Sunday, July 22, 2018

First Impressions: Asobi Asobase Ep 1

 
Two girls, the energetic Hanako and the self-proclaimed foreign exchange student, Olivia, are playing a game in a classroom that is empty except for the two of them and one other classmate. This classmate, Kasumi, gets irritated by their noise but after taking practical considerations decides to join in. It turns out that Kasumi has been doing badly in English and wants to Olivia to teach her the language. Olivia, however, has been only pretending to be bad at Japanese -- because although her parents are both foreigners, she was born and raised in Japan and knows little English. But she keeps up the pretense as she's enjoying fooling Hanako too much and gets reluctantly drawn into really intense games with Kasumi. Eventually the three of them form a club for their past-time.


FIRST IMPRESSIONS:
I don't really know how to recap this series, so I don't think I'm gonna blog about it. But I enjoyed the first episode. I appreciate slapstick humor and the super-deformed style, as you can see. And the girls have enjoyable personalities. It's not as funny as Chio-chan, which I actually want to blog about, but it is still fun and light and an easy watch.

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