Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks?

I loved this anime just as much as I hate my mother, so I'm giving it a full 10/10. No, I'm not out of my mind - the real madness is that this masterpiece, this absolute unit, this groundbreaking work of art, is rated only 5.5/10. Mommy issues, perhaps? Mamako is adorable - she's the M.I.L.F. everyone needs but that we don't deserve; in particular, the M.I.L.F. the MC doesn't deserve. He will never see the truth, unfortunately. She's hot, she's fun, she's genuine, she's hot, she's resourceful, she's kind, she's hot, she's a bit naive and air-headed at times, I will admit this much, butthat only adds to her charm. Also, she's hot. A M.I.L.F. that can easily pass as a teenager, with all that overflowing Ara-Ara energy and such an explosive body. Exactly HOW can you give this anime anything but full marks? The only criticism I can give on this state-of-the-art bona fide masterwork is that, while we get a glimpse of Wise's nipples, we aren't blessed with the full sight of Mama's grace. That is, in my opinion, unforgivable. Not enough to lower the score, but still... it left me with a vague sense of disappointment. Ah, yeah, the other characters. I guess they exist, but I don't care enough about them to include them in my review. 999/10 (for Mamako.) Plot: 999/10 (because Mamako is in it.) Animation: 999/10 (because they animate Mamako.) Sound: 999/10 (because of Mamako's VA.) Overall enjoyment: 999/10. I'd recommend this gem to anyone at any time. It will cure your depression and give you a reason to live. 10/10 would get Isekai'd with Mamako. I don't think this anime will get a second season: beauty and perfection are always rejected by the ignorant masses. That is why I am now motivated to become a millionaire, learn Japanese, and personally fund a season 2. Look forward to it. It might take years, decades perhaps, but I will get there.

Millions of years of evolution have lead us to this point. We as a species have learnt to read, write, love, hate, laugh and cry for this very moment. Years upon years of boring, trite Isekai shows have not been for naught. This is the single most monolithic event of our minuscule existence on this orbiting rock. People often like to point fingers at Sword Art Online as the sole reason that the Isekai genre has become an absolute cesspool. While SAO has contributed greatly, the major reason it's become as bad as it has is largely in result of the massive amount of money andattention it was able to pull. Money is more often than not the death of creativity, look at the Star Wars franchise. Tsuujou Kougeki ga Zentai Kougeki de Ni-kai Kougeki no Okaasan wa Suki Desu ka? Is an absolute mouthful to read but more than that, it's stupid, and it's acutely aware that it is. Which is more than I can say about the other Isekai shows that ran this season. There's also an actual goal, although vague it's a goal nonetheless, bond with your mother in a video game. I feel I must discuss the points that did enjoy. The animation and art actually impressed me, the style lends itself well to the video game theme.. alright I could only manage one positive. Look, i'm aware that this show might not be for me and hell, i'm not even the target demographic. Different strokes for different folks. And a stroke is exactly what this show feels like to sit through. Let there be no illusions, this show is a fetishist's wet dream masquerading as an anime. Going into the show I was fully expecting it to be bad, hilariously bad. I was not fully prepared for how awful this show turned out to be. Let's say that everything after the first episode was incognito mode. Most Isekai shows rely on the viewer to self insert. Self inserting into a show where the premise is to adventure with your mother is extremely strange. The protagonist is always deflated by the immense amount of fan service his mil-.. mother is put through and that same unenthusiam bleeds into the viewer. It's disturbing at best. Even more disturbing than that is the clear attempt to garner the interest of those who find incest enticing by having beams from the sun censor what little enjoyment they can attain from this show. It's clear that the creators just want you to buy the bluray boxed sets with the censorship removed so they can feast their eyes upon the uninteresting nudity. It always loops back to money. The sexualization of the mother is a bit strange but moving on the groping and suggestive dialogue got really increasingly more and more uncomfortable. Judging just off the artwork and genres on MAL, I was just expecting a lighthearted romp into a mediocre parody show. A wink and a nudge here and there, nothing to get too worked up over. Like most things, I was wrong. The shameless and almost comedic lengths the show would take just to have an uninspired attempt at titillation was enough to give me a headache. It set off red flags immediately, but like an abusive partner I kept coming back. Speaking of abuse, oh boy! In addition to the off-putting incest the show displays, it also includes verbal, sexual and emotional abuse! Exactly what i'd want to see in my show about being sucked into a video game world. Medhi who is a character introduced in the later half of the show is constantly berated and mocked by her