
This image accurately depicts the premise of this series.
If you combined Sekirei and Rurouni Kenshin, you would get Asu no Yoichi. The story is simple. A samurai shota is raised in the mountains and he’s so strong that his dad kicks him out of the house to go live with 4 stereotypical females with big boobs (save for the loli). We have the lead female which I’ll coin as Miss Big Tits since I don’t remember what her name was other than onee-chan~! She’s obviously had that “moment in the light” and the flag was raised for her & Yoichi (assuming it’s not a typical harem ending – which as of now seems likely sad to say.) Then we have a tsundere who upon meeting our faithful hero ends up meeting him in a changing room of a clothing store.
Next we have the manga otaku who also draws manga and is probably a fujoushi. But of course everyone’s gonna think she’s awesome because as seen above, she has huge boobs, megane and she’s voiced by Tamura Yukari. Finally we have the loli, who is actually 10 years old but acts like she’s 4. I mean the little shit still asks her older sister to “take her to the bathroom” and then gets lost in a mall. Seriously grow the fuck up. It’s not moe and you’re fucking retarded.
At least Yoichi doesn’t “run away crying” or “grab until he’s punched into a wall” when he is in the situation above. He still has that samurai integrity but I don’t know how far that will last. Also I feel like I’m watching Encino Man meets Kage Kara Mamoru.
Will give it another few eps to see how much of this I can stand.
JP’s Thoughts:
First off, you mean “Ibuki” not “Miss Big Tits”, and by “meeting him in a changing room of a clothing store” you mean “is about to get RAEPED by him in a changing room of a clothing store”. And yeah, that loli thing was hella weird. I mean, Nanoha or Card Captor Sakura or the Kodamo no Jikan cast don’t go around shitting their pants. That loli even looked like she was 4. I do have to say that so far, Yoichi is pretty far over on the “useful” end of the “useful/useless harem lead” continuum. He can find older sisters for lolis (BY THEIR BOOB SIZE LOLOLOLOLOL), make ziplines, swordfight, and escape from the police. The escaping from police thing will come in handy if he keeps up his RAEP habit.
Finally, with regards to the screencap, JURUUUUUUUUUUUU.
So this is another fanservice anime?, What could go wrong!?
By: Kairu Ishimaru on January 8, 2009
at 10:04 pm
So in other words, this could be hilariously bad and full of lulz? Should be fun~
By: nazarielle on January 8, 2009
at 10:14 pm
Holy crap.
You had me at “[i]f you combined Sekirei and Rurouni Kenshin”
By: omo on January 8, 2009
at 10:20 pm
Man, I hate programs where they use old dialect, for some reason it annoys the hell out of me. >.<;
Overall, a pretty meh episode, I did giggle at the “she has big boobs” used as description to find the sister, but that’s about it.
I hope Yoichi follows Yuuto’s example and stays loyal to one girl instead of falling in the “typical harem lead” box.
By: Scheris on January 8, 2009
at 10:27 pm
I’m OK with it because he’s supposed to be a ye olde tyme samurai and stuff. When it’s like some random affectation, then yeah it gets me annoyed, too. Same with when characters use -de aru and it’s not something like Keroro doing a military parody.
By: jpmeyer on January 8, 2009
at 10:54 pm
The loli actually sporting heavy ‘armaments’. If you know what I mean.. =))
By: Kresnik on January 9, 2009
at 1:38 am
I read a couple of manga chapters, it was kinda funny, might watch when the sub will arrive, and yeah we needed some meaningless fanservice anime in winter season LOL
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By: Abi-kun on January 9, 2009
at 2:52 am
これエッチィから観ちゃだめぇ~w
By: ひでぽん on January 9, 2009
at 3:51 am
Kresnik> What?
By: Hinano on January 9, 2009
at 8:01 am
I can only say this about the picture:
“Iiyaa~~ Minaidehazukashii~~”
By: Di Gi Kazune on January 9, 2009
at 8:35 am
@Hinano I’ll give you a hint “bandages”
By: bearzerger on January 9, 2009
at 10:13 am
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh boy…
(I mean, it was one thing when Kodomo no Jikan did it, because at least this was a springboard for psychological development because she had body image issues due to her freakish form.)
By: jpmeyer on January 9, 2009
at 10:18 am
by the way waying your telling it it sounds soooooooooo funnny
By: shalala on January 9, 2009
at 5:17 pm
The rurouni kenshin part got me interested, but from your description it doesn’t sound like there is alot of kenshin in there save for the ’shota samurai’ part
By: Jason on January 9, 2009
at 9:13 pm
I watched this today.
Similar to Akikan, I think this may be yet another Harem/Fanservice show that I’m actually going to watch for the male lead, which is absolutely absurd considering most of the male leads in these shows.
So far Yoichi is hilarious.
By: ToastCrust on January 11, 2009
at 12:07 am
you guys decided to give this show a chance and watch more than one, and you quit toradora only after 1 episode??
By: LeftArrow on May 30, 2009
at 2:25 am
Actually, we never watched Toradora in the first place. In my case, because I can’t stand Rie Kugimiya.
By: jpmeyer on May 30, 2009
at 12:03 pm
Aww makes sense. Tiaga wasn’t my favorite character in the show (Ami is the best imo) but it grows on you
If you guys get really bored try watching a few episodes of toradora it really picks up in the later half.
But i can understand not wanting to watch a show because you cant stand the voice actor
By: LeftArrow on May 31, 2009
at 11:59 pm