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This is an otherwise good anime. I don't get why it doesn't get a higher score. Or maybe it's because a lot of people have difficulty self-inserting as a strong, powerful, "winning-at-life" character.

The plot is straight-forward enough:

Male lead wins a fighting tourney, now every other species who saw him progress would want to have his child. And this is despite him being betrothed to the guild master's daughter who's basically a warrior nun.

So he tries to keep from her the secret that he's been forced to plant his seed into 4 other women. Thankfully, said women understand his plight, but still; they have legitimate reasons ... to do it. (Even though, they're still raping(?) him.)

Peter is a sight for sore eyes if you want a male lead who's different from the garbage shounen-tachi from most of the anime out right now. Yes, he's weak to sexual temptation, but he's not so weak as to be defeated by monsters and ogres.

The girls around him are versatile in their personalities. Lisa, Mimi, and Piglette are especially easy to look at. Vegan's "flat chest" joke on her is stupid and it never was funny.

The animation looks like it was done by the same people who worked under Pink Pineapple. So now I'm beyond the shock of seeing adult anime companies doing regular anime works and vice verse. But still, the manga based on this is actually porn.

Despite the show being 15 minutes; "Peter Grill's Philosopher Time" is amazingly bold in its attempt to use actual (yet implied) sex as a necessity and a gag. More bold than "Domestic Girlfriend" that used sex as a bait to get people to watch the show. Way more bold than "Rent-A-Girlfriend," which uses the MC's "fap delusions" and "masturbation as a coping mechanism" as a plot piece and a gag (failing miserably at both, IMMHO). And actually better than "School Days" which punishes the MC for having sex.

This review will also cover the concurring Season 4 of TeeKyuu.

I start finding things out about the TQ series and it's spin-offs; being done in a minimalized fashion with a small staff yet resulting in episodes that only go for around 2 minutes. (I'm thinking about how SHAFT does it but they don't like doing things "normally." So yeah.)

The shows are obvious:

TQ4 continues to be random, random, and random; tennis is maybe mentioned in one episode but this show's not about tennis anymore. It's mainly about Yuri, Kanae, Nasuno, and Marimo being themselves and comically playing off of each other.

Nasuno's spin-off is mainly about Youta, ... Yuri's little brother, becoming Nasuno's butler and (because of the difficulty of her "magical airhead" personality) "automatic retort machine" (like his big sister).

Both of these shows are fun because of the "good" randomness (as oppose to the evil randomness that treats characters horribly because of their gender or what country they come from).

And IMMHO: Those episodes where Nasuno was kidnapped and where Youta was playing soccer against a zebra should've switched with each other.

Getting this out of the way:

Treatment of shounen lead. = 6 (out of 10)
Upskirt panty shots. = 0

I guess in the end, a show that aims to actually be "good" doesn't have to rely on a small dose of sexualization. (Because unfortunately, animu with upskirt panty shots tend to go too far and would evidently become a major turn-off.)

That being said: Etotama's a pretty fun anime. The characters herein aren't too predictable and trope-based. If they are trope-based, then there were efforts to break said tropes and have them become more solid characters. "Efforts," mind you.

And while the amount of cartoony violence (outside of the ... fighting violence) is abundant; atleast it's not focused upon the shounen lead.

This show is too good to be left in "low-Wapan-sales" limbo. I'm hoping either Sentai Filmworks ("disc space" argument be damned) or Media Blasters can get this show and give it an English dub.

It must be great for Japan to have this incredible power to rewrite its own history; to tell its kids that "the Japanese were just minding their own collective business when America just came in, killed hundreds of thousands of people, and gave them two holes in their ground." Japan's brainwashing power at its greatest.

But check the Wikipedia, and every non-Japanese history book, mind you... And there are stories about the bloody inter-Asian conflicts (even before WWII); the non-aggression pacts with Jew-murdering Nazi Germany and Italy; fake states like Manchuria; slaughter; cannibalism; and the Imperial Japan's eventual downfall because of the ticking off of ... Americans, Russia, and China (because they were having their own civil war).

You will find little in terms of "historical accuracy" in Kantai Collection; an anime based on a web-browser game that's basically "Strike Witches on a boat." Some upskirt panty shots while in "part-time computer-generated" action and all.

No, I'm wrong. It's not "Strike Witches on a boat." Strike Witches featured more characters from around the world sorta.

I mainly disliked the series because it's basically "Cute Girls Doing Cute Things." And, outside of the sinking of Kisarage; there was no effort from the people behind this animu to show the shipgirls as anything but victorious and invincible.

I also disliked it because there's no effort to delve further into the enemy; the Abyssmals. Who are they? Where do they come from? Why is it so important for the Japanese shipgirls to "take the sea back" from them? Why is it not the job of everyone else around that general area? How can we non-KanColle-players NOT know that the Abyssmals are the placeholders for the "evil Americans?" who came and kicked their their racist imperialist butts? I know it's an alternate universe but hey.

