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EVOLVING_FLOWER

                                                       March 22, 2014
To start with the show--

  "Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge"
                                                       TOUCH
I wanted to like this ten
episode series...  they got me
with the first episode, which               The touch is off in many
piled on absurd element after               places throughout "Yamato
absurd element; but completely              Nadeshiko", actually...
lost me with their "suprise
twist" in the final episoode,               Around the same time, we
leaving me with the feeling that            were watching the show:
someone needs to have their
fiction license revoked.                      "Akihabara@Deep"

It occurs to me, I had a similar            This is another comedy/drama
problem with "Majisuka Gaukauen",           with similar problems in
where at the close they betray              touch--
the entire premise of the series
just to set things up for sequels           (An *epilectic* nerd
(the reluctant warrior has always           who *seizes up* sometimes,
wanted to *avoid* senseless                 isn't that funny?  And get
combat, but suddenly accepts the            this, *steam* rises out of
role as gang-leader)--                      his head when he has
                                            seizures! Ha ha).
   There have been three
   seasons of this show,                        Dangerbaby likes this one,
   I stopped watching after                     where the women are super-cool
   the first.                                   but the guys are all dorks.
                                                I liked "Yamato Nadeshiko",
   AKB48_COMPLEX                                where the converse is true.


         Trying to trace out precisely
         where Yamato Nadeshiko goes
         wrong would be harder--

         Can you complain about a final
         absurdity when everything was
         absurd throughout?

         A better question might be how was it
         possible for this story to be engaging
         at all?  A spooky "horror girl", with
         an affected sepulchral voice, who
         wears a black cloak and hood at nearly        Dangerbaby suggests I
         all times, shyly hiding herself from          was won over solely
         the dazzling brightness of the world;         by the physical
         the male lead is supposed to have a           beauty of this
         pretty face that effects women so             actress, but I think
         strongly that he's spent his life             she may impress
         running from hordes of obsessed               Dangerbaby a bit more
         women... and there's still more, we're        than me.
         no where near done summarizing the
         premises of this story--                      It is however,
                                                       interesting to have
                                                       a pretty woman on
                                                       stage whose default
                                                       appearence is a
                                                       no-makeup look--
                                                       though periodically
                                                       they dress her up in
                                                       different ways
                                                       throughout the story.


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