Tawawa on Monday 2

Anime tiddies. Mommy Milkers. Sweater Cows. Bazongas. Oppai. Booba. Hummina hummina hummina awoooga. Train whistle noises. All of these are things you can say about Tawawa. I remember watching season 1 back when it came out, and was pleasantly surprised that it got more. I love when these very short anime series manage to have continuity between episodes and kind of tell a cohesive story. While it's not a series heavy with a lot of plot, it is heavy with a lot of... "plot", if you know what I'm saying. The plot is still pretty good, and is surprisingly wholesome considering the J-cup package it's being deliveredin. Personally my favorite ship is the younger sister with the older friend from school. I give it a 7/10

As the sequel to the Getsuyoubi no Tawawa ends we're give something new to the table, so................ Story: Pros: Storywise it was still the same as the first sequel, but in here, it was different, cu'z unlike the first sequel, where the girls presented were a variation of Ai-chan. Here, the variation were divided with Kohai-Chan, Maegami-San, and Cheerleader-san, each has here arc , but most of the good ones were with Maegami. Cons: Kohai has the worse arc and Ai-chan's arc was simply given an open ending where her arc..... Verdict: 7 Over 10.Art: Pros: The usual big boobs and swimsuit fanservices. Cons: No fanservices like panty shot and nipple shots. Verdict: 5 Over 10. Sound: Pros: Nothing to say, since it was still your