Kemeko Deluxe!

Title:Kemeko Deluxe!
Kemeko-DX, The Unknown Girl Friend
The Unknown Girl Friend
ケメコデラックス!
Overall:Unevaluated
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Notables: KITAMURA Eri
SAITO Chiwa
TOMATSU Haruka
The high-school student Sanpeita had reoccurring dreams in which he was engaged to a beautiful girl. Then one morning, a strange homely girl suddenly breaks through a wall in his bedroom to tell him that she is his bride and that her name is Kemeko. Confused and bewildered by the girl, Sanpeita fled his house and escapes to school, but Kemeko follows. And things got only stranger when Sanpeita was targeted by something that looks like a rice cooker on the school's rooftop. As Sanpeita and his childhood friend Izumi were being attacked, strange little Kemeko intervenes to save them both. Just who is Kemeko? Someone who claims to be Sanpeita's new steel bride!?

Sanpeita is surprised to learn that Kemeko is really a girl-style powered-combat-suit and that the pilot is actually a cute girl. A heavily armed and violent girl perhaps, but still very cute.

Based on a manga by Iwasaki Masakazu, serialised in Dengeki Comic Gao. Read the translated manga online at - OneManga.

Animation by Hal Film Maker.
New series to aire in Oct 5th '08.

1:30min Series Opening - YouTube Video
1:30min Series Ending - YouTube Video
Episode Details 
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Unevaluated chibi #
I don't know, I can like a show that's funny but doesn't make sense, or visa-versa, but this one doesn't seem to have either. Amped-up action isn't an adequate substitute, but I'm still watching to see what develops.

Oh, and I think Tenshi Ni Narumon featured an attack by a giant rice cooker.

Last updated Sunday, October 26 2008. Created Sunday, October 26 2008.
Unevaluated Jan-Chan #
(Four episodes watched)

A very strange series that does not make a lick of sense. No real linear plot here!!! Just mass anarchy, paired with gratuitousness amounts of fanservice and over-the-top slapstick violence. Stretch might use the term whacked!! I just might want to call it silly, funny and WEIRD!!

Together with Macademi Wasshoi!, these are my current 'nonsensical' comedic favorites.... Don't try to figure anything out, so it is best to just sit back-n-watch and hang-on for the ride.....

Last updated Tuesday, November 11 2008. Created Monday, October 13 2008.
Unevaluated Stretch #
(Four episodes watched):

This show is whacked--it takes a sort of gleefully naughty attitude. I approve; if there's going to be fanservice, make it absurd, laughable fanservice. The animation style of the action scenes reminds me of old American cartoons of the 'twenties or 'thirties. I really, really did not want one of the principal characters to be drawn in a hideously ugly SD mode, but I breath a sigh of relief now that I see that that wasn't the case. This looks like fun.

Jokes are good, but during episode two what I really wanted was some hint of what the hell is going on and who this strange woman is, especially if she's not Sanpeita's childhood sweetheart. I'd have gladly traded a number of good jokes for some information. In episode three the balance between jokes and confusion worked better, for me at least. One nice touch: Sanpeita is thrown through the air and lands on his head in what would be a fatal or crippling way in real life. It happens everyday in anime, of course, and the characters are back to normal in fifteen seconds, except that here the absurdity is reinforced as his head even smashes a hole in the concrete.

Will this show ever make any sense? It's funny, but somehow a lack of a foundation to fix the jokes to makes it difficult to fully enjoy them. When "clues" to this strange woman's story turn up, should they be taken seriously or are they just part of jokes?

My favorite line (so far): "Ah, I overreacted by throwing him from the third floor window"

Last updated Thursday, November 06 2008. Created Saturday, October 11 2008.
Unevaluated Forbin #
First Look:

For something I considered a 'Guarantee' the first episode was sorta boring.

Macademia was much more fun than this.

Last updated Thursday, October 09 2008. Created Thursday, October 09 2008.

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Wikipedia (English) Info Page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemeko_Deluxe!
Japanese Series Web Site http://kemeko.jp/

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