I've chosen some dangerous waters to swim through with this... but I have decided to informally review the anime series Kämpfer
Plot Summary: Senou Natsuru is your normal, everyday high school student. However he´s been chosen to be a Kampfer, who´s objective consists on fighting other Kampfer with either guns, swords or magic, however, there´s catch; first you can´t chose if you´re a Kampfer or not, and second, you must have the body of a girl to use your powers. (AnimeNewsNetwork)
The rest of this entry is spoilers
so far I've watched the first episode. and I'm only impressed by the somewhat interesting opening scene at the start.
I'll put it down to the point that most of the humor is by the same concept of my blog name. 'Lost in translation' "arousal, I don't mean it like that." when referring to the sense of arousal to fight as opposed to sexual arousal... and there's some sexual humor... suffice to say it's rather retarded.
summary for this episode is:
Opening action scene where two females, who we later learn to be Natsuru (blue haired-genderbending guy) and Akane Mishima (red-haired psycho/orangy-haired shy girl).
chase each other through city parks and through buildings, Akane attempting to shoot Natsuru, until Natsuru runs to the top of a very tall building, then jumps off.
((and then then the opening credits roll and I lose all faith in this show being anything but surrealist comedy))
Next we get a corny half-assed introduction to what a Kämpfer is (or rather might be) and Natsuru wakes up to find him/herself as a female... big-breasted and wearing blue striped panties of all things... and a disgusting, creature come soft-toy with it's intestines coming out speaks up, Harakiri tiger. Natsuru notices the bracelet on her arm, which will glow before she transforms. Natsuru picks up the soft-toy, by the intestine, (it feels pain for some reason) and she slams it into the desk yelling "I'm a guy". Natsuru is then knocked out by the soft-toy before he wakes up as a guy again.
He misses the bus but then walks into his love interest Sakura , who lent him that wierd soft-toy.
the bracelet starts to glow, he makes a poor excuse so he can run away. before, lo and behold, Akane jumps from the shadows shooting at Natsuru... Natsuru runs, Akane chases, they fight... eventually it's sortof resolved as Natsuru tackles Akane, to push her out of the way of a falling lightpost and from there it's a skip to school.
where Natsuru meets Akane in her non-Kampfer form where he is told that the Kampfers are made to fight against each other, they each have one of three types of weapons (told to us by another of these soft-toy animals with their entrails hanging out). The weapons are: Guns (what akane uses), Magic (known as Zauber, which is what Natsuru uses) and a sword-type weapon known as Schwert. ((there's a large amount of german here... and a lot of foul words, as well as references to the voice actors... Publicity much?))
and then there's the sexual humor "a big and black gewehr" (and for those who don't know a Gewehr is a rifle). More sexual humor... if you want to know what happens watch it for yourself.
Natsuru transforms for one reason or another, and they go through the female side of the school ((side note: it was mentioned early that there were to sides to the school for males and females however this is the first instance where we the viewers are shown it)). they hide out for a while and it turns out that natsuru (in female form) needs to use the toilet. More sexual humor (in a sense) and a skip to after school.
Sakura meets up with Natsuru (Male) and where she reveals that she likes Natsuru's female form.
the next day, natsuru and akane meet in the library, they become friendlier (no honorifics), and another kampfer shows up (sword type) there's a fight, no-one sees who was fighting, until Sakura just so happens to appear behind a book-case that was cut down. Akane rashly suspect sakura, cliffhanger.
End of episode 1.
I know it's not quite a summary... but the key development happens within the first few episodes so it's a bit more detailed... eventually I'll probably get down to x fights Y and z or something like that... or drop it...
References:
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com.au/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=10861
Saturday, March 27, 2010
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