mother. At a point she's even stripped naked and choked against a tree. It's a superficial attempt to stir drama and it was completely unnecessary, leaving a rancid taste in the mouth of the viewer. I say superficial because the show does nothing to justify these story elements or provide a solution in a meaningful or satisfying way. Problems are solved by the typical "I was in a dark place" rhetoric a Youtuber would use in an apology video. It's sickening. Speaking from my own experience the show made me question the very meaning of life. Where am I? Who am I? Why am I watching this tripe? Why do I even exist at all. I had an existential crisis over why I even decided to torture myself with 12 episodes of this filth. It was so I could warn readers like yourself to stay very far away. I've successfully found my life's purpose. To close, i'd like to end with a philosophical quote: "Ma-kun, your mommy is soaking wet!" - Mamako Oosuki

Well, I’ll be damned. The isekai genre finally did it! They made a show about MILF in a fantasy adventure in 2019! With such a long ridiculous title, you should take a breath and not take this anime seriously. Just when you thought the world would be ok, this absurd thing called Okaasan Online became a reality. It’s easy to actually enjoy this anime when you turn your brains off or at least watch it without an agenda. After seeing the trailers and the promotional material, it’s obvious the anime is more of a parody of itself. I’m not going to lie though, watching Ookasan Onlineis guilty pleasure like eating junk food when you’re on a diet. The show is saturated with absurd ideas with the central focus about an overly loving mom. Main protagonist Masato Oosuki is bombarded with affections by her mother, Mamako. The two gets transported into a fantasy world as their adventures begin. You’re probably going to question if this anime has incest elements. It’s controversial enough that Mamako is portrayed as MILF with Masato as her son. Their relationship challenges the borderlines of a son-mother connection. At its very baseline, it’s shown that Mamako genuinely loves Masato like a mother would. The real question is how much she shows that love. The first few episodes dedicates to bringing out both characters’ personalities as much as possible. Mamako is portrayed as a kind woman who sometimes can behave like a child yet also has a mature side of herself. As a protective parent, she gets angered easily when her son is threatened and is fiercely devoted to her motherly duties. In essence, you can picture Mamako as the ideal standard of a mother. Masato is portrayed more of as a typical teenager and as you can imagine, he gets embarrassed by her mother’s over the top antics. The first few episodes shows their character chemistry that sometimes will jump way over itself with its humor. For instance, it seems Mamako can’t seem to stand straight for 5 minutes if she isn’t with her son. Poor Masato. He can’t really ever be free even in a world that’s not real. But as you can imagine, Okaasan Online overall has more of a satirical parody tone. It takes the isekai genre and transforms it into a story with some incest context and less so about a hero saving the world from evil. The story structure seems to focus on adventures at times but overall revolves around Mamako and Masato’s relationship. The amount of incest subtext is evident in some later episodes especially with bath scenes and other innendos. Plus, you can’t deny the look on Masato’s face when he shows attraction towards Mamako. Fortunately, the anime doesn’t pursue any sort of serious drama between the pair and instead plays it out like a parody. Yet, you have to wonder if there’s any actual romance at all in this anime. The answer is sort of but not quite. Sure, we have Masato falling heels for the feminine Medhi but again, their relationship plays out more like a lighthearted comedy. Even after Medhi shows her “darker side”, it’s hard to take her character seriously at all. Like I said before, you should watch this anime with your brains turned off and let the anime speaks for itself. It’s not trying to hide anything with the amount of running gag or the obvious suggestive tones. Outside of the main leads, it’s hard to find appeal about the other supporting cast. Characters such as Shirase, Porta, or Wise just doesn’t carry the same amount of presence as Mamako. If you’ve ever played an MMORPG before, it’s like they are the supporting party while Mamako and Masato are the co-leaders. Occasionally, their dialogues can bring out a few laughs but it’s still overshadowed by the overpowered Mamako. Speaking of dialogues, it’s also hard to deny the show is consciously self-aware. Phrases such as “we are family, so it’s normal” is one of the most overused ways to showcase the son-mother relationship. There’s also dialogues about housewife jokes and character expressions showing how a typical mom would behave. If you’re not a fan of this style of humor, you’re not going to find much joy in Okaasan Online. I’m starting to wonder if J.C. Staff is on some sort of mission to prove how productive they are in the anime industry this year. At the time of this writing, they had four ongoing projects including this show all airing the same season. Okaasan Online didn’t fall