Cinnamon Ass

No OP

ED - Beautiful World (Marina Inoue) - CG dancing bunnies and okama artwork set to a rather mundane little song.

Mina Tsukuda, a high school student, lands a job as a mascot at Luna TV working on their news and sports coverage; she’s clumsy but well-meaning, with a bizarre hatred of carrots, but otherwise mostly normal. However, when sent off in the wrong direction to get changed by her arch-rival at the station, she happens upon an alien that has taken over the body of a baseball player; the alien is attacked by a huge-breasted bunny girl warrior named Mina Ootsuki, a member of the Rabbit Force, who chases the globular alien onto the pitch where it morphs into a giant shiny CG baseball player and beats her up a lot. However, Mina (student Mina, not bunny Mina) gets visited by a giant interstellar baby who transforms her into a further member of the Rabbit Force, Mina Tsukishiro; with her newly enlargened bosoms and enormous carrots sticking out of her buttocks she’s ready to take on the evil aliens with the power of “juice-jitsu”
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This show is a spin-off of the wildly popular Densha Otoko live-action series, which featured the Mina (Tsukishiro!) character as a mascot. It’s therefore relatively unsurprising that Getsumen To-Heiki Mina has turned out to be formulaic and pretty uninteresting. It’s just like so many other anime out there; cute girls with big breasts, daft attacks, “random” humour, an ojou-sama rival etc. It’s not that these elemnts have to be bad in themselves; they’re just put together in a prety uninspiring way here, with generally lackluster artwork (okama’s beautiful drawings just don’t seem to transfer well to anime, unfortunately, and the CG is BakuTen-style awfulness) and writing and acting by numbers. Sure, it’s got fanservice, but so does virtually everything these days; there are other shows out there that just do everything better, frankly.

Mina’s not an awful show, I guess, and the introduction of more super-powered bunny girls could make it all a bit more exciting, but as it is I can’t see any reason why I’d continue to watch it. Furthermore, I presume that a lot of Densha Otoko’s audience was ordinary people who probably poke fun at the 2ch otaku stereotypes, who are presumably the only people who’d be watching this; I can’t imagine that there’s a massive audience out there for this show really when it’s just so much like any other.

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