I’m starting to wonder if this season of Osomatsu-san isn’t some kind of test to see just how much of a shield extreme popularity is. Because even for a late-night anime, this one pushes some boundaries extremely hard – and by push I mean” shred”. How in the world can you get away with an entire segment about onaholes (and if you have to Google that, you probably shouldn’t)? Making the participants cavemen doesn’t really change things materially either, I don’t think.
Honestly, the pre-open skit was really more shocking than funny for me – which in a nutshell was my main worry for this season of Osomatsu-san. When you follow up a hugely popular series that was notable for being both shocking and hilarious, it’s abjectly easier to try and be more shocking than more hilarious. It’s far too early to say that Osomatsu-san 2 is going to fall into that trap, because even in the first season a fair number of chapters missed the mark comedically – it’s just the nature of this type of show. But it has been my main worry from the moment S2 was announced.
The second – and main – chapter of the week was far more successful for me. Though it wasn’t especially hilarious it actually didn’t try to be – it was one of those that explores the darker and more realistic side of this dysfunctional family unit. In this instance, Choromatsu and Ichimatsu – left alone when their four brothers go off to play pachinko (before realizing they had no money). After a self-referential allusion to this being a “rare pairing”, the two face off for an extraordinarily awkward ten minutes or so. I don’t come from a big family (I have two sisters who are several years older than me but close in age), but I imagine in a six-sibling formation there’d be a pairing or two that just don’t connect on any level. The “distance” gag was especially on-point, but the whole thing was squirmy in a good way.
Finally we had what I took to be one of the most random things I’ve seen in anime – Tototo for some reason in an all-girls eating contest, and the whole thing being overseen by a buff and beloved M.C. called Shouei who kept having bizarre interactions with the brothers as Totoko got more and more pissed off. I was ready to totally embrace this as pure bizarre genius (especially having Iyami insert himself with his “Shooueei!”) but it turns out (believe it or not) this is based on a real thing. There’s a show called “Oogui Big Eater” which is hosted by s comedian named Shouei – who plays himself in this episode of Osomatsu-san. The fact that a show about cute girls binge eating exists in Japan is wonderful enough, but that it crossed over to anime and Osomatsu-san is the icing on the cake (or hundred cakes). Now that’s a moment only Osomatsu-san is going to deliver.
Simone
October 18, 2017 at 1:26 amYeah, the Shouhei segment was truly random – the over-the-top interactions between the Matsus and Shouhei were best, but too bad the whole thing ended quite abruptly as if they simply ran out of time. The onahole segment, well, the idea of a caveman carving a onahole in wood was funny enough, but then when they had to follow the usual pattern of “repeat the gag 5 more times, one for each brother, in increasingly ridiculous ways” it got just weird. Anyway, this would just be the 2nd most extreme onahole-based gag I’ve seen in anime – for the first one, there was an episode of Shimoneta, that anime about a pervy terrorist trying to get around government-mandated censorship and put together a curriculum on sex ed for high schoolers the way a horny 15 year old would imagine it to be, that not only prominently featured a homemade onahole in the episode, but *replaeced the ED for that episode with a live action demonstration of how to build it for yourself with materials found at home, Art Attack style*.
elianthos
October 18, 2017 at 3:33 am*angelic educational face * for Paleo contraptions see under
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A2ton_de_commandement#Description_and_function
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The last segment didn’t do much for me ( no archeology ties and no cute mammoths in love!) but the awkward brotherhood skit was good pain – in my case it reminded me a lot of my father and his two siblings relationship :,) . I have two (step-)sibs myself but we never met and it’s unlikely we’ll ever do due to a variety of reasons -.
Stefan
October 18, 2017 at 3:44 amI’m totally in your shoes, though I’ve met my two step-sibs a few times in a period of one month far away and long ago.
Simone
October 18, 2017 at 6:47 amLOL. Love that the hypothesis is tucked right at the end. Knowing human horniness, it probably has a fair chance of being right.
elianthos
October 19, 2017 at 3:26 am@Stefan: a toast to lost/far away siblings and dear ones then :,)
@Simone: and sized holes too. All-in-one design genius. A few millennia later from a man’s tomb in China… *nsfw for elegantly stylized but definitely unmistakable bronze artifact* https://twitter.com/Liuwdere/status/727069965795364864
bonus: it has English captions
bonus II: sensible flared base!
bonus III: the archaeologist’s oh-so-amused you-catch-my-drift face relaying the discovery. Still a world of dignified away and above compared to a certain BBC doc presenter devolving into juvenile giggles during the Tokyo fertility matsuri interview to the priestess in this – concept-wise rather cool – series http://docuwiki.net/index.php?title=Feasts . I’m still amazed the chinko shrine miko didn’t whack him on the head with a holy dildo. //educational intimacy implements historical digression