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Winter 2018 First Impressions #16 - Poputepipikku


Mars Terra

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Today, I look at Poputepipikku, also known as Pop Team Epic. The premise is that there are two girls with Popuko being easy to anger and Pipimi never being irritated, and that's about as much plot as you're going to get.

So the show starts out with a guy named Daichi seeing his parents off on their trip, before being told not to give some girl named Sosogu a hard time. Then the opening plays, which shows the title as Hoshiiro Girldrop and with the show so vastly different when what I had imagined I thought maybe I clicked on the wrong show, but no, this is actually part of the episode. However, while Hoshiiro Girldrop doesn't come off as a good show in of itself, the 90 seconds it has before they switch to the real show will likely seem like a masterpiece to many when compared to the rest of the runtime.

The remaining time is essentially a series of very short and random scenes that don't connect with each other other then having the same two characters. There is little substance, sometimes there isn't any context at all, leading me to believe that the author of the original manga just wrote down whatever happened to come to mind and didn't try to expand upon those ideas in the least. One thing that happens frequently in them, though, is that one of the girls dies at the end with the one who dies usually being Popuko. The cuts between the sequences often depict the video being distorted which they eventually decide to delve into horror territory with, however, even that is short lived.

The artstyle for the fake anime at the start looks the much befitting of a anime, while the first few scenes after that appear as if they were drawn in mircosoft paint, thankfully this whole anime isn't drawn like that and switches to a style that is more decent, though only to the degree of being minimally passable. This is clearly a intentional decision, as these poor depiction extends over to the character design. Popuko and Pipimi are given pupils that don't fit and are leading out of their eye, and their mouths are nothing more than 3s and don't even open, they just bend and turn upside down. So the author of the manga doesn't seem to like how cute the art in every anime tends to be, which would be understandable since cuteness isn't for everyone, people are entitled to their own opinion.

Well, if you don't mind turning off your brain to watch something, then you could find this sort of thing to be enjoyable, but if that doesn't sound like you, then you're better off finding something else to watch. That is it for now, but be sure to also read my impressions on IDOLISH7 and Dame x Prince Anime Caravan, and I will return tomorrow with more first impressions, until then, thank you for reading and have a wonderful day.

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