May 19, 2006

Tales of the Unexpected
I started watching Sasami: Mahou Shoujo Club, which is a spin-off of a spin-off of a spin-off of Tenchi Muyo. But it may contain Pixy Misa, so I need to at least give it a go. It hasn't been fansubbed yet; I'm watching it in the original Klingon. But then I did that with Magical Girl Pretty Sammy too, and back then I knew even less Japa - uh, Klingon - than I do now.
Okay, so we have Sasami, who is more or less recognisable, and Washuu and Ryo-ohki, who are the same as ever, and Mihoshi... We'll come back to Mihoshi.
I didn't have high hopes for this series, because the character designs made the show look like it was targeted at six-year-old girls. As it turns out, appearances can be deceiving.
Here we are in the first episode, and one of the boys in Sasami's class has done the old mirror-on-the-shoe trick so he can look up Miho-sensei's skirt. Sasami's girlfriends think this is a typical stupid boy trick, but Sasami thinks it's kind of neat.
The kicker is, when Mihoshi turns up, she's not wearing a skirt. I don't mean she's wearing slacks, I mean she's wearing a skirt, except not.
Which lead to a certain amount of re-evaluation of my guess as to the show's target audience.
At about that point I ran out of .avi, because I stupidly turned off my notebook while copying the file, so I will have to report back with more thoughts and screen caps.
Secondly, there's this:
You're telling me this is an actual comic? (Thanks to Brian Tiemann. I think.)

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 09:17 PM | Comments (7) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
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Where did you find Sammy Club? I've been tooling around half-heartedly to see if it was up somewhere, but as of yet I've had no luck.
Posted by: Will at May 20, 2006 12:06 AM (RLceB)
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OK, you can't leave that description of Mihoshi hanging like that. What in hell are you talking about?
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at May 20, 2006 03:19 AM (+rSRq)
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Well, you must admit it WOULD be unexpected...
Posted by: Wonderduck at May 20, 2006 09:33 AM (+FLIL)
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http://www.misterkitty.org/extras/stupidcovers/stupidcomics2.html
My favorite was the bottom one on this page. And you thought the Japanese invented the concept in the 1990s.
My favorite was the bottom one on this page. And you thought the Japanese invented the concept in the 1990s.
Posted by: TallDave at May 20, 2006 02:42 PM (H8Wgl)
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Will, you can find torrents here. No-one's picked this up for fansubbing yet, so raws is all there is.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 20, 2006 06:15 PM (bBAzP)
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Sweet, now to see just how rusty my already sub-mediocre listening skills have become.
Posted by: Will at May 21, 2006 06:44 AM (SOx9v)
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