Kampfer – 01: A Most Magical Boy
October 9th, 2009
Yes you have gained weight and you are also now a girl, but hey at least you you will be getting more female attention from now on…
Sorry this is so very late but this month reality has been wreaking terrible vengeance on me at work and at home. So it seems that the boys and girls of gg have branded Kampfer as the shittiest thing they have ever subbed, but me thinks their memory be too short. In any case gg being honest aside Kampfer seems less like a poor man’s Queen’s Blade and more like a satire of magical girl at least to me any way. Instead of having a little girl who seeks to better herself and her love life we get a boy who chases a lesbian, such is this boy’s sorry state that his powered up form is a girl. That alone says plenty of the decrepit state of the Japanese male and the weaboos who want to be them. At any rate Kampfer is the perfect way to maximize the seiyu talent they brought on board and they will not let the viewer forget it. I am of the opinion that any fan of the cast should tune in and endure the pain to hear them SHINE IN THE NAME OF ZEUS. Any one who refuses will have theirfanboy/fangirl license revoked and are unworthy of Zeus’ light and are the kind of sick cowards who afraid of paper cuts. I confess I do take an inordinate amount of sadistic glee at reading how many braincells people lost as a result of this it is my sincere hope thatgg solidify their reputation for trolling by helping Kampfer kill braincells and kill more braincells. Ah yes a great cry went out into the blogoshpere as is if a great many people suddenly cried out in pain and then suddenly fell silent…I think something wonderful has happened! Long live Brokeness! Be it broken sexual preferences or BROKEN MINDS! Kampfer shall SMASH EVERY BRAIN CELL INTO ATOMS!
While this show is decidedly fan servicey I was surprised by the utter lack of panty shots to go with it and withing the series itself the only henshin sequence was that of the dude which does mitigate the fappability for most I suppose but increase exponentially for some. As a veteran of all of Ranma 1/2 this genderbend is nothing new, and also since THAT is supposed to cover as many trap centered animu series as we can I have been volunteered to slog through this, as Calawain and ExecutiveOtaku pay good money for all of my weaponry and medical benefits.Also Impz is still desperately trying to earn enough money to marry 13Sugars so it basically leaves me as I have little appreciation for fear and seem to be impervious to pain so long as there is yuri, to spread the gospel of trappiness . At any rate I did like the fluid combat though it isn’t top level stuff yet, but at least there is promise that things might get better once the Blue Team loses their rookie status. I have to commend them for going with a Red vs. Blue dynamic and hope that there will be a most interesting debate about how to name vehicles be it warthog or puma. While ghostlightning thought the references were lame I have to disagree since 0080 is but a dim and distant memory for most fans these days and they also inserted a Turn AGundam reference as well as a Planetes one too. Given how the staff seems to have decent taste in Gundam (0080 was good but I worry about this lack of 8th MS Team and 0083 love) I hold out hope that they are not totally incompetent.
At any rate given how much magical girl anime I have watched of the the course of my miserable existence Kampfer does use many of the same tropes, and subverts them like in the case of those animal sidekicks. Hell even the love interest being in love with the alter-ego is dragged out for a beating as Sakura seems to have the hots for Natsuru girl-type and thinks the male type is a sack of potatoes. The male lead while nominally male lives in a SUGOI pink house and while it does have that harem animu setup as a guy only Akane is showing any interest in his male form, but Akane is also bi and likes Girl-type Natsuru too. While we have seen many of those gut wrenching boy on top of girl scenes before I think they played it for laughs when the book was getting all the action, even the class president called them out for their behavior, and most delightfully of all was that Akane tried to throw Natsuru under the bus as a lecherous bastard. I agree that on the surface it is nothing new but I do believe that Nomad is trolling mahou shoujo and harem at the same time. Admittedly most magical girl shows have reasons for fighting, but not all of them are good and seem more like fetch quests anyways, and here it is simply cast aside with no reason being given other than they must all fight because they are elite. Guess what, it works well enough since the winner getting some sort of prize has been done to death and why bother coming up with a shit justification when you can have fighting for the sake of fighting, at least that is a little more honest than crap like World Peace.
I have even found my OTP in AkanexGirl-Type Natsuru as Akane is Bi and therefore awesome. Maybe it will be like Wagaya Oniari-sama in that Girl-Type Natsuru becomes the predominant form. Either way this is THAT and thus for better or worse this is a keeper.
