Senseeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!
Happy Thanksgiving!
I'm thankful for a lot of things (being awake at 6 AM on a holiday not included), but none of them will be in this entry :Db
Months and months after I'd given up on it (more like just got distracted by shinier, prettier, less crappy things) I'm trying to finish Season 6 of Kinpachi-sensei. It's painful, though. Like, the awfulness of Gachibaka and Ie ga Tooi combined, times a hundred. Trillion. Everything that was wrong with the finale of Last Friends, but in every episode. Dunno, it seems like as soon as I gave up on it the three (that being Shige, Massu, and Koyama XD) started referencing it again, which made me get all nostalgic for it because I am clearly insane.
Turns out I'd already seen the best part, though. Kinpachi-sensei beating the snot out a student's druggie older brother, jumping through a burning wall to rescue his parakeets, and then being smothered in a dogpile of weepy underage boys (Massu included!) while the BUILDING IS STILL ON FIRE AND COLLAPSING AROUND THEM was really this show's shining moment. It will never not be funny. It requires giffin'.
But all the trauma in the past five episodes has been OMGEXAMZ (HaseKen keeps failing LOLOLOOOLOLOLOL), as if a drama about thirty 15-year-olds wasn't inherently whiny enough, so someone obviously needs to die and bring the real waaaahhngst. I hereby nominate Kinpachi-sensei's son. Kosaku? Whatever, that'd be great. And conveniently done! You know, cause of all the cancer. Ooh, and another benefit - angsty Kazapon! I love him. Except he's pretty much disappeared since whatshisface started getting better. His screentime is inversely proportional to how healthy that guy is. Therefore: KOSAKU, DIE ALREADY. And then Kinpachi-sensei can adopt Kazapon or something. WHY AM I NOT WRITING THIS SHOW.
Also, didn't know this season contained the oft-talked about hysterical pregnancy storyline brief mention. The whole spiel was introduced and concluded in ten minutes. "Oh, she was just lonely and stressed about exams, and those feelings manifested themselves in an imaginary baby...yeah! Yeah, let's go with that one. Meeting ADJOURNED!" (cut to the girl sobbing, clearly still in the midst of a mental breakdown). And then ew - EW - the teacher she was in love with and had been stalking, in order to cheer her up, was like "I can't promise you marriage, but after you finish high school, let's go on a date." IN FRONT OF HER MOM. WHAT.
I usually find this show kind of hilariously awful but that was so bad I was cringing. Seriously, I wonder how Kinpachi-sensei got its reputation as the show that deals with the real issues, because nothing is actually dealt with, just conveniently swept under the rug. The kids suffer until Sensei's finally found the right words to justify dismissing their issues as...basically, teen angst. He words it all poetically while strings swoon in the background, but all he's ever been saying is "your [gender identity disorder/dad's attempted suicide/relentless bullying/being left for dead by your older brother/witnessing a gruesome murder/kidnapping by a pedophile] is just part of growing up, get over it".
Which has a time and a place, yes. A crusade against the whiny little emo bitches of the world is commendable, surely, and if that was what Sensei was actually doing I'd be his biggest fan~ ♥ But it's not even so bad it's good anymore, it's so bad it's insulting.
Massu and Shige's characters still appear free of any Issues™, which is a little disappointing, because it seems like a requirement for graduation is suffering some horrific personal tragedy. Those two? Nuthin' :( But now that the smart kids have failed, the raburabu couple have split, the bullied girl came back to school, the queen bee defected to the dork kids' side and with the crazy stalker chick out of the way, that one kid's older brother in jail and Ueto Aya happily on her way to acquiring a penis, maybe we'll find out HaseKen is a total psychopath. I hope so. That'd be awesome.
Somewhat related, in the past two episodes Shige's had lines where he talks all normally and then he'll suddenly get all emo and mumble in this deep voice, and it's so funny. It's like little nasally 14-year-old Shige one second, and then little demonically possessed 14-year-old Shige the next.
Quite obviously reaching to stay entertained here, yes.
What the next episode must contain to keep me watching:
At this rate, I expect no less than a passionate lecture on the splendor of genocide in the next episode.
I'm trying to stay sane by taking it as satire, but it's really just soul-crushing.
