{"id":8328,"date":"2020-08-23T16:19:18","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T16:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=8328"},"modified":"2023-05-28T14:50:34","modified_gmt":"2023-05-28T14:50:34","slug":"tejina-senpai-itai-no-wa-iya-nano-de-bougyoryoku-ni-kyokufuri-shitai-to-omoimasu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/tejina-senpai-itai-no-wa-iya-nano-de-bougyoryoku-ni-kyokufuri-shitai-to-omoimasu\/","title":{"rendered":"Tejina Senpai &#038; ITAI no wa IYA nano de BOUGYORYOKU ni KYOKUFURI Shitai to OMOIMASU."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The half-length episode series <a href=\"https:\/\/myanimelist.net\/anime\/38610\/Tejina-senpai\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Tejina Senpai<\/a> starts out as an amusing enough version of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/ueno-san-wa-bukiyou\/\" title=\"Ueno-san wa Bukiyou\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Ueno-san<\/a>, only to run out of steam partway through and lean ever more heavily on lewdness as a crutch. The joke variety is also lacking and the additional two members that eventually get added to the club don&#8217;t really help much in that department (unless you&#8217;re a fan of inexplicable pseudo-incest).<\/p>\n<p>Also a comedy, <a href=\"https:\/\/myanimelist.net\/anime\/38790\/Itai_no_wa_Iya_nano_de_Bougyoryoku_ni_Kyokufuri_Shitai_to_Omoimasu\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Bofuri<\/a> takes the virtual fantasy land action-adventure aspects of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sword_Art_Online\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Sword Art Online<\/a> and combines them with a somewhat random style of reaction humor focusing on <a href=\"https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/MarySue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Mary Sue<\/a> parody. Before the guild gets formed most of the amusement comes from the sharp contrast between Maple&#8217;s appearance\/personality and fondness for unintentional brutality&#8230; and this part of the show works fantastically. Eventually however it leans too far into the &#8216;overpowered main character&#8217; shtick to the point event developments become tiresome. Remarkably high-quality action scenes throughout though.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the danger of parody: You run the risk of becoming the very thing you&#8217;re trying to laugh at.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Boufuri:<br \/>\n<span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"Episode 2 &lt;img src=&quot;https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Bofuri-2.gif&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; \/&gt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Bofuri-2.gif\" rel=\"shadowbox[sbpost-8328];player=img;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Bofuri-2-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-8330\" \/><\/a><\/span><span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"Episode 8 &lt;img src=&quot;https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Bofuri-8.gif&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; \/&gt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Bofuri-8.gif\" rel=\"shadowbox[sbpost-8328];player=img;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Bofuri-8-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-8331\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The half-length episode series Tejina Senpai starts out as an amusing enough version of Ueno-san, only to run out of steam partway through and lean ever more heavily on lewdness as a crutch. The joke variety is also lacking and the additional two members that eventually get added to the club don&#8217;t really help much in that department (unless you&#8217;re a fan of inexplicable pseudo-incest). Also a comedy, Bofuri takes the virtual fantasy land action-adventure aspects of Sword Art Online and combines them with a somewhat random style of reaction humor focusing on Mary Sue parody. Before the guild gets formed most of the amusement comes from the sharp contrast between Maple&#8217;s appearance\/personality and fondness for unintentional brutality&#8230; and this part of the show works fantastically. Eventually however it leans too far into the &#8216;overpowered main character&#8217; shtick to the point event developments become tiresome. Remarkably high-quality action scenes throughout though. That&#8217;s the danger of parody: You run the risk of becoming the very thing you&#8217;re trying to laugh at.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[454,467,16],"tags":[172,369,180,174,193,185,28,184,187,175,241,244,64,183,62,412,411,182],"class_list":["post-8328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-summer","category-2020-winter","category-anime-related","tag-action","tag-adventure","tag-comedy","tag-comic-adaptation","tag-crunchyroll","tag-ecchi","tag-fantasy","tag-finished","tag-funimation","tag-incomplete-source","tag-novel-adaptation","tag-parody","tag-romance","tag-school-life","tag-science-fiction","tag-series","tag-televised","tag-virtual-world"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}