The premise of this show (from what I gathered) was that it was going to try and parry as many shows as they could fit in a 12 minute episode as possible. They don’t really hold any punches. The original story was a For panel surreal comedy webcomic created by Bkub Okawa and I sort of feel like I am really missing the comedy part of the anime. This might be because of the gap between my culture and the culture of Japan. It just felt like it was absurd more then it was comical. Not all people are going to like the same exact comedy as another person as well. The only thing I could place with them was that the two characters had a base line for their personalities. The purple haired girl was more straight forward with her comedy while the yellow haired was a little more energetic. I didn’t care enough to learn there names. (After looking them up, the yellow haired girl is Popuko and the Purple haired is Pipimi. Seriously didn’t care while watching the show as there was no point.) I just found that I wanted the ending preview anime more then this odd mix of scenes as it just seemed more interesting.
With all the problems I had with this anime’s comedy, I do have to give it some props. The show is very innovative from the use of different styles to the change in the ending song and sequences once in a while. It dared to break some of the boundaries that were normally seen within the genre… at least the normal things I do see. Just because a show is not for everyone does not mean that it’s a really bad show.
The art style is… well its odd. There seems to be a main base and then what I could probably think of as guest animations in some of the portions. Again, hard to explain here. The main design seems to be a little chibi yellow haired girl and a … tall high school girl with purple hair. This is not a style I typically see in animation and I give them props for doing this very different form but it is really not a style I like. I’m fine with getting out of the normal Chibi style or Cute wide eyed High school girls, but it has to be an interesting story to help me get over some of those designs and this did not have that for me. We have segments that look good in a very clean artistic way and segments that look like a little kid drew them, even some rather creative segments that go into the 3D aspects. I give them props on being innovated like I said before.
The voices were really inconsistent. Sometimes they had male voices, sometimes female, sometimes non gender voices and it just felt strange. The opening song was pretty catchy and nice to listen to while the ending song was a typical ending song you would get for a slice of life. Neither of them felt like they fit the craziness that was this series. To be fair, I only watched the Japanese version of this so what might have been throwing me off was that even the Japanese actors were being changed around so much and there was no consistency although I don’t know if the English dub would of made it even better. I would of probably understood some of the stuff better if it was at least in my native language.
So here is the big question, is this worth the watch? Well, it really depends on what your type of anime sits well with you. While I do normally like some surreal comedy shows, most of them have an overall plot or characters that have a deep charm to them. I didn’t find anything like that with this series. This may be because I have never seen the manga before or because of the very random art styles that show up in this. Heck, it could even be because they kept changing the characters voice actors throughout the whole show. The show just didn’t have anything to help me get into the show. It just felt too random for my tastes though I will say that I’m sure it will find its small group of fans. I’m just not one of them.
