Love Hina is another wonderful love triangle comedy, this time centered around a boy who is actively searching for his childhood love in order to fulfill their promise of going to Tokyo University once they have grown up. The anime is turning Kenji’s unfortunate and rather sad fate – to never be recognised and loved by Tenma – into a light-hearted comedy – and it is in fact hard to not feel bad for laughing. Tenma’s cooking can be so bad that others will stay away from her meals, – while Kenji will sacrifice himself to make her happy, the worst part is that she will never realise how deadly her cooking can be. Kenji – a soft, dumb classmate – loves the innocent and childish Tenma, who is also oblivious to the boy’s interest towards her. The characters of this school love-fiasco have their own quirks and silly traits, such as Karasuma, who happens to have a bowl cut and is often imagined by Tenma and other characters as a kappa, – a japanese mythological being with a turtle shell on its back. Tenma, a silly dumb pony-tailed girl who cannot cook is infatuated with her crush, Karasuma, a rather plain looking, expressionless but good-at-everything male classmate who is oblivious to her advances. School Rumble is a high school romantic comedy that revolves around love triangles and unrequited love. This anime is confusing and has dark, but charming humor and plays on themes of male sexuality and masculinity. Things happen fast and although the boy is forced into a devious plot to conquer the world, he seems to just give into it all and accept his fate.
And to add to this, after the first blow, the boy gains a strange condition where a huge robot-alien being manifests itself from within the bump on his forehead. Needless to say, an episode won’t go by without seeing a guitar to the face. Additionally, the unfortunate and violent abuse towards the boy is also part of this anime’s rather dark humour. The girl’s actions and flamboyant entrances make her the center of this comedy. A young boy’s life is drastically changed by the sudden appearance of a selfish and self-centered woman, as she runs him over with her yellow Vespa scooter, performs CPR to resuscitate him, and then finishes him off with a blow to the head with her carry-on bass guitar, all while the boy’s friend watches helplessly. It’s as if the visuals cannot handle the speed at which things are happening and everything’s on a speed trip. Faces are stretched beyond recognition and bodies are distorted. FLCL (Fooly Cooly) is an absurd anime with odd, furious, and dynamic visuals.
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