victim to production issues but it still has an average animation quality. Let’s face it, the characters has some of the most generic looks known to humankind. The one that stand above the rest is Mamako who is decorated with MILF qualities. Because she is an older woman compared to most of the cast, it’s no surprise she has a more mature body. In some episodes, the anime even decides to put her into suggestive outfits to bring the most of her appeal. In other cases, the anime relies on fan service with bath scenes. Unfortunately, the TV version contains censored lights so help us God, let the BD/DVD versions remove that nonsense. Character expressions is mostly showcased with humor with the amount of pout scenes and cartoony reactions. Does it make you laugh? That’s for you to decide but the show clearly wants you to watch this with your brains turned off. Watching Okaasan Online wasn’t entirely a dreadful experience. Trust me, there’s garbage like Isekai Cheat Magician out there which is about as tasteless as isekai can be. On the other hand, this is one of those series that’s going to appeal a certain audience. It’s actually one of the first momcom (as Yen Press describes it) anime adaptations I remember in recent years so that's something new, I guess?

Finally an anime that adheres to my taste -Kakyoin 20XX *spoilers warning for those who are weak. Okaasan online (OO) is a rather odd but inevitable anime to come out recently. Riding the wacky train of high-concept isekai premises, with this one being “what if the main character went to another world, but with his mom”. Okasan is able to land firmly in between the too ridiculous to take seriously, but not too ridiculous that you can’t make a small adaptation out of it. While it’s obvious that this entire work was made just for cheap thrills so that anybody can watch it ironically, and for othersto ogle at waifu bait until the doujinshis come along. The show, intentionally or not, ends up showcasing some interesting themes that ended up with me wanting to write this review about it. In the beginning OO is presented as a show that really doesn’t care about it’s own story. It takes a lot of tropes from recent isekai anime, and includes a mom with them. It’s mainly used for the sake of humor, but that’s really the beginning and end of the joke. Haha, isn’t it funny that the mom is journeying with the main protagonist. Haha isn’t it funny that the mom is more overpowered than the child, ha ha ha. The show also certainly doesn’t care about having a narrative drive, especially in the beginning of the story. It doesn’t care about reason or purpose, only results which are getting to why this show exists in the first place, anything else doesn’t matter. Why is the government able to send people into a video game? Doesn’t matter. Why is a video game used as a parent child bonding program? Doesn’t matter. What’s the end game in order to complete the program? Obviously for parent and child to be closer. How is this gauged? DOES NOT MATTER. The first few episodes of OO are rather aimless. Treading the same waters of other shows of its nature by doing similar riff,gags, and references to JRPGs and videogames in general. The show also has a handful of mom puns, or at least it has many things in this world that has some variation of the word mom jammed into it. The mother’s name is “mama”ka, the protagonist's name is masato which is shortened to Ma-kun, the currency of the world is called mam which sounds close to mom, and pretty much every city and town has the word placed into it, etc etc. They do lessen as the show continues on or at least aren’t that annoying. After those few episodes the show tries to build some sort of narrative, and it does so by using its themes as a sort of glue so it can have some cohesion. Since during their early aimless travels, the protagonist and his mother picked up other young players to join their adventure. Since the game is mainly about parent and child bonding it would seem odd that the other players they recruited aren’t without their parents which becomes the whole point. With Wise, one of the players they picked up along the way, becoming the catalyst of what this show is all about. The first main “story line” deals with the party dealing with wise's mother who is causing trouble in the game. It’s during this story line that it’s revealed that wise’s mother had been very neglectful of her, and despite the game being an attempt to reconcile, the mom ends up abandoning her. It becomes obvious that the shows main themes are about parenthood, motherhood, and interpersonal relationships. The entire parent-child bonding program becomes more than just a ploy to show case hot milfs, but to also showcase themes that while may be obvious, they at least make the show more interesting from other derivative isekais. With the next storyline being the opposite of the first, this time having an overbearing parent helicopter over her child in some vicarious fashion. And the final storyline not really having an antagonistic parent, but more so rebellious children who are a mirror to the main protagonist. Of course interesting themes can only go so far because the writing still sucks. The characters are pretty much dragged from place to place by one of the admins, Shirase, in