Tsuujou Kougeki ga Zentai Kougeki de Ni-kai Kougeki no Okaasan wa Suki desu ka?

M.I.L.F ISE-KAI

Well anime comes with wild ideas and goes full throttle with the concept and Tsuujou Kougeki ga Zentai Kougeki de Ni-kai Kougeki no Okaasan wa Suki Desu ka? is no different. As much as Tsuujou Kougeki ga Zentai Kougeki de Ni-kai Kougeki no Okaasan wa Suki Desu ka? has an alienating premise and the "wild ideas" diverting people away from this anime BUT LA saw something with this anime, a core concept at least all the while adding comedy and parodying the isekai genre all in one.

Well let's get the "alienating premise" problem out of the way...mainly in the fact that the titular character ... of the "mom" or in this case Masato Oosuki's mom Mamako voiced by Ai Kayano gives off a blatant incest-y tone and all the embrassing things that Mamko gets into especially since it's fanservicey and how clingy Mamako is to Masato is becomes a major problem with the anime and it doesn't go away. Lastly would be Masato's behavior at the start of the anime, where he's extremely stingy towards his mom, sure he DIDN'T want all this but it's his mom like what the fuck man..thankfully he does get better...or self-aware of the situation he gets and he well...just gets used to it.

BUT aside from that, Tsuujou Kougeki ga Zentai Kougeki de Ni-kai Kougeki no Okaasan wa Suki Desu ka? does give us some of a refreshing take on the isekai genre, mainly on the fact that...hey A PARENT along with the main protagonist gets transported into another world or in this case a beta test of busted MMORPG mainly focused on moms or familiar bonds (but mainly moms). Through this the main cast mostly have mommy issues that latter joins Masato's party and goes through the beta test all the while running gags such as Mamako 2 hitting everything. Wise voiced by Sayumi Suzushiro is a proto-Megumin and Aqua where she's basically useless but highly proficient in magic...just she finds ways to have 0 MP to cast anything, she's essentially the physical butt monkey of the cast and like Masato has a mom in the game where it becomes the first arc of the anime focusing on Wise's mom being WAAAY to self-adsorbed with herself and thus Wise, Masato, Mamako and Porta have to "defeat" her and make her a better mom. Ohh Porta voiced by Sayaka Harada the teams items master and joins Masato's party very early in the anime...not much is known about her besides that. The last party member joining is Medhi voiced by Lynn a white mage healer and with her helicopter mom...Medhimama who strives to do WHATEVER it takes for Medhi to become number one...thus helicopter mom and yeah Medhi gets an arc because of this. Lastly is Masumi Shirase voiced by Satomi Arai, a weak GM who gives Masato's party "quests" that more or less gets them to "fix bugs" within the game in which Shirase can't...due to her dying constantly.

So the central core concept of this anime becomes obvious...parental issues, that of selfish parents like Wise's to for LA, the much more relatable helicopter mom and her goal of wanting her daughter to become number one no matter the cost, which is something most Asian kids have dealt with or still is, Tsuujou Kougeki ga Zentai Kougeki de Ni-kai Kougeki no Okaasan wa Suki Desu ka? DOES show these concepts quite well and the setting makes sense. What doesn't is the retributions to some of the "mom villains" of this anime..mainly Wise's as her retribution was kinda a slap to the wrist than anything else...like seriously, she made Wise's life hell and THAT's her consequence.

The comedy comes in and really where the comedy shines is in it's parody of the isekai "game genre" as well as how the characters function. Running gags aside just the main cast's general dichotomy when it comes to their game elements though sometimes repetitive for LA like Wise losing MP or unable to cast anything, Medhi's dual personality seeping out, Mamako 2 shotting everything, Masato not able to fight because of Mamako, it's how the game world reacts to Masato's party or more or less Mamako's is quite funny let alone how the main cast DO have good chemistry with one another at that too.

The animation done by JC Staff gives us...well in all honesty..a self-awareness even towards it's animation due to the fact the setting of this anime is in a beta test MMORPG thus the background characters are intentionally derp and low quality. As for the character designs, they were decent for a fantasy medieval-ish setting and thus goes on with the character costumes. LA doesn't know the character design animation seemed to have this slight detail to the character eyes...like a certain intense bloom to their irises or something, exotic at least. Overall the animation done by JC Staff was good and somewhat self-aware about it in a charming way instead.

