First Date: Kanokon
- Title: Kanokon
- Studio: XEBEC
- Genre: Shounen Romance/Comedy
Ratings (out of 5):
- Story: ♥♥
- Animation: ♥♥♥
- Characters: ♥½
- OP/ED Themes: ♥♥♥
- Overall: ♥♥ (Oh, god, haven’t I seen this before?)
Thoughts:
Your first warning, Gurren Lagann fans: this show will absolutely destroy the awesomeness of the word “Gattai” (Union).
So, the plot: Kouta is a high school boy who looks like he’s six years old. He keeps getting hit on by a busty bitch named Chizuru. She gives him a love letter and then reveals herself to be a fox demoness, then tries to rape him. Her brother stops her and yells at her for revealing herself to a human, and she performs a “gattai” with Kouta to prove that he at least doesn’t hate her, and they beat up the brother. Then she succeeds in raping him.
Visually, you can imagine the show’s aesthetic as looking a lot like Gakuen Utopia Manabi Straight! (which is ufotable, not XEBEC, for the record) but with a shouta boy for the hero. He even gets turned into a catboy. And the show is apparently trying to rival Rosario to Vampire for fanservice (even pantyshots), except that everyone in the show looks pre-pubescent (except that some of them do have boobs). The animation and art quality are fine, but waaaaay not my style for a show this pervy.
There is absolutely nothing to the characters that we haven’t seen a billion times before: Kouta is sort of a wishy-washy nice guy, Chizuru is a pushy but sweet type. Chizuru’s brother is a fun guy except for the serious moments, and there’s a bitchy class president and a few other archetypes as well. All in all, the only thing this show does that I haven’t seen in a show of its type before is the sheer amount of fanservice. They don’t shy away on the kissing front, either, which is something I would appreciate in a different show, I think.
So, yeah. If you dig Key shows but wish they were zanier and more perverted, here’s your show. Not really my thing, though, so I doubt I’ll move forward with the second episode.
Tags: first-dates, kanokon, spring-08, xebec
April 5th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
[...] spite of Kanokon’s attempts to destroy Gurren Lagann, SaiAni reports that the Gurren Lagann film’s website has updated with the full name and date [...]
April 6th, 2008 at 2:26 am
yea it kinda took me by surprise with the fox girl raping him and all
April 6th, 2008 at 7:41 am
I don’t need my Key shows with more fanservice and ZANNY ADVENTURES plz.