Armor Shop for Ladies & Gentlemen

To be honest, LA picked up Otona no Bouguya-san because Nao Touyama was in it...wait LA already done this bit before. Otona no Bouguya-san is an anime short focusing on a skimpy armor shop taking the mickey out of the old adage from the classic RPG's where "the less you wear the more powerful you are" and Otona no Bouguya-san takes this concept and runs with it...as far as it's 18bit movements takes itself. Otona no Bouguya-san's basic premise is of an armor shop where Kautz voiced by Mark Ishii unexpectedly gets a job at, along with a shopkeeper obsessed with selling sexy battle armour by thename of Narden voiced by Takahiro Sakurai and his assistant Lilietta voiced by Nao Touyama, armour ecchi hijinks ensues. For the most part the anime short is an ecchi comedy through and through with many ecchi incidents involving Kautz, Lilietta and Frealica voiced by Mikako Komatsu a frequent visitor of the shop. But Otona no Bouguya-san utilizes many of the classic RPG tropes to it's comedy and merges it with it's ecchi comedy, mainly getting Kautz to have constant nosebleeds as he gets charmed by Lilietta (it's super effective!), getting Liletta and Frealica into loose battle armour, Narden's backstory as how he became obsessed with sexy armour and heck...dealing with a loli demon lord at the end...wait what the hell. Otona no Bouguya-san's animation done by Imagica Lab uses the 18bit homages to classic RPG's (akin to Final Fantasy V graphic on the GBA) right down to getting the characters into sprites which Otona no Bouguya-san uses often along with visual novel stills and the classic textbox dialogue just adding to the homages to the 18bit era. Otona no Bouguya-san feels bloody cheap in terms of animation even at 3 minutes a pop every episode but those quick paced homages to the classic RPG style and jokes lightens LA's anger towards it oddly enough. In terms of voice acting, Mark Ishii and Takahiro Sakurai as Kautz and Narden did a decent job, but just like how LA got attracted into this anime short...yeah Nao Touyama and Mikako Komatsu by an extent were the MVP's this anime short....by default however. Good minimal casting with Nao Touyama at the helm. Otona no Bouguya-san pays homages and parodies the classic 18bit RPG's within a premise of a skimpy battle armour shop where the main cast essentially fluffs around with ecchi harem hijinks but as little substance this anime short has, LA can't hate it, the intentional aesthetics to the classic 18bit era can't get LA to hate this anime short. It's oddly both a nostalgic parody trip and something of a guilty pleasure anime for LA. Otona no Bouguya-san is what happens when KonoSuba and Bikini Warriors had a love child and somehow owned an armour shop with ALL the implications that it brings...good and bad.

“Armor Shop for Ladies & Gentlemen” is what happens when fanservice and a fever dream fave a baby. Slapstick comedy is a real hit or miss for me. There are gags that I find funny and then there are those that I have no idea when is the moment for laughter. I guess that’s why someone invented the canned laugh that’s used in a lot of shitty american sitcoms. The slapstick in this show… is a miss for me. I honestly didn’t find any of it funny and one episode even irritated me because it just looped the same sequence over, and over again. Not somethingI would expect in a 4 (actually 2) minute episode show. Normally I would talk about the writing, its flaws and strengths but to be honest there isn’t much to talk about. I would have to spoil the plot of every episode and I want to avoid that. The show isn’t totally episodic, the order of the episodes does matter if You want to make sense (as little as there is) of them, but there is no overarching plot or even a story here. Everything that there is here is plot ( the surface events), no one changes during those 12, short episodes. The worst part is that the premise itself is pretty awesome. A seemingly “normal” and “innocent” young man starts working in an armor shop that sells sexy (at least one I would call lewd) armor. His boss is a pervert and he has a crush on his coworker. That’s not a bad setup. But unfortunately instead of giving us something like “a weird customer of the week” be mainy see the internal conflicts of the store and its residents. It’s all so… boring. The show takes classical fantasy tropes and dials the absurd to about 9, sometimes 10 but I would say that happens only once. The idea of making something we saw a million times in fantasy anime to an extreme absurdity is a good one. But 2 minutes aren’t enough for the jokes to land. The show only gives them some time to breathe not because the writing is good but because the episode ended. It’s a terrible waste of potential because I think the premise is awesome. As it stands I can see someone watching it as a curiosity, after all it takes about 48 (24 if You skip the intro and outro) minutes to complete this show. But if You expect competent writing, or even something that will make You laugh on a regular basis, You will be disappointed.

Absolut horrible. 2 Minutes (per Episode) and then it was over... There was no story and nothing, what u could enjoy. The Sound was ok, the art too, but the characters, the story and the enjoyment was horrible. Story : 1 For me the story was absolutely horrible. What is this for a story...that s like a meme! Art : 6 Completly normal. Ok, there are those strange Game Animations in the Japanese Version but it s ok Sound : 6 The Sound was normal...The VoiceActors were fine and the music tooCharacter : 3 Pretty strange characters, i don t like them and the names (for example Kautz) are a bit strange too. The hobby s they have are strange too!Characters Overall : STRANGE!!!! Enjoyment : 1 You can t enjoy this with this 2 minutes story per episode, these horrible characters etc... I don t know how u could like this Anime Overall : 3,4 I think I have nothing more to say IT S MY MEANING!!!I HAVEN T WATCHED THAT MUCH ANIME SO IM NEW!!! And sry for my grammar and vocabulary...