May 19, 2006

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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: unexpected.jpg

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)

1 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)

2 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)

3 Well, you must admit it WOULD be unexpected...

Posted by: Wonderduck at May 20, 2006 09:33 AM (+FLIL)

4 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.

Posted by: TallDave at May 20, 2006 02:42 PM (H8Wgl)

5 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)

6 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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