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AKANESASU_SHOUJO

                                             October 24, 2018

   "Akanesasu Shoujo" aka
   "The Girl in Twilight"

This is not a show that makes a good first impression--

The teenage girls who are members of the "Radio Research
Society" have somehow heard rumors of a 4:44pm ritual,
which when conducted at a nearby temple with just the
right frequency dialed in on their portable radios can
transfer you to parallel universes.  They find alternate
versions of Uhemselves running around there, including a
powered-up one that's trying to defend the multi-verse
from unraveling (by battling weird excessively computery
looking monsters, of course).

But the premise of the two-parter that starts
with the second episode has some interesting
aspects-- everyone has shuffled into a
universe where Japan has a law that girls are
*required* to marry on their 17th birthday to
guys chosen by an on-line computer lottery.
One of our heroes is up against this, and she
at first is ranting at this barbaric
imposition, and then is introduced to the guy
she's supposed to marry-- a famous idol
singer type she could never have gotten close
to in her own universe-- and she begins to
waver.
                                                   SPOILERS
The climax-- like, spoilers, jack-- is a
deranged chaotic fight scene that breaks out
during the wedding-- where it turns out that
the groom-- already established as not such a
Nice Guy-- turns out to be possessed by the
interdimensional monster they've been stalking.
The bride-- wearing a crystal around her neck
from her dad's old crystal radio set-- discovers
she has Powers.

This is such a mess, such a melange of genre
craziness, that it's appealing.

And if you think about the present state of
Japan-- declining birthrate, xenophobic
objects to immigration, an aging populace,
and right-wing crazies threating to take over
and Make Japan Great Again-- the forced
marriage premise doesn't seem so crazy.

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