The story of my life…OH SHI-
Okay, the second episode of Trapeze was probably the funniest shit I’ve seen this year. In fact I’d say that a person who didn’t find it funny has no sense of humor at all. If the show keeps this up, it will quite certainly rank as one of the best anime I have ever seen. I really can’t recall laughing this much to an anime episode ever since Seto no Hanayome OVA.
This just keeps getting better by every rewatch.
Then again, it can be debated whether or not you can even classify Trapeze as anime because it utterly ignores all the standards and traditions of TV anime. It is animated, for the most part, but does not actually behave as the vast majority of anime we see today. It’s like a vegetarian anarchist kid in a conservative Christian family. Thus I see the argument of Trapeze being a pseudo-anime somewhat justified. That doesn’t make it any less awesome though. If you think anime is superior to any live action entertainment ever made then you will probably not like Trapeze – and have my sympathies because your life is going to be a barren elitist desert. There are no cute animu wimmin, nasty 3D is occasionally layered in and you won’t find goofy otaku reference parodies anywhere. The rest of you, enjoy the humorous exploration into the twisted human psyche and the field of mental illnesses. This is about as original as anime can ever get.
Anyway, the second episode is about a poor bastard suffering from a penile anklyosis due to an unknown cause. That is, he has a constant boner. And making things worse, he works at a ward office where almost all his coworkers are female.
A rhino is fine too.
Behold the power of me-uh-bagspin!
Boner-tan pinchi!
Spoilertastic for some who didn’t seem to get the main joke in this episode:
Okay, the whole deal about this is that the episode itself is one huge pun. Taguchi gets a permanent raging boner because he has let women walk all over him and boss him around. He is not cured until at the end of the episode he finally stands up for himself.
I’m half and half on Trapeze’s awesomness. It has such a wild sense of humour, what with the bagspin and everything, plus I love the change the nurse makes from 2D to 3D. On the other hand, I HATE the real-people faces and sometimes it feels like it’s doing things just for the sake of being different rather than because it actually fits.
However, one thing for certain is that more anime need bagspins.