This is rather a ‘dead Alfirin’ day; only nowhere near as cool or artistic as the dead Piro days which Megatokyo has treated us to. Since I’m going home in just over a week I doubt I’ll be able to get my hands on as much anime as I can up in Durham, so I’ve been watching as much as possible recently. There are going to be pseudo-reviews of some of them as and when I have time to do something about it, but for now you’ll just be subjected to incoherent rambling about a series I’d probably not have mentioned otherwise :S
The return of Genshiken was greatly anticipated by many people who saw the first series, and though I’ve only seen the first episode of Genshiken II so far it certainly doesn’t disappoint ^_^. Genshiken’s going to be granted a post of its very own, but it was because of watching the first episode that I decided to watch Doujin Work.
Having finally taken note of the word doujin (despite almost certainly having come across it before) I found this series and a few reviews that said it was rather good: little did I know that this was about people who wrote… um… dodgy manga. Well, I almost gave up after the first episode.
Doujin Work is 12 episodes long, and each episode is a little under quater of an hour in length. It follows the adventures of a girl called Najimi Osana as she decides to make her fortune as a doujin artist. Somehow she ends up drawing adult manga, so the series is basically pleasant nonsense involving repeated embarrassment when the main character is caught ‘researching’ into making better manga.
I’m glad I decided to watch the second episode (and continue for the remainder of the series) despite my initial distaste, because it became evident that there was nothing bad in the anime itself – when people read the manga you only have an idea that it’s not children’s stuff because of the reaction people have when they read the books. It’s actually a nice little story which simply takes the mickey out of’ero’ manga (even the name of the lead is a pun: osananajimi means ‘childhood friend’ – a common theme in anime). So if you’ve got some spare time I’d suggest watching Doujin Work, because it’s actually rather good fun ^_^
