Dumping Homeless Exposition
Nephy’s Choice, episode 4
Our Sorcerous Hero spends a month living in the lap of luxury
Nephy, able to carry on nearly-normal conversations and spend time
doing something they both enjoy. No, not that; I mean magic. Then he
gets promoted and decides to break it off for her own good. By
removing her slave collar and dumping her in an alley. No money to
build a life alone, and no protection from, say, slavers and sorcerers
who’d love to get their hands on a gorgeous elf for sex and/or
sacrifice. Why, yes, he is an idiot.
Verdict: “If you love something, dump it in an alley. If it comes back, that’s next week’s episode.”
Nut Salad, episode 3
In which Our Perky Homeless Knight eats the bugs and likes it, then spends the rest of the episode not getting indoctrinated into a cult. Nice touch having Our Cheap Detective check up on her after firing her from the agency, though. Try not to think too hard about Our Loli Cult Leader being sincere in her faith and using subliminal imagery and special effects to deceive her followers.
Verdict: fluffy fluff.
(perky knight is unrelated)
Slime Expo 3, episode 3
It’s exposition all the way down. Seriously, the entire season so far has just been wanking over details from the novels.
Rewatch: Yuuna And The Haunted Hot Springs + OVA 1-4
Today I Learned: “There. Are. Four. OVAs.”
The first one includes the widely-shared scene where Our Harem Hero is transformed into a bottle of bath soap and then rubbed into every nook and cranny of the girls’ bodies. This was the creative peak of harem anime fan-service.
The second one features Our White-Haired Little Piece Of Tail, Oboro
[literally; she was created out of the tail of a dragon]. Determined
to win the seed heart of Our Hero, she asks the other girls how
it’s done. Then the breast-obsessed loli tanuki hangs out with Our
Busty Normal Girl And Her Hot Busty Mom. Both stories go exactly as
you’d expect.
The third one features Our Tasty Catgirl Yaya’s epic dance battle against a hostile cat god, whose claws damage only her clothing, of course. The second half starts with Oboro again, before expanding to four of the girls doing idol cosplay karaoke.
The new-to-me fourth one has Our Hero accidentally cursed by a ghost, and the only cure is for 12 girls to give him an up-close look at their panties, while they’re wearing them; yes, the curse can tell if you try to cheat. Despite most of the cast having literally rubbed his nose in them on multiple occasions, they agonize over putting on a show, and a few of them fight over the display order.
When they finally break the curse, they discover that was only stage one, and they’ll have to do bras next. Sadly, that’s off-screen, and so is the third stage announced by the narrator, full nudity. That’s to make room for the second story, in which all the girls bathe together in the hot spring after the lolis add bath salts that are (of course) a powerful aphrodisiac. Wacky Hijinks Ensue™.
Of course, to get to 12 girls, they have to bring in characters who didn’t appear until later in the manga. All the OVAs were bundled with a manga volume, so the animation is only passable, with lots of panned stills, but it’s all for the sake of the cheesecake, which is fine.
(fun facts: the voice actor for Our Smothered Hero is in two shows this season, Mahjong Soul Kan! and Go! Go! Loser Ranger!; meanwhile, the voice of Our Ghostess With The Mostess is in Re:Monster and Jellyfish Can’t Swim In The Night)
Cast Photo
Merchandising!
The series may be over (for now), but the Molesting Magical Girls xTwitter account is announcing a bunch of merch to go with the Bluray release.
Squishy Chibi Keychains:
Based on this scene:
And of course there are mousepads:
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