Kinda weird that there are two motorsports and one Soda Masahito series this season, and his isn’t one of them.
MF Ghost – 01
First off, I know basically nothing about Initial D, which MF Ghost is seemingly an indirect sequel to. So for me this is basically an original series. It focuses on a near future where internal combustion cars are extinct on the road, and survive only in a kind of snow globe world of exotic car racing.
I have a couple of observations about this premiere, which was basically OK (TBH the best thing about it was Miki Shinichirou as the narrator) but weird. First off, the character designs looked really ugly to me – retro (on purpose I suppose) but not in a good way. Second, holy product placement, Batman. Sukiya clearly wrote the biggest check but it was loaded. That bit about Sukiya being a classic Japanese meal was pretty LOL, I admit (hey, it is the best of the big three).
Mostly, though, the “old-fashioned” attitudes here were pretty striking. The way the girls acted was hilariously 1970s, and those “Angel” uniforms – I mean, a 16 year-old acting as a mascot literally wearing panties? That extends to the “wow, Japan is so great” stuff. That got so over the top that I started to wonder if it was self-parody. “Wow, Japanese food is amazing. Wow, Japanese is so hard, I can’t believe an ignorant hafu can speak it. Naturally, Japan has the racing circuit the whole world is obsessed with and their cars are the best.”
All that was a lot to take, but on the whole the episode itself wasn’t bad. It did make me LOL a few times, intentionally or not. The racing side has potential to be modestly interesting. I don’t see much chance I blog this show (I have higher hopes for Overtake!) but I’ll give it another week or two.
Megami no Daigo – 01
I’m a bit fan of Soda Masahito’s Capeta, which I consider to be among the ten best sports manga (and anime, probably) ever. So I had a certain amount of hope for this sequel to his 1995 manga, which also got an anime adaptation back in the day. But to be honest, the premiere left me pretty cold.
Megami no Daigo shares the big name narrator trait with MF Ghost (this time it’s Tsuda Kenjirou). But let’s be honest, “firefighters are really brave and heroic” is pretty low-hanging fruit. And that’s all I really got out of this – a lot of fawning over how great these guys (and the occasional girls) are. That’s fine, but not especially entertaining. If there’s more to it (and I don’t have any exposure to the original series to compare it against) I didn’t get it out of the first episode. The leash here is going to be a very short one.
Ragna Crimson – 01
TBH I only got about five minutes (generously) in before I bailed. Ragna Crimson screams “generic modern fantasy” from ever atom, and Leo was incredibly insufferable literally from the first minute. Nope, not the target audience for this one.
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