The voice cast has some veteran and rookie seiyuu's in their roster, the veteran's like Ai Kayano as Mamako to Satomi Arai as Masumi to Lynn as Medhi (who has a sorta playing against the type at that) and BOTH of them did great in their respective roles. As for the rookie's we have Sayaka Harada as Porta, Sayumi Suzushiro as Wise (doing a playing against the type from her previous role as Uruka from Bokutachi wa Benkyou ga Dekinai). The only voice actor LA really didn't care about...was Haruki Ishiya as Masao...to be expected as he really didn't get to do much and was pretty much being the straight man to the rest of the cast but he was still...ehhh..ok. Overall the voice cast was great especially Lynn, Satomi Arai, Ai Kayano and Sayumi Suzushiro.

LA thinks the only major flaw LA saw was to the near end of the anime with the only non-mom villain of the series and focusing on the constant running gags of not of not the main cast but the minor cast constantly doing their gags while the main cats ar in the background but especially from the main villain it got old fast but LA doesn't think to tell you it....yeah THAT running gag. Yes the entire concept of the mom 2 hitting things does feel like a running gag in itself but actually Mamako more or less talks the mom villains into submission more than dealing with the villain head on so it has that for a defense. Lastly would be main cast's running gag and how they stretch it out, to be honest yes they do, but they don't as the new situations placed them in gives it a new spin one way or another and sometimes it's not even based on their running gag. The ONLY running gag that sorta dulls it's welcome quickly is the intentional fanservicey moments mostly involving Mamako because OF COURSE IT DOES...

Tsuujou Kougeki ga Zentai Kougeki de Ni-kai Kougeki no Okaasan wa Suki Desu ka? has an alienating premise let alone LA wasn't even thinking this was gonna be a good isekai, but lo and behold LA actually liked this isekai even with it's incest-y flaws and running gags and all. With a refreshingly different isekai element and it running with it, funny characters let alone their chemistry with one another only making the comedy that much better to a core concept of parental issues towards it's characters...

Tsuujou Kougeki ga Zentai Kougeki de Ni-kai Kougeki no Okaasan wa Suki Desu ka? is one crazy annoying adventure with your mom, ohh and from all this...yeah..LA thinks Mamako is a badass adorable character who even with her flaws...does solidify this anime to what is really is...is Mamako the true villain disguised as the ditzy mom of the series???

Finally an anime that adheres to my taste -Kakyoin 20XX
*spoilers warning for those who are weak.
Okaasan online (OO) is a rather odd but inevitable anime to come out recently. Riding the wacky train of high-concept isekai premises, with this one being “what if the main character went to another world, but with his mom”. Okasan is able to land firmly in between the too ridiculous to take seriously, but not too ridiculous that you can’t make a small adaptation out of it. While it’s obvious that this entire work was made just for cheap thrills so that anybody can watch it ironically, and for others ... to ogle at waifu bait until the doujinshis come along. The show, intentionally or not, ends up showcasing some interesting themes that ended up with me wanting to write this review about it.

In the beginning OO is presented as a show that really doesn’t care about it’s own story. It takes a lot of tropes from recent isekai anime, and includes a mom with them. It’s mainly used for the sake of humor, but that’s really the beginning and end of the joke. Haha, isn’t it funny that the mom is journeying with the main protagonist. Haha isn’t it funny that the mom is more overpowered than the child, ha ha ha.

The show also certainly doesn’t care about having a narrative drive, especially in the beginning of the story. It doesn’t care about reason or purpose, only results which are getting to why this show exists in the first place, anything else doesn’t matter. Why is the government able to send people into a video game? Doesn’t matter. Why is a video game used as a parent child bonding program? Doesn’t matter. What’s the end game in order to complete the program? Obviously for parent and child to be closer. How is this gauged? DOES NOT MATTER.

The first few episodes of OO are rather aimless. Treading the same waters of other shows of its nature by doing similar riff,gags, and references to JRPGs and videogames in general. The show also has a handful of mom puns, or at least it has many things in this world that has some variation of the word mom jammed into it. The mother’s name is “mama”ka, the protagonist's name is masato which is shortened to Ma-kun, the currency of the world is called mam which sounds close to mom, and pretty much every city and town has the word placed into it, etc etc. They do lessen as the show continues on or at least aren’t that annoying.

