[Fish Sandwich]

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Originally Posted by AkibaSilver

Anyone feel different and want to let me know what I'm missing?

Honestly, Genms And The Overly Long Subtitle was a really nice treat in my book, and convinced me I'm totally down for one or two of these on occasion. There's a very particular vibe to this series that I like -- and I'm not sure how well I can really describe it -- but it's something about the idea of the roles it slots Gai and Kuroto into. Those are both characters I found could become a bit grating within their own shows, and yet, for some reason, I love them in these. More than any particular joke, there's just this humor inherent in having a hero who was a complete scumbag until he got a robot dog, and a villain who's been given way too many layers to ever function as a straight antagonist ever again. Neither of them makes that much sense in the role they're given, and that's *hilarious* to me.

Genms is like this borderline avant-garde experiment in the way it plays with the idea of how the audience is meant to root for characters in a typical story (it knows people like Kuroto more, names itself after him, and still makes Gai the "protagonist" anyway, which says a lot), and this one in particular played up that actual Genm VS Thouser angle that got sidetracked for the Cronus stuff last time.

So yeah, I don't know. I guess if I'm saying it's good, that might be a warning sign more than anything, but I feel like Yuuya Takahashi is doing something pretty interesting with these things despite them not being deep in any way, and this time we did indeed get a cool new suit or two out of the deal, so I'm pretty satisfied.