new, and also since THAT is supposed to cover as many trap centered animu series as we can I have been volunteered to slog through this, as Calawain and ExecutiveOtaku pay good money for all of my weaponry and medical benefits.Also Impz is still desperately trying to earn enough money to marry 13Sugars so it basically leaves me as I have little appreciation for fear and seem to be impervious to pain so long as there is yuri, to spread the gospel of trappiness . At any rate I did like the fluid combat though it isn’t top level stuff yet, but at least there is promise that things might get better once the Blue Team loses their rookie status. I have to commend them for going with a Red vs. Blue dynamic and hope that there will be a most interesting debate about how to name vehicles be it warthog or puma. While ghostlightning thought the references were lame I have to disagree since 0080 is but a dim and distant memory for most fans these days and they also inserted a Turn AGundam reference as well as a Planetes one too. Given how the staff seems to have decent taste in Gundam (0080 was good but I worry about this lack of 8th MS Team and 0083 love) I hold out hope that they are not totally incompetent.
At any rate given how much magical girl anime I have watched of the the course of my miserable existence Kampfer does use many of the same tropes, and subverts them like in the case of those animal sidekicks. Hell even the love interest being in love with the alter-ego is dragged out for a beating as Sakura seems to have the hots for Natsuru girl-type and thinks the male type is a sack of potatoes. The male lead while nominally male lives in a SUGOI pink house and while it does have that harem animu setup as a guy only Akane is showing any interest in his male form, but Akane is also bi and likes Girl-type Natsuru too. While we have seen many of those gut wrenching boy on top of girl scenes before I think they played it for laughs when the book was getting all the action, even the class president called them out for their behavior, and most delightfully of all was that Akane tried to throw Natsuru under the bus as a lecherous bastard. I agree that on the surface it is nothing new but I do believe that Nomad is trolling mahou shoujo and harem at the same time. Admittedly most magical girl shows have reasons for fighting, but not all of them are good and seem more like fetch quests anyways, and here it is simply cast aside with no reason being given other than they must all fight because they are elite. Guess what, it works well enough since the winner getting some sort of prize has been done to death and why bother coming up with a shit justification when you can have fighting for the sake of fighting, at least that is a little more honest than crap like World Peace.
I have even found my OTP in AkanexGirl-Type Natsuru as Akane is Bi and therefore awesome. Maybe it will be like Wagaya Oniari-sama in that Girl-Type Natsuru becomes the predominant form. Either way this is THAT and thus for better or worse this is a keeper.
Calawain’s Cross-dressing Corner
Calawain hereby accepts Akane as Lord and Savior. I hereby accept AkanexGirl-type Natsuru ship as my OTP.
This is one of those series whose story premise sounds much more retarded in animated form when you have to listen to the seiyuu tell it compared to glazing over it in manga or book form. I mean, the story is really stupid, girls (or Natsuru) become Kampfer and they have to fight! In addition, Maria Inoue sounds really horrible voicing a guy, not believable in the least. She sounds great as the female Natsuru, but wow it sounds really bad in “male” form.
That being said I still enjoyed the episode generally, surprisingly enough Hocchan pulled off Akane’s batshit insane Kampfer personality wonderfully. We had a decent amount of action (I can see where they sent the budget from the second half of Yoku Wakaru) and lots of cute bishoujos to go around. Plus lots of German words (German always sounds wicked in militaristic settings), although probably used incorrectly. Good thing I don’t know German and won’t care. I’ll be watching this show, and perhaps leaving my 2 cents when Crusader makes posts on it.
Yes YURI HAREM!
ROFLMAO Hetero non-harem.
Well let’s hope she’s not using them to make sausages…
I have never seen some one so happy about morning wood.
Even his house is girly.
Why so he can sit in the back and give up his seat for you?
So this is who is responsible for all this…
Assuming you believe in Zeus of course…
Kampfer Braclet POWER!
It’s Sailor Qo’noS!
You are also both on the Blue Team but don’t let that stop you.
If only Girl-type Natsuru had two bazookas, a shotgun, and a chain mine amirite ghostlightning?
Kudos for staring at her ass.
Don’t hesitate she has a suitcase bomb!
Oh so it can tell time too…
It’s Revolutionary Girl Natsuru! If only she had a sword…
Compromising position is compromising.
So sad she did not participate as well…
Wow they actually bothered to learn some geography.
No you call it a Permit! A PERMIT THAT MAKES YOU A ONE MAN ARMY!
Especially losers.
If only he made a snarky remark.
Love at first ride I bet…
Why yes her headband does magically disappear, just like your weakness and your pants.
Akane likes big butts and she cannot lie. You other guys can’t deny!
And so womanly…
Oh the Red Team, Mikoto is on it along with her good friend Donut…oh and welcome to the Blood Gulch Front.
You don’t even have to listen carefully…
FUCK YEAH NAME DROP.
