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I haven’t blogged in a long time, for reasons I don’t think I need to explain.  It’s pretty common sense as to what I’ve been up to considering I’m in my last year of post-secondary studies.

Anyway, anime is still, somehow, on the top of my list of priorities.  Someone should really knock some sense into me.  Nonetheless, no one’s reading this to find out about my boring life.  On to Kampfer.

I get the impression that many denizens of the intrawebs aren’t too fond of this series.  I, personally, have never read the manga, so I don’t know how it compares.  However, this is my take on it.  Let’s start this off with the normal format of my boring posts (yes, I’m the type who lives by routine, form is everything).

Summary:
Senou Natsuru is your typical high school guy… however typical guys can be (excuse the sexist comment).  He receives a creepy stuffed animal from his crush, Sakura.  The stuffed animal is essentially a nasty little tiger with it’s intestines hanging out.  One day the tiger comes to live and tells Natsuru that he is a Kampfer, a “chosen one” who has to fight as a girl.  This, obviously, means that he has to transfer into a girl whenever he fights.  After finding out, he encounters another Kampfer who wants to shoot an extra hole into his ass.  However, she appears at an inconvenient time as Natsuru happened to run into Sakura.  So the fight begins, and Natsuru manages to transform into a girl without Sakura noticing.  He/she fights the other Kampfer, who’s a red-head, hot-blooded gunslinger, and in the process, manages to save her from being crushed by a telephone pole.  Sakura, who witnessed the entire fight, found female Natsuru highly attractive, and thus, complicates things for Natsuru’s feeble heart. =_= Later on, Natsuru finds out that the Kampfer, Akane, is on the same “team” as he is, and they become friends. Another threat eventually shows up, and it turns out that Shizuku, the school president, is an Kampfer on the opposing team.  And the story continues…

My thoughts:
The storyline isn’t mind-blowing.  Kind of amusing, but not spectacular.  However, I find this show highly amusing due to the KIND of humour presented here.  I love how they ignore the fourth wall, and constantly throw insults at each other’s seiyuu.  The one part where Natsuru and Akane were talking about Akane’s black bunny, the “Tamura Yukari-sound-alike”, was especially amusing.  They also made reference to the old lady who voiced Shizuka in Doraemon, and poked fun at Horie Yui as Akane.  In the second episode, I had a nice laugh at the Mizuki Nana moment.  Other than poking fun at seiyuu, they also parody other shows.  At the end of the preview of the 3rd episode, one can see the infamous Marimite scene, except with the characters replaced.  All in all, the parodies and the inside jokes really make this show a lot more enjoyable than most people seem to think.

Here’s my two-bits.  I’m too lazy to put up any pictures.  Comments are welcomed (actually, encouraged, just so I know whether or not people still read this shit XD).