Various thoughts on a variety of topics.
The characters from the smartphone game of the same name try various methods to increase its popularity, attempts which result in failure more often than not.
Half gag comedy (with an ever-shifting style of humor; 4th-wall breaking, situational, reaction, parody, etc.) and half literal advertisement featuring a notable streak of ecchi.
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Baramon High School is an all-boys private school for the elite. Having just transferred in, Yoshiki Maeda finds himself suddenly encouraged by the principal to fall in love with one of the other students.
A deliberately no-budget parody of the BL genre. There’s barely any animation, the character design is extremely simple, and the comedy is absurdist in nature.
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Sawako Machida loves books and trivia, wanting to be seen as a knowledgeable intellectual. The only problem is she can’t be bothered to actually read any books and so just makes things up as she goes along.
A fast-talking comedy heavy with literary references that are often explained with a large paragraph of text in the middle of the screen. The humor is centered on Sawako’s pretensions and the extreme passion the other students in the library have for literature.
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The five main characters of Glass no Kamen are transplanted into a modern-day school setting, where they seek to enliven the mundane through passionate performance.
A gag-comedy parody of the Glass no Kamen manga series. While the gags are centered on random school related topics, they all feature slightly exaggerated versions of the characters’ normally over-dramatic behavior. You’ll likely need to have either read the manga or watched one of the various Anime adaptations to get much out of it.
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While originally I had no intention of ever playing this game, when I went to try out the PC version of Agarest 2 I found that you could import a Zero save to get some free items.
Since the GOG version of the game does not appear to have access to any of the DLC (and I obviously can’t import a PS3 save file) getting a Zero clear save appeared to be the only way to cut down on the early grinding. Which gave me an excuse to stop ignoring it.
Honestly I wish I kept ignoring it.
While it does show you exactly what the characters in Agarest 2 were talking about during the artifact and Chaos/Summerill conversations (and you get to see an early version of Eva) it turns out that nothing of note was omitted from those conversations. When you combine that with the large amount of required grinding and ‘unwinnable’ battles that you’re supposed to lose… well, there really ends up being no reason whatsoever to play it.
I’ll just leave these here though in case anybody else wants to see for themselves:
Cheat Engine Table (GOG Version)
True End Post-Game Save (GOG Version)
After Toyohisa Shimazu is critically wounded while holding the rearguard against the Eastern Army, he finds himself suddenly transported to a different world. There he meets others like himself, transplants from Earth called Drifters who have been recruited to fight a war against an implacable foe who wishes to eradicate all human life.
A mix of hyper-violent action scenes and picture-drama style comedy skits. While it involves characters from a wide variety of time periods, it mainly depicts warfare out of the medieval and Sengoku eras.
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Continuing along the road to Nationals, the Kitauji school band must overcome several new personal challenges that threaten to tear it apart from within.
Much like the first season this has a large amount of relationship drama lightened by comedic bursts arising from Kumiko’s personality. Which may be something of a shock if you’re coming into this straight from the movie version, which downplayed the characters’ personal issues.
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Keijo is a professional sport similar to sumo wrestling played on floating platforms in which girls use their butts and breasts to knock their opponents either to the ground or into the water. Having just graduated high school, Nozomi Kaminashi seeks to rise to the top of the Keijo rankings for the large cash prizes.
This is a hybrid show. One part sports shounen and one part ecchi comedy it combines serious training, over-the-top attacks and abilities, and a ton of fanservice.
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Wanting to be more like her mother, Kohana transfers into the Hoshinomori School of Magic Arts. There she meets six boys, each with their own artistic specialty, who all take an interest in her unusual talent for arrangement and cheerful smile.
A school life harem with a comedic style closer to that of a gag comedy. It doesn’t actually begin to focus on romance until around the eighth episode, instead mainly being concerned with resolving the characters’ personal issues and getting everyone together to organize a successful school festival. It’s also not much of a fantasy show; up until the twelfth episode the ‘magic’ on display only exists to visualize the artists’ skill level.
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After leaving Kashan Fortress, while on the road to Peshawar the protagonists stop for the night and make camp. Having to patrol the area and not trusting Arslan to stay away from danger, his guardians leave him with Gieve… who turns out to be something of a danger himself.
An Anime-original comedic supplement for the main series. The focus of the comedy doesn’t require any particular knowledge of the characters, so it may be possible to watch this as a stand-alone.
Following the events within Sindhura, a banquet is held to thank Arslan and his companions for their assistance in resolving the inheritance issue.
This OVA also consists of pure comedy, which puts it in a difficult position. You can’t watch it as a stand-alone because it’s directly tied into the franchise’s plotline, yet it would also be difficult to watch during the parent series due to the drastic difference in tone.
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