Umm can I get that English please?
Dang Turn A, Planetes, and Tytania?
Oddly enough this is how weapons are often described.
It was a pistol!
I have never been so interested in reading before…
Well it’s not like they dragged it out.
But what about you ma’am?
Way to throw him under the bus Akane.
Look who are we going to believe the cute one or the guy?
BUT TOTALLY AWESOME!
Hello what have we here?
Yeah it’s amazing how clean the girl side of the school is…
Wait so they filter the air there?
NO PANTSU NO PANTSU!
Well I am sure there is someone out there who wants to be abused by a Yui Horie sound-a-like…
Wait why are we on the roof?
Psst. Akane opportunity is knocking.
During your time as a girl your body will feel things it has never felt before…
You find that PMS is NO JOKE.
I won’t lie this is going to hurt…
It’s that time of month…though a month has not yet passed.
Ah the Undiscovered Country, oddly enough this is about the same quality as Shatner’s performance in Star Trek VI…
So please do go on
Man that is like the Cadillac of Toilets.
Akane is getting cockblocked…
She’s just not into you…but she is in to the other you.
Let’s face it you weren’t much of a man to begin with…
Beggars cannot be choosers.
Sound advice is sound!
Indeed let Boy-type Natsuru feel teh pain of unrequited love, Akane will love Natsuru either way, though she does prefer Girl-type Natsuru
I was going to call her V but that works…
Triggering a flag eh?
I cannot help but smile when Killer-type Akane shows up.
Precisely…now for a bit of fun eh?
Among other things yes…
I surprised she did not cop a feel.
LET”S BE FRIENDLY!
…
She said, “LET’S BE FRIENDLY…”
Akane knows that Girl-type Natsuru seems to attract more attention…
Wait isn’t it the other way around?
Ah HA! So the villain finally shows herself!
Give it up lass, Sakaura might as well mean treachery now…
Akane is also mildly Yandere too…
If only one of them also wore loose socks…
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Wow lol. Brilliant animation, but I’m almost certain I know the ending. Like most other series of its kind.
wow….very brilliant huh….:D
To hell with Nomad!!!
They are the worst anime studio ever
Making another shitty anime ehh…i sympathized with seiyuu that working in this anime coz they fooling themselves with unfunny seiyuu jokes in episode 1.
I love the genderbending concept to bits, but if this is an excuse for some yurishit, then no sir. The only way for this show to redeem itself is if Natsuru uses his female alter ego as a platform to get the other girls into bed, where he changes back to his male form and show them the pleasure of being cummed inside.
Also, hearing my Ranka voice a lesbian is pretty effin’ depressing.
The magical bracelet can also transform a guy’s uniform to sērā-fuku.
This show is a wonderful wonder.
First of all, the art is simply brillant. It takes a renowned studio to manage such emptiness in the backdrops, character stills, and generally to-the-point faces, without looking like your show was done by some Paint amateur. I mean, you at least needed half the budget from another show to cover for all the things you didn’t use, all the staff you didn’t pay, and most of all, all the artistic cells in your viewer’s brain that you killed in less than 25 minutes (they owe me some insurance for this. I DEMAND REPARATION).
Then, you have the story. A bad plot made EVEN WORSE animated. That right there is amazing. But then it’s also a plot with yuri that you can’t like. That right there is even more of an amazing feat.
And finally. The voices. Definitly the worse harem-male voice EVER. EVER. It can only take skill to burn my ears in such a painful fashion (if you’ve read Riki-oh, that torture where the bad guy pours some hot stuff through a hole in your body has nothing on Natsuru’s voice). And let’s not forget the “animal sidekick”, Harakiri Taigah, that also deserves some honors for worse voice acting ever (I could only picture a fat hag that happened to clean the studio’s toilets when they recorded the voice and found their original seiyu had gone missing, probably after reading the script). Plus having the main character hanging his talking plushy by his guts and not being even remotely funny is a miracle to behold.
I happen to be quite fluent in german, but I won’t say anything. I mean, what’s the point ? The author probably woke up one day after a hard drinking night, and thought his dream with german speaking chicks was so cool, so he used it. I mean, listen to some german pop and say it sounds even remotely sexy. Yeah, right.
On that same vodka abusing night, he probably devised the scenario, through flashbacks of his last lan-party where they happened to play way too much Unreal Tournament. Blue team wins.
I thought Sekirei was a pretty lame show, with pretty bad fanservice, but it actually was watchable, and, as I look back on it fondly in retrospect, I’d even say it was decently pretty okayishly good. The animation was nice, the story not that bad, you could even like the character.
In the end, I’d say, as a gundam totally-not-liker, that your review didn’t include enough description of the latest mech introduced in the series, and how you so love to playmo.
