Ichigo 100% is one of the most aggressively lazy fanservice series that I’ve seen yet. Let’s compare it with something like He is My Master from last week. He is My Master, as awful as it was, would at least set up situations or reasons to segue into its fanservice. Izumi breaks a vase, so she is forced to become a maid; becoming a maid, of course, requires her to wear a maid uniform. There. Now we have a basis for having the female characters walk around in fetish-wear.
this scene was not because someone tripped or walked in on someone or had some kind of misunderstanding. it's because the female characters decided that it would be a good idea to have junpei grab and motorboat all of their fuckin' huge-ass titties
Ichigo 100% sometimes begins to set up situations like that. There will be a beach episode, or someone will spill something on her clothes, forcing her to change them (which requires her to get naked first). That should provide a basis for a situation like say, peeping on the girls in the bath. Instead, we have them literally be like “Let’s put our bodies on display for Junpei while the other guys take pictures of our breasts!” or “Let’s all rub our boobs against his face while the other guys film us squeezing each other’s fuckin’ huge-ass titties!” On the other hand, I guess you could say that this is justified because of their personalities. That is, if you assume that this is a “personality” type.
I personally didn’t think the whole “walking boner” thing was so egregious in Hatsukoi Limited, but it’s completely ridiculous here. It’s both implicit and explicit here: girls with gigantic boobs, few goals or personality quirks, and who as I said above, purposely put their bodies on display for him as if its their only reason to exist. Normally, in situations like these I begin to yell out “YEAH FUCKIN’ HUGE-ASS TITTIES!” or “YEAH FUCKIN’ PANTIES!” and whatnot every time one of those situations occurs in order to make things more enjoyable. This time, I get yelled at to stop when I very early on yelled “YEAH JUNPEI GRAB SATSUKI’S FUCKIN’ HUGE-ASS TITTY!” three times in about as many seconds. I mean seriously, those scenes would just go on and on. Normally in a scene like that, the girl trips or something and lands on the guy, and then there’s a cut to how like her boob landed on his hand or something. In that scene, she lands on him as usual, but rather than the cut to a static shot of boob on hand, he just keeps squeezing it over and over again.
Would I watch it even if I weren’t forced? After watching/reading Hatsukoi Limited, I wanted to see if any of Mizuki Kawashita’s other manga were any good. Nope!
I watched the first episode and dropped it immediately because even the premise of the series is stupid (I saw some strawberry panties and must find the girl), add some other girls and BAM its a show.
I like fanservice (as long as its not shoved in your face like Kanokon) but this was just unbearable to continue.
Kawashita’s manga can be decent, but this particular anime adaptation is just horrible.
@Piper
My experience has basically been:
Lilim Kiss: Eh, whatever
Ichigo 100%: Grooooooooooooooooooan
Hatsukoi Limited: Quite good
Ane Doki: Does this even attempt to have a story?
Basically, her weak track record makes it so that I’ll read them for walking boners, and I’ll be pleasantly surprised if the story actually ends up being non-awful.
Hatsukoi at least had justified fanservice, and it had a nice history, this one is just lame, i dunno how u went trough it ~_~
It’s funny how much difference there is between this and Hatsukoi Limited. Anyway, I could tolerate the Ichigo 100% TV series, for all its flaws. It was stupid, but hardly the worst anime I’ve ever seen. I couldn’t tolerate the OVAs. They were so awful, it was almost torturous to watch.
I saw one OVA (I think there’s multiple OVA specials) and yeah, it managed to somehow be even worse than the show in general.
I have two plushies of girls from this series!
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That is, if you assume that this is a “personality” type.
no, it is called exhibitionism…
Well, the manga is decidedly better.
I never did get into the anime (I was shocked to see they tried to squeeze into…what was it? 11,12,13 episodes?), but I did however read the manga in its entirety. I’m not sure if I’d be able to tolerate the amount of fanservice had I tried to get into today, but when I read it several years ago I really enjoyed the story. Just because how short they made it I doubt the anime incarnation is any good.
Seems like art is imitating reality. Ever been to one of those “spring break” parties for college students in Cancun, New Orleans, or Florida?
Or shows like Bad Girls Club and Jersey Shore