vrijdag 5 februari 2016

(Bad) Ebichu

Series in one sentence:
An even more childish Hamtaro.

Series in more sentences:

A realistic representation of the life of a small pet. Sit back and relax, as a hamster is being thrown across the room by a bitch of an owner, who truly deserves the shitty boyfriend she has. Cringe at the one-frame sex scenes, yawn at the boring storylines, shake your head at the animal abuse. Ebichu.


A funny scene from this anime popped up multiple times on Facebook, which made me curious to see the rest of this show, but I won't drag out this review longer than it needs to be and just say right away I was very disappointed.

The series is short enough, but the episode plots are surprisingly childish and extremely boring for adults to sit through. But then you have the jokes and most of the scenes, that are too adult for small children to watch. It's like this anime is made for nobody. It's sad that the only entertaining thing to watch in this anime is the strange crush this one guy has on the hamster, and I suppose the dirty caller who sometimes dials the hamster's owner for no reason, but you don't see and hear nearly enough from these two characters.

The hamster is annoying as shit and always makes the exact same jokes and shouts out the exact same swear words. Her best performance is being punched against the wall by her owner. Speaking of her owner, she has nothing redeemable about her at all, but her boyfriend is even worse. Enjoy, as you sit and experience the beautiful relationship of a guy who cheats all the time and a woman who acts likes she's though, but has no self-respect and spreads her legs for the swine anyway.
I'm sure that in the minds of the creators this was supposed to be a funny running gag, but it greatly annoyed me. No one wants to see a bad relationship if there's no resolve at the end. I expected the two of them to break up in the first episode, but they stay together the entire series long, and I just don't understand why. It's not like a portrayal of an abusive relationship where you want them to break up for the good of the character you care about, you just want them to break up so you don't have to sit and watch two extremely stupid people going at it all the time. These donkeys shouldn't breed, not even if they were the only two humans left on the planet.
And this is were the entire show fails for me; because if the main characters are trash, why should the viewer care about anything that happens in this show.

If you've seen the same phonecall scene at Facebook I have, I can promise you that it's pretty much the only funny joke the entire series has to offer. But even that scene becomes less funny after you've seen all the episodes; as the hamster shouts "pussy" all the time, so good job turning that scene into a bore as well, Ebichu.