After those few episodes the show tries to build some sort of narrative, and it does so by using its themes as a sort of glue so it can have some cohesion. Since during their early aimless travels, the protagonist and his mother picked up other young players to join their adventure. Since the game is mainly about parent and child bonding it would seem odd that the other players they recruited aren’t without their parents which becomes the whole point. With Wise, one of the players they picked up along the way, becoming the catalyst of what this show is all about. The first main “story line” deals with the party dealing with wise's mother who is causing trouble in the game. It’s during this story line that it’s revealed that wise’s mother had been very neglectful of her, and despite the game being an attempt to reconcile, the mom ends up abandoning her.

It becomes obvious that the shows main themes are about parenthood, motherhood, and interpersonal relationships. The entire parent-child bonding program becomes more than just a ploy to show case hot milfs, but to also showcase themes that while may be obvious, they at least make the show more interesting from other derivative isekais. With the next storyline being the opposite of the first, this time having an overbearing parent helicopter over her child in some vicarious fashion. And the final storyline not really having an antagonistic parent, but more so rebellious children who are a mirror to the main protagonist.

Of course interesting themes can only go so far because the writing still sucks. The characters are pretty much dragged from place to place by one of the admins, Shirase, in order to solve these problems and for the storylines to happen. Two of the main storylines resolving with a Mom v. Mom battle via might makes right, with might being the plot bending over backwards for Mamako to always be the winner. Not to mention how Mamako is pretty much the second coming of jesus christ who can do no wrong and becomes way to preachy about being a mom. The only criticism towards her comes from her own son, and even then it really doesn’t matter anyway.

Then there’s Wise and Medhi the two supporting characters whose storylines with their mothers we go through, as they both have interesting characterization by their personalities being a result of how their mothers treated them. However those personalities end up being the only thing about them and also just become jokes. Which is very much the case of Medhi who has a kind personality the show in front of others, and also a malicious personality that’s filled with contempt towards others, especially towards her mother. It portrays how screwed up she has become from how her mother had treated her, but in the end it’s later portrayed like some dumb sadistic quirk that makes her say one-liners every once in a while. Not to mention that their mothers, who get shafted after their story lines are over, were being manipulated the whole time they were in the game. They were still presented as no-good parents before the game, but it was that manipulation that made them 10x worse. So it’s hard to tell whether a character like Medhi got her personality before or during the start of the game.

Sure the show is a comedy and all of this shouldn’t be taken too seriously, but that serious stuff is the only thing the show has going for it since the comedy is mostly stale. So it is a shame that such interesting themes are stuck in such a “plot”, with such ideas being ripe for examination and exploration, and the current setting being a perfect place to facilitate it. There are many possible types of combinations between the parent and child relationship such as an adoptive child, siblings of any degree, or even a NEET child just to name a few. Even the inclusion of a father character, which this anime is lacking despite being a PARENT and child program, would be enough to double or triple the number of possibilities.

There’s also the chance of exploring themes about gender roles, sex, and sexuality. Given that the story takes place in a video game it shouldn’t be too far off for a character to change their sex or appearance with a few switches and dials. Imagine for example a story line that has an old fashioned strict parent who joins the game with their child, but the child “Accidentally” became the opposite sex. However the matter of fact would be that the child did it deliberately because they could: 1.gauge how their parent would feel 2. see if the parent can accept them at that moment and 3. slowly indoctrinate them into the liberal gay agenda. Speaking of gays, what if the main character was gay. The anime does show that Mamako is fine with Masato being in a relationship as they do a sort of potential bride interview as a way to recruit party members. While it’s obvious that it’s done as a joke it would be interesting to see what would happen with their relationship if he was gay. Would Mamako be accepting of him? Well of course she would, she’s basically Jesus II . But would a mother like her but not as benevolent be as accepting? Who knows but it would be interesting.

But that’s enough wallowing of what could have been. Even if the show did these things, given the writing of this show, I doubt it would be even be good.

As for the production value of the show, it’s all right. The only thing worth of note is the character designs, more specifically their eyes. Their designs were done by an artist named Pochi who’s known for a manga that also focuses on the bonds of an older and younger family members. What makes the characters in this anime distinct is that the characters have white pupils. While having characters with white pupils isn’t anything new, it’s done in wholesale here. While i guess it is cute on the other hand the more you look at it the more uncanny it gets. As you stare at Mamako, her gaze pierces yours as she looks deep inside your soul. And as you try to do the same, you are only met with an endless white void. The abyss stares at you but you aren't able to stare back. Averting your eyes is the only option and in doing so your are met with her chest. Beautiful maternal breasts that can comfort and soften even the most hardened of people. So yeah, it's nice shit I guess.

