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Comedy is definitely a personal beast, maybe more so than any other genre. Inspired by this show I went back and read the first few pages of the Mitsudomoe thread, and see a lot of the same words being tossed around, for and against. It's just hard to predict what will strike any one person as funny and another as offensive or stupid.
For me, if this show is going to work it's going to be as a comedy, not for the fanservice. In the first place I don't generally watch anime for fanservice anyway (with exceptions for Fairy Tail's Lucy and a few others). In the second, I think the fanservice not being the point sort of is the point. Maybe I'm giving the LNs too much credit but I think the sheer absurdity of a kid like Taketo writing porn - and the sheer absurdity of the stuff he comes up with - is actually the joke. It's making fun of a 15 year-old's idea of what "sexy" is - and of the people who buy up the crap he writes.
I've already said that the bit with the missiles and the general tone of all the girls beating up Taketo is going to get old very quickly if it becomes a centerpiece of the series. And if I'm dead wrong and this really is just an excuse for fanservice (which actually seemed more gratuitous and pointless in ItsuTen to me than it did here) this will become tiresome in nanoseconds flat. But I definitely had a different take on the premiere than most, and I want to give this some time to prove who's right.
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