order to solve these problems and for the storylines to happen. Two of the main storylines resolving with a Mom v. Mom battle via might makes right, with might being the plot bending over backwards for Mamako to always be the winner. Not to mention how Mamako is pretty much the second coming of jesus christ who can do no wrong and becomes way to preachy about being a mom. The only criticism towards her comes from her own son, and even then it really doesn’t matter anyway. Then there’s Wise and Medhi the two supporting characters whose storylines with their mothers we go through, as they both have interesting characterization by their personalities being a result of how their mothers treated them. However those personalities end up being the only thing about them and also just become jokes. Which is very much the case of Medhi who has a kind personality the show in front of others, and also a malicious personality that’s filled with contempt towards others, especially towards her mother. It portrays how screwed up she has become from how her mother had treated her, but in the end it’s later portrayed like some dumb sadistic quirk that makes her say one-liners every once in a while. Not to mention that their mothers, who get shafted after their story lines are over, were being manipulated the whole time they were in the game. They were still presented as no-good parents before the game, but it was that manipulation that made them 10x worse. So it’s hard to tell whether a character like Medhi got her personality before or during the start of the game. Sure the show is a comedy and all of this shouldn’t be taken too seriously, but that serious stuff is the only thing the show has going for it since the comedy is mostly stale. So it is a shame that such interesting themes are stuck in such a “plot”, with such ideas being ripe for examination and exploration, and the current setting being a perfect place to facilitate it. There are many possible types of combinations between the parent and child relationship such as an adoptive child, siblings of any degree, or even a NEET child just to name a few. Even the inclusion of a father character, which this anime is lacking despite being a PARENT and child program, would be enough to double or triple the number of possibilities. There’s also the chance of exploring themes about gender roles, sex, and sexuality. Given that the story takes place in a video game it shouldn’t be too far off for a character to change their sex or appearance with a few switches and dials. Imagine for example a story line that has an old fashioned strict parent who joins the game with their child, but the child “Accidentally” became the opposite sex. However the matter of fact would be that the child did it deliberately because they could: 1.gauge how their parent would feel 2. see if the parent can accept them at that moment and 3. slowly indoctrinate them into the liberal gay agenda. Speaking of gays, what if the main character was gay. The anime does show that Mamako is fine with Masato being in a relationship as they do a sort of potential bride interview as a way to recruit party members. While it’s obvious that it’s done as a joke it would be interesting to see what would happen with their relationship if he was gay. Would Mamako be accepting of him? Well of course she would, she’s basically Jesus II . But would a mother like her but not as benevolent be as accepting? Who knows but it would be interesting. But that’s enough wallowing of what could have been. Even if the show did these things, given the writing of this show, I doubt it would be even be good. As for the production value of the show, it’s all right. The only thing worth of note is the character designs, more specifically their eyes. Their designs were done by an artist named Pochi who’s known for a manga that also focuses on the bonds of an older and younger family members. What makes the characters in this anime distinct is that the characters have white pupils. While having characters with white pupils isn’t anything new, it’s done in wholesale here. While i guess it is cute on the other hand the more you look at it the more uncanny it gets. As you stare at Mamako, her gaze pierces yours as she looks deep inside your soul. And as you try to do the same, you are only met with an endless white void. The abyss stares at you but you aren't able to stare back. Averting your eyes is the only option and in doing so your are met with her chest. Beautiful maternal breasts that can comfort and soften even the most hardened of people. So yeah, it's nice shit I guess. As I was writing this review I think I finally understood why I was so interested in the themes in this show and why i bothered continuing on. It mainly boils down to there rarely ever being even a modest amount of anime about parent-child relationships. One does pop up every once in a while, but even those aren't really that focused on parenthood as much as OO is, albeit OO is very preachy about it. I guess it goes to show that writing isn’t the only way to make a show interesting, just having themes and a parent-child relationship that sometime teeters into incest can work just as well. Anyway the scoring is a bit skewed because i had to put a 10 on characters so i don't hurt Mamako's feelings