As I was writing this review I think I finally understood why I was so interested in the themes in this show and why i bothered continuing on. It mainly boils down to there rarely ever being even a modest amount of anime about parent-child relationships. One does pop up every once in a while, but even those aren't really that focused on parenthood as much as OO is, albeit OO is very preachy about it. I guess it goes to show that writing isn’t the only way to make a show interesting, just having themes and a parent-child relationship that sometime teeters into incest can work just as well.

Anyway the scoring is a bit skewed because i had to put a 10 on characters so i don't hurt Mamako's feelings

I used to be an agnostic, but this anime has turned me into an atheist. Seriously, look at this abomination and tell me there’s a god. Where did we go wrong? I had just started forgiving JC Staff for OPM S2, but now my anger and disappointment, mainly disappointment, have been rekindled.

Okaasan online which is better known as “Tsuujou Kougeki ga Zentai Kougeki de Nikai Kougeki no Okaasan wa Suki Desuka” which roughly translates to “This is a light novel adaptation”, is an anime about a guy being transported to another world. You might be thinking, “OK, it’s another one of those”, but don’t ... be hasty because there’s a twist – it’s about a boy who gets transported to another world along with his mom. What a twist, right? This new world is made for a mother and her child to embark on an adventure and become closer to each other in the process. Ergo, the protagonist and his mom are transported to another world in order for them to reconcile and appreciate each other’s presence more.

It’s an OK premise, but the execution is absolutely horrendous. Filled with clichés, insipid comedy and your usual harem setup, whatever enjoyment could’ve been found is lost. The plot heavily relies on oversaturated tropes and fanservice. The characters have no personality of their own and their characterisation relies on the setting instead of being the other way around. I will not be getting into the fanservice aspect of this show in this review. All you need to know about it is that it is probably a degenerate weeb’s Milf fantasy.

The main cast of characters consists of your quintessential unsophisticated harem protagonist and his mom, a tsundere, a loli and another weird character all of whom don’t contribute anything to make the setting interesting. There’s one more annoying recurring characters called Shirase who makes garbage puns for the sake of dry and bland comedy.

The characters really get as banal as they can. The tsundere girl, Wise, is basically a tsundere girl, nothing more, nothing less. The pink haired loli, Porter, basically annoys you with her Helium infested voice. Medhi is a pathetic excuse for a character. It feels like no character has a free will of their own and are just following in the footsteps of their ancient counterparts that have been seen about a billion times in other anime.

Masato is practically a useless character as he’s only used for slapstick comedy and for worthless virgins to project themselves upon; and he’s the protagonist. Mamako, Masato’s mom is just an irksome heap of tits, ass and seizure inducing voice. Speaking of seizure inducing voice, the voice actors try their best to produce the most painful voice that they can. Every character sounds like someone scratched a blackboard with their fingernails. The voice acting is pure cringe. Whenever I don’t like a character in a movie or anime I express my anger on the character as I know that the actors and voice actors are just playing the roles they’re given, but, Mamako’s cringy af voice makes me want to punch the voice actress in the face. But, then again I should perhaps direct my anger towards the writer.

The comedy is deplorable. The author probably watched a bunch of harem and isekai anime and tried to parody them but utterly failed. First of all, let’s talk about the most annoying character in the anime – Shirase, whose name means “to inform” in Japanese. After hearing the puns she makes on her name, it required an enormous amount of effort from my side to not punch my laptop to death. After hearing those puns, I regret learning Japanese because I understood the puns in more detail than I would have had I not learnt Japanese. Rest of the comedy is situational which requires a good line delivery, but there was nothing of that sort. Felt like the voice actors just gave up and uttered the lines just for the sake of uttering them.

The lines are insipidly delivered with no regards to the characters’ emotional state. Makamo always sounds cringy, Masato always sounds like a basic bitch, Wise is always stuck up, Medhi has as much personality as a white board and I don’t really know how Porter sounds because I had to lower the volume whenever she spoke as I don’t have the mental or physical strength to endure her Helium infected loli voice.

The music is bland and I was really pissed when they didn’t play Sweet Home Alabama even once. The animation is basic.

I don’t even know what I expected from this show and I’m shocked and disappointed in myself, mostly disappointed, for having finished this show.