Calawain’s Cross-dressing Corner
Calawain hereby accepts Akane as Lord and Savior. I hereby accept AkanexGirl-type Natsuru ship as my OTP.
This is one of those series whose story premise sounds much more retarded in animated form when you have to listen to the seiyuu tell it compared to glazing over it in manga or book form. I mean, the story is really stupid, girls (or Natsuru) become Kampfer and they have to fight! In addition, Maria Inoue sounds really horrible voicing a guy, not believable in the least. She sounds great as the female Natsuru, but wow it sounds really bad in “male” form.
That being said I still enjoyed the episode generally, surprisingly enough Hocchan pulled off Akane’s batshit insane Kampfer personality wonderfully. We had a decent amount of action (I can see where they sent the budget from the second half of Yoku Wakaru) and lots of cute bishoujos to go around. Plus lots of German words (German always sounds wicked in militaristic settings), although probably used incorrectly. Good thing I don’t know German and won’t care. I’ll be watching this show, and perhaps leaving my 2 cents when Crusader makes posts on it.
Yes YURI HAREM!
ROFLMAO Hetero non-harem.
Well let’s hope she’s not using them to make sausages…
I have never seen some one so happy about morning wood.
Even his house is girly.
Why so he can sit in the back and give up his seat for you?
So this is who is responsible for all this…
Assuming you believe in Zeus of course…
Kampfer Braclet POWER!
It’s Sailor Qo’noS!
You are also both on the Blue Team but don’t let that stop you.
If only Girl-type Natsuru had two bazookas, a shotgun, and a chain mine amirite ghostlightning?
Kudos for staring at her ass.
Don’t hesitate she has a suitcase bomb!
Oh so it can tell time too…
It’s Revolutionary Girl Natsuru! If only she had a sword…
Compromising position is compromising.
So sad she did not participate as well…
Wow they actually bothered to learn some geography.
No you call it a Permit! A PERMIT THAT MAKES YOU A ONE MAN ARMY!
Especially losers.
If only he made a snarky remark.
Love at first ride I bet…
Why yes her headband does magically disappear, just like your weakness and your pants.
Akane likes big butts and she cannot lie. You other guys can’t deny!
And so womanly…
Oh the Red Team, Mikoto is on it along with her good friend Donut…oh and welcome to the Blood Gulch Front.
You don’t even have to listen carefully…
FUCK YEAH NAME DROP.
Umm can I get that English please?
Dang Turn A, Planetes, and Tytania?
Oddly enough this is how weapons are often described.
It was a pistol!
I have never been so interested in reading before…
Well it’s not like they dragged it out.
But what about you ma’am?
Way to throw him under the bus Akane.
Look who are we going to believe the cute one or the guy?
BUT TOTALLY AWESOME!
Hello what have we here?
Yeah it’s amazing how clean the girl side of the school is…
Wait so they filter the air there?
NO PANTSU NO PANTSU!
Well I am sure there is someone out there who wants to be abused by a Yui Horie sound-a-like…
Wait why are we on the roof?
Psst. Akane opportunity is knocking.
During your time as a girl your body will feel things it has never felt before…
You find that PMS is NO JOKE.
I won’t lie this is going to hurt…
It’s that time of month…though a month has not yet passed.
Ah the Undiscovered Country, oddly enough this is about the same quality as Shatner’s performance in Star Trek VI…
So please do go on
Man that is like the Cadillac of Toilets.
Akane is getting cockblocked…
She’s just not into you…but she is in to the other you.
Let’s face it you weren’t much of a man to begin with…
Beggars cannot be choosers.
Sound advice is sound!
Indeed let Boy-type Natsuru feel teh pain of unrequited love, Akane will love Natsuru either way, though she does prefer Girl-type Natsuru
I was going to call her V but that works…
Triggering a flag eh?
I cannot help but smile when Killer-type Akane shows up.
Precisely…now for a bit of fun eh?
Among other things yes…
I surprised she did not cop a feel.
LET”S BE FRIENDLY!
…
She said, “LET’S BE FRIENDLY…”
Akane knows that Girl-type Natsuru seems to attract more attention…
Wait isn’t it the other way around?
Ah HA! So the villain finally shows herself!
Give it up lass, Sakaura might as well mean treachery now…
Akane is also mildly Yandere too…
If only one of them also wore loose socks…
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