I'm thankful for a lot of things (being awake at 6 AM on a holiday not included), but none of them will be in this entry :Db
Months and months after I'd given up on it (more like just got distracted by shinier, prettier, less crappy things) I'm trying to finish Season 6 of Kinpachi-sensei. It's painful, though. Like, the awfulness of Gachibaka and Ie ga Tooi combined, times a hundred. Trillion. Everything that was wrong with the finale of Last Friends, but in every episode. Dunno, it seems like as soon as I gave up on it the three (that being Shige, Massu, and Koyama XD) started referencing it again, which made me get all nostalgic for it because I am clearly insane.
Turns out I'd already seen the best part, though. Kinpachi-sensei beating the snot out a student's druggie older brother, jumping through a burning wall to rescue his parakeets, and then being smothered in a dogpile of weepy underage boys (Massu included!) while the BUILDING IS STILL ON FIRE AND COLLAPSING AROUND THEM was really this show's shining moment. It will never not be funny. It requires giffin'.
But all the trauma in the past five episodes has been OMGEXAMZ (HaseKen keeps failing LOLOLOOOLOLOLOL), as if a drama about thirty 15-year-olds wasn't inherently whiny enough, so someone obviously needs to die and bring the real waaaahhngst. I hereby nominate Kinpachi-sensei's son. Kosaku? Whatever, that'd be great. And conveniently done! You know, cause of all the cancer. Ooh, and another benefit - angsty Kazapon! I love him. Except he's pretty much disappeared since whatshisface started getting better. His screentime is inversely proportional to how healthy that guy is. Therefore: KOSAKU, DIE ALREADY. And then Kinpachi-sensei can adopt Kazapon or something. WHY AM I NOT WRITING THIS SHOW.
Also, didn't know this season contained the oft-talked about hysterical pregnancy storyline brief mention. The whole spiel was introduced and concluded in ten minutes. "Oh, she was just lonely and stressed about exams, and those feelings manifested themselves in an imaginary baby...yeah! Yeah, let's go with that one. Meeting ADJOURNED!" (cut to the girl sobbing, clearly still in the midst of a mental breakdown). And then ew - EW - the teacher she was in love with and had been stalking, in order to cheer her up, was like "I can't promise you marriage, but after you finish high school, let's go on a date." IN FRONT OF HER MOM. WHAT.
I usually find this show kind of hilariously awful but that was so bad I was cringing. Seriously, I wonder how Kinpachi-sensei got its reputation as the show that deals with the real issues, because nothing is actually dealt with, just conveniently swept under the rug. The kids suffer until Sensei's finally found the right words to justify dismissing their issues as...basically, teen angst. He words it all poetically while strings swoon in the background, but all he's ever been saying is "your [gender identity disorder/dad's attempted suicide/relentless bullying/being left for dead by your older brother/witnessing a gruesome murder/kidnapping by a pedophile] is just part of growing up, get over it".
Which has a time and a place, yes. A crusade against the whiny little emo bitches of the world is commendable, surely, and if that was what Sensei was actually doing I'd be his biggest fan~ ♥ But it's not even so bad it's good anymore, it's so bad it's insulting.
Massu and Shige's characters still appear free of any Issues™, which is a little disappointing, because it seems like a requirement for graduation is suffering some horrific personal tragedy. Those two? Nuthin' :( But now that the smart kids have failed, the raburabu couple have split, the bullied girl came back to school, the queen bee defected to the dork kids' side and with the crazy stalker chick out of the way, that one kid's older brother in jail and Ueto Aya happily on her way to acquiring a penis, maybe we'll find out HaseKen is a total psychopath. I hope so. That'd be awesome.
Somewhat related, in the past two episodes Shige's had lines where he talks all normally and then he'll suddenly get all emo and mumble in this deep voice, and it's so funny. It's like little nasally 14-year-old Shige one second, and then little demonically possessed 14-year-old Shige the next.
Quite obviously reaching to stay entertained here, yes.
What the next episode must contain to keep me watching:
- Kosaku dying
- Kosaku dying
- Kosaku dying
- Massu doing something. Anything.
- Alien invasion!
- Kazapon, in any form.
- Kosaku dying
- Terrorism!
- Kosaku dying
- HaseKen joining a satanic cult!
- Sensei not miraculously stumbling upon one of his students when they're about to be murdered
- Kosaku dying
At this rate, I expect no less than a passionate lecture on the splendor of genocide in the next episode.
I'm trying to stay sane by taking it as satire, but it's really just soul-crushing.