Dokuro-chan 2 Post-viewing Thoughts
Just finished the short 2-episode Dokuro-chan 2 OAV series (or 4 half-episodes, if you prefer). Â Dokuro-chan the TV series (was that actually shown on TV?)Â was incredibly dirty in addition to being absolutely horrifying in many other ways. Â Which left me wondering what the OAV series, ostensibly without the restrictions (what restrictions?!) of the TV series, would do to top it.
Turns out I didn’t have enough imagination, because Holy Kim Jong Il in a Chicken Basket, Batman! is that series dirty. Â Oh, still violent too, but man did that toss out some nasty, cringeworthy, wholly inappropriate, and just plain wrong things. Â Some of the throw-away jokes (along the lines of what we briefly saw Zansu doing with a bunch of SM gear and a video camera) are so wrong that I was laughing and wanting to gouge my eyes out at the same time. Â Even more than before, that is. Â I must admit, it does feature what is the single most horrifying gift wrapping I have ever seen by a huge margin. Â Some of the stuff is so dirty you might not even get the joke, and if you do, well, you should be ashamed of yourself.
The upshot, though, is that while it’s even more horrifying than before it’s also considerably more funny. Â A slight reduction in the extreme cartoon-style character animation was another plus, since I really don’t go for that sort of thing. Â Oh, and it hit the one bodily secretion that I didn’t even realize the first series missed (snot). Â I actually ended up laughing pretty hard several times, albeit between cringing, groaning, and wishing for blindness.
It’s a specific kind of masochistic humor (sometimes literally), but at least it’s done well.
On a not-entirely-unrelated note, my comments on the self-fanpon in Genshiken 2 came before watching episode 5, in which Ogiue starts writing raging BL doujinshi in her head about the male members of Genshiken… which we see acted out in graphic detail by hardbodied, bishounen-enhanced versions of the thoroughly unattractive cast. Â No, seriously, Genshiken offhandedly tossed out some pretty blunt comments of a sexual nature, but this episode goes there, big time. Â As in “Why haven’t we faded to black or cut away yet? Â Still no? Â Still?!” Â I think that’s the most explicit (albeit tastefully shadowy) content I’ve ever seen in a TV series.
So Genshiken has now officially not only done its own fanporn, but it’s run through almost every wholly inappropriate slash pairing and lust-crazed fangirl fantasy scenario possible (Madarame apparently bottoms in Ogiue’s head).
And it gets bonus points for having the entire concept go completely over Saki’s head (she naively assumes that Ogiue just has a crush on one or two of the guys, missing the subtext of what she’s fantasizing about entirely).
Basically good, good stuff, even if it does hurt in multiple different (TMI!) ways.