Also, it’s not even a trap show. I mean, a trap show must have some tension (and i’m not talking about pants there), some issues must rise, some conflicts must sprout, it must give birth to a whole new character. I mean, take Maria Holic ; the trapness of Mariya is inscribed, deeply mowed into her very character. Here you have Boy A that suddenly becomes Girl B, and dude that’s so funny, I mean, so funny. Plus the way he transforms is way past convenient (I mean, they should have added a timer too, like some platform game, You will transform in 12.87 secondes, counting down). It even CHANGES HIS FREAKING CLOTH.
Overall I’d say it’s wonderful how TV can air a show that a bunch of 10 years old could have produced.
BUT IT HAS A GERMAN NAME SO THAT AT LEAST MEANS YOU’VE GOT SOME CULTURE. RIGHT ?
Personally, after the first episode, I was convinced that this will be one of my favourite shows this season.
Straight forward premise, cute girls, light-hearted mood, a few neat subversions, and gender bending, lulz.
I hope this show will be as good as Juuden-chan was.
And don’t over look 29 Days Later, guys.
“I have been volunteered to slog through this, as Calawain and ExecutiveOtaku pay good money for all of my weaponry and medical benefits.”
In case anyone ever questions whether their tax dollars are being wasted, read this article and be reassured. Hell, I’ll even pay a little more for this show to be blogged.
The post for this was plenty of fun to read. One of my favourite moments had to be when right after calling her Akane-chan Natsuru gets a gun pressing against his face
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Should be a good series for some laughs.
Well watching the show killed atleast 50% of my brain cells, looking at the pics probably killed another 10%.
On another note did anyone realise that Akane is a terrible shot. Did she take shooting lessons from Anew and team killing lessons from Jhida-kun. I don’t mind her learning to be a team killer, that’d just mean one less gender bending loser anime lead(Sure they’re an endangered species but no one will mind if Natsuru bites the dust) but i’ll be damned if I let Akane be as terrible of a shot as Anew.
Also The highlight of this episode would have to be the toilet, I’d love to take a……..I’ve said enough. Anywho Crusader I maybe be ablt to put up with this shows if I were a 10th of a Masochist that you are but regrettably I’m not. I wish any who watches this the best of luck, although you won’t need it seeing how you’ll me squirming in pain and pleasure while watching.
‘Cause remember kids! Mindless fighting and nonsensical terminology only work in series with drills and mecha!
@ Chez
I so disagree with you. I love NOMAD especially when it comes to their Galaxy Angel. Anyway, you’re right about the voice for the male lead. It was terrible. They should have hired an actual mail seiyuu then just stick with the female seiyuu.
@Chez
Wait I thought the worst studio was Gonzo…
@Shin
No PAIN NO GAIN! Besides Ranka’s attraction to my Alto-hime was most certainly due to hime’s rather womanly charms…So it if you want to succeed I suggest you start taking notes.
Also stop discriminating Ranka will never forgive you if you get in her way!
@KayDat
It is so very magical…
@Nemo
Let the HATE FLOW THROUGH YOU!
@ToastCrust
It is what it is and makes no attempt to be anything more.
@ExecutiveOtaku
What kind of idiot would think that military spending is wasteful? We only take jobs no one else would take…
I hope your contribution to the combined federal fund will be a little bigger now…
@FlareKnight
You have to admire how straigh forward Akane is…
@TorontoSyrup
I am sure Akane is a decent enough shot, against Natsuru Girl-type though Akane was probably staring at her ass…
Trap Harem leads are an endangered species, the funny thing is he’s not really getting all that much love and what little he is getting isn’t the kind he wants…
Hey what doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger. So now you know and knowing is half the battle.
@Matt
Oh and don’t forget GI Joe.
@Silver
Ah Galaxy Angel it seems like that was so long ago, but I don’t think Nomad was involved with any of that they did do Rozen Maiden which was pretty funny.
Hey maybe they plan on having mostly Girl-type Natsuru anyway…
Well from the start the concept that boy turns into girl is bit weird but I’ve crossed on somth like that when I was little (Rannma- or somthin) so dunno…
Anyway I like the animation ; voices ,well I can’t say for sure but I think there is a female seiyuu for that boy so it don’t pass too much BUT characters seem interesting ^^ there is a classic tournament issue (+world danger) ,simple categorization red-blue but 3 types of firghets with the most interesting fighting types,styles (I’m fan of guns, so nice ><
@Chez Have you ever seen Rozen Maiden?
@Crusader
I think Broccoli did Galaxy Angel. And yes, GONZO is quite possibly the worst anime studio ever. Then again, these things are made by committee so it depends on more than Studio.
No lie, I’m just gonna continue watching for kampher Natsu. 8D
At least GONZO uses funny CGs.
Boy turning into girl? That’s stretching the limits of creative license, not to mention reading credulity. Let’s not even get into the psychological issues of the writers. It does stand out though…