Management: My writeups will still obviously all be on the test, but here are my overall initial impressions of this season’s lineup.
This week sure was summer. I caught the first episode of a whole tidal wave of shows, dropped several, clung to a few more, and was actually impressed by exactly two. Let’s get those out of the way first.
I’m not actually covering this, but there’s nothing else going on and I might as well open a page just in case. Morbid curiosity demands I check out anything with a title as ridiculous as Dog and Scissors.
Dear god it’s Dog Scissors
2:07 – What in all that is holy is this OP
3:13 – I already get the feeling this is the kind of show you only watch after losing a bet
3:53 – ‘Oh, he’s got his own apartment. Does that mean he’s actually an adult?’ “The winter of my third year of middle school, my entire family moved away…” Right. Of course.
5:21 – “I can’t die without reading that.” And the female MC is the author, and he dies and gets reincarnated as a dog? Okay, looks like we know the whole plot now
9:07 – Alright, “can’t die without completing last wish,” I get. But how that exactly translates to being reincarnated as a dog…
10:30 – “Yeah, I’m a dog, but more importantly I haven’t read anything in weeks!” Taking his doghood in stride. I like it
11:18 – I also like a story where the MC’s passion is reading books instead of, you know, panties or anime or erogames or whatever
11:39 – I would not sell a live animal to a woman who keeps a pair of scissors in a thigh-holster
11:47 – “Sorry to keep you waiting. The protagonist has appeared.” Ooh, are we gonna get all storytelling-meta here? By all means
16:35 – This show is pretty stupid, but that dog has great expressions. Particularly like his Is this nigga serious? face
18:01 – Alright, reincarnated dogs I’ll believe, but a novelist living in the top tax bracket? Pffff…
18:59 – Hah. Fan hysteria lasts for three seconds, then “hurry up and write the book I want.” Great
And Done
Well, that was about as silly as I expected.
