Binan KouKou Chikyuu Bouei-Bu Love episode 2 answers the long time questioned ‘HOW CAN YOU NOT JUST TELL WHO IT IS, they don’t look that different’ question people have been asking of magical girl series since the beginning of the magical girl genre in the first three minutes.
With censorship, their faces have been pixelized and their voices distorted for their privacy.
PFFFTTT OMG, THIS SHOW IS BRILLIANT. No, seriously. Even addressing the question is beautiful but the absolutely ridiculous way they tackle it is even better. The villains just sit there and are like, “Well, we have this voice scrambling/identity hiding technology too.” and are just so casual about it.
Also, can anyone name me a magical girl show where we spend a good few minutes just watching the bad guys talk over tea and cake? Because I can’t, and I love it. So the villains decide to watch the Battle Lovers and try to figure out their true purpose, while trying to inflict a new dark world order and obtain perfection by weeding out the weak. The world should be run by the superior after all.
Meanwhile, the battle lovers are bumming around their ‘Earth Defense Club’ room and talking about stupid things again. This time, chopsticks. Oh boy, I wonder what kind of monster we’re going to end up seeing later this episode? I bet it’s not going to be chopsticks.
You know, the irony escaped me in the first episode but it hits me now that they are totally doing this on purpose to pick at the idea that each episode of a magical girl show is normally focused around some kind of theme and whatever the theme of the episode is, is the sort of Monster they will end up facing at the end of the episode.
This episode we also learn what happened to the teacher, and yeah. He’s dead. It’s even worse then I imagined though. My idea was the Wombat stumbled upon the professor tht was dead from old age and just took his body to be a puppet. NO, NO, when he was running away from Yumoto in the first episode. He runs into the school building and up the stairs, right under the professors feet tripping him down the stairs and killing him. So now he needs to stay near the professors body or it’s going to rot.
….Is he a soul gem? He’s keeping a corpse alive by being close to it. That sounds an awful lot like a soul gem guys.
Gah, so we cut to the cafeteria where we meet our token guy who is going to be possessed by the bad guy and turned into a chopstick monster. VILLAIN TRANSFORMATIONS GUYS, VILLAIN TRANSFORMATIONS…-hyperventilates- Alright, alright, so after the villains transform on screen they get together and take a piece of the evil green hedgehog and turn it into the thing they will implant token guy with. His name is Wario, so I sha’ll now refer to him as such. They create the thing to posess Wario and shoot it into his neck.
OMG, he turns into a chopstick monster? No way! Alright, it’s less cheesey then I thought really. He transforms into a Monster that uses all the chopsticks in the cafeteria as armor. He’s the Death the Kid monster, he wants everything to be symetrical.
At the Earth Defense Club their love making lovelects single them that it’s time to go into action. Yufin really just wants the day off and tells the others to go do it but the Wombat says that we shouldn’t cut the numbers so carelesly. There have always been five heirs to the love making throne, why else would he think so hard to come up with five catch phrases?
So they go out to fight the chopstick monster and let’s be honest, Yumoto does most of the work again leaving the rest of them feeling pretty useless.
Maybe next time Ryuu, maybe next time. The villains looking on decide that they are their enemies and then the boys return once again to the Bathhouse and rest their battle woes….with the corpse of their professor. Gross.
Episode two was just as good as episode one and it keeps throwing jabs and jokes at the old tired cliche’s of the magical girl anime while managing to function really well on it’s own without them. The only thing I can’t understand about this series doesn’t come from the show at all, but the fandom. Where is all this yaoi coming from? Now you guys know me, I love me some yaoi but I have seen nothing to indicate any kind of relationship past friendship for any of these guys. Like, not even a single undertone. The most undertones this show has is YumotoXWombat and uh…well No. Maybe i’ll come to understand later or something or maybe this is just one of those fangirl things that i’ll never understand. Either way, Episode three….
Has the head of the Ballet club as the impending Monster, OH GOD. I DON’T KNOW IF I’LL LIVE THROUGH THE LAUGHTER!
I was hoping they would spend the whole series leaving it ambiguous on whether or not the teacher was alive.
I was kind of hoping too but this is just as good I guess. It opens up for awkward moments like dead bodies in the bath.
I guess that’s kinda funny. What I really don’t like is seeing that the wombat killed him. Accidentally yes, but still, Jesus Christ. I enjoy dark comedy as much as the next girl, but in this series it feels out of place.
You know how a lot of fujoshi are, randomly shipping male characters even if there’s no such chemistry.. (It’s a stereotype but it’s largely true!)
Both this week and last week watching this anime, I was really skeptical when starting the episode but ended up reluctantly enjoying it. I love that the anime is kind of self-aware, and they themselves point out how ridiculous some things are! (And I’m so glad the five guys are aware of how silly their uniforms look. xD )
I guess I just don’t get it because I love yaoi. I ship a lot of random things [Light/L, Shizou/Izaya, Ozaki/Seishin] but sometimes I just….can’t see where these fan girls get these pairings. Like, it hurts me as a yaoi fan girl when people pull context out of something there isn’t. like, none of these boys have showed ANY romantic chemistry not even in the ‘I hate you so much i love you’ kind of way….so idk.
but yeah, i love it’s self-aware nature and all the jabs it takes at itself and other parts of the magical girl genre.