I started watching the show and expecting it to be the Wapanese Animu Industry's attempt at being as cool as Marvel (since the Avengers sequel is coming out). What I've gotten is more of the same. Notably in these few places:

* Tooru; the shounen lead who, despite his powers, still doesn't know how to handle women. "Captain (America combined with) Thor?" Really?

* Basically, nobody in Wapan likes America; as shown with the enemy of the show who goes by the name of "K."

I'll admit that this animu wasn't as brutal towards Tooru as, say, Trinity Seven was towards it's shounen lead. It's still depressing to ... watch because said shounen lead, after defeating the "opponent of the arc" with the help of Julie et al, always manages to get hospitalized. Like there's no such thing as "defeating an opponent unscathed" ohwaitaminute... Kantai Collection's Fubuki and friends.

The bonus panty shots couldn't save the show. The mid-tier animation and the bland (yet symphonic) background music wasn't helping much either.

Ultimately, this show (and it's hidden middle finger to America) is one of the reasons why companies like FUNi should NEVER license a show before / during airing. I don't care how big you are. If a show sucks [at the end], you're gonna be the owner of that "suck."

I gave this anime high marks for featuring a shounen lead who actually isn't either the run-of-the-mill spineless shounen lead or a complete Gary Stu with no personality. I actually found out that he's another one of those" most interesting boys in the world" with additional Black Ops training.

It turns out that the lot of the female characters, who star in this anime with him, are just as abnormal.

* Amane, the "big sis" who has the hots for Yuuji.
* Michiru, the self-proclaimed "tsundere" and schizophrene.
* Yumiko, the Senjougahara wannabe (alias "Imitation Crab") and thankfully Yuuji was able to stop her crap...
* Makina, creepy "chuuni" and ... "hidden princess."
* And Sachi, a "constantly patrolling shark" who just merely wants to be a good girl.

The reasons for their personalities get revealed during the course of this anime.

It manages to follow my rules; 1) Shounen lead should NOT be spineless, and 2) upskirt panty shots. But then it gets dull and not-so-fun. It was less about "otherwise smart characters saying stupid things (without the physical so-called comedy);" and more about the dark themes of gun-to-head hostage taking, deaths, and near-deaths .

I still think it's better than the lot of other anime titles only because of non-spineless shounen lead and upskirt panty shots.

And people were saying Danna Nani was Prime Minister Abe's propaganda effort to have NEETs and otaku go out in the world and reproduce. Kokkuri-san looks like Abe's effort to have the same set of NEETs and otaku take care of children.

The question needs to be asked: Where is Kohina's parents and why is she all alone in this world. If traditional Japanese folklore are trying to raise her, then something is DEFINITELY wrong with this culture if this is true.

The show's pretty good; some of the characters turning into mascot dolls threw me off guard, though. It's nice to see Daisuke Ono come a ... long way from being "part of Kyon's harem."

This series asks the question: Can an anime otaku and an office lady find happiness in something as annoying as a "marriage?"

Well; depending on how a person views marriage, mileages may vary. But I can think of only a few people in the world who can make it as entertaining as Yukari Tamura (Nanoha "White Devil" Takamichi, When They Cry's Rika) and Kenichi Suzumura (Seed Destiny's Shinn Asuka, Tsukihime's Shiki Touno).

Althought I think the show had been killed by Youta, Hajime's little brother. This "little boy wanting to be a little girl" just took that show over and "spanked it until it became useless." (I ... don't know which is worse anymore. Kids in the US shooting themselves and getting shot by others, or gender confusion?)

I seen the loli, I seen the male lead suffering; and I avoided it like the plague because "Wapanese Animu Industry." Later on, I've been hearing about how "No Game No Life" is hated and how it's an actually "good" anime. So I figured I'd blow through this and see what it's all about. (Atleast I get panty shots.)

I'll say that NGNL is:

* in terms of animation; a less whimsical "Sunday Without God."
* in terms of plot and story; a combo of "Problem Children..." (without characters being mega-overpowered) and "Welcome To NHK" (without the focus on how hit-too-close-to-home horrible being a NEET is).
* in terms ... of characters; what happens when you heavily weaken "Problem Children...'s" Izayoi, inject reality to "Lucky Star's" Konata, put them together, and dump them into a recycled world of "Problem Children..."

The end result of this anime is basically ludicrously-written wish-fulfillment pandering at its lowest common denominator, but it tries to be fun. And I guess that's the message of this anime: To try to atleast have fun.

In my last review of the parent anime "Godless Sunday;" I called it "whimsical as hell." This "special" beats you to death with whimsical, sends you to the coroner and tags your toe "whimsical," drives you in a VW hearse to your funeral "whimsical," and then whimsically buries you.

* The hot springs part features NO stupid physical harem animu gags whatsoever.
* Part two features Alice as he meets Humpty Hump...
* Part three features Humpty Hump before he met Hana...

This show is hot springs and then some flashbacks. It's mainly "scenery porn."

Viewers wanting ACTION, comedy, and sight gags to make their own pain go away ... will head-explode because it's hardly anything there. But I believe that's the point; that not all anime titles have to be about "cute girls doing lesbian things" and "guys sucking @ life for otaku / viewer lulz."