The Beach Scene, The Confession, and The Incredibly Annoying Voice
Episode 8
The training camp continues and with it we get a boat-load of cliché type moments. Such as the introduced fiancé, the younger sister, the confession sequence, beach volleyball, and so on and so forth. This episode is actually packing in as many tropes as it can possibly fit in its run-time and it isn’t being particularly insightful about it.
However, unlike episode 7 of Kenja no Mago, episode 8 still manages to fall on just the right side of the line of being lame and generic but entertaining rather than just being lame and generic.
As much as the blushing girl and the dense male protagonist is a trope that annoys me, and there spluttering about here should have rubbed me the wrong way, there is just something inherently adorable about Shin and Sicily as a couple and I just can’t dislike this sequence. The fact that they go from acknowledgement of liking each other to confession in the space of one episode helps because if they’d prolonged it any longer we would have gotten back into fairly painful territory.
Outside of that, the volleyball sequence was actually funny. Sure it is ultimately an excuse to get the girls and boys in swimsuits and throw around some ridiculous magic attack names but there was a genuine humour to the scene and an energy that made it fairly palatable.
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But, I’m not just going to give this episode a pass. The younger sister introduced has in one episode won my award for this season’s most obnoxious character voice and as she squeaks her way through inane dialogue I just had to wonder who thought any human being should make such a sound regardless of age? It is truly horrendous and will go on my list with Asta, Tanya, and the English voice for Molly in Sailor Moon as voices that just need to be re-recorded and dubbed over because wow that was painful to listen to.
While going into this anime with any expectations would be a mistake, I’m still finding it more entertaining than tedious and this episode of Kenja no Mago definitely picked things up a little bit. It also seems like we are still heading toward an interesting magical confrontation, so all and all I’m happy enough to see where this goes. Still, I’ll be shocked if I even remember I watched this show come the end of the year.
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Karandi James
- Kenja no Mago Series Review
- Kenja no Mago Episodes 1 + 2
- Kenja no Mago Episodes 3 + 4
- Kenja no Mago Episode 5
- Kenja no Mago Episode 6
- Kenja no Mago Episode 7
- Kenja no Mago Episode 8
- Kenja no Mago Episode 9
- Kenja no Mago Episode 10
- Kenja no Mago Episode 11
- Kenja no Mago Episode 12
- Images from: Kenja no Mago. Dir. M Tamura. Silver Link. 2019.
we see Noelle has white skin long pink hair blue eyes she is statuesque athletic muscular beautiful sexy she has gigantic breasts long slender legs and a big ass she has built in non removable purple headband and a built in non removable purple choker she is naked when she comes out of her box we see Adam gives her a white sheet that she uses to clothe herself.
I have a brand new anime or manga featuring a normal forty year old workaholic businessman named Adam lee he lives in Tokyo Japan he lives alone in a apartment building he works in a office building one day he gets a robot named Noelle sent to his apartment the robot is inside a cardboard box.
From here on out If they Concentrate more on their confrontation between Demons and as I would like to call it “Shin army” that would be certainly interesting to watch because the stage has been set with the development of other characters where even they can go up against catastrophic level demons… I am not that much of a fan of a love story either but after their bonds have gotten stronger, the fear of losing Sicily or his other friends might be too much for shin so this can certainly change the tone of the story…. always enjoy your review.
Glad you enjoyed it. I’m a little worried they are setting up Sicily to be knocked off at this point even though this anime doesn’t seem like it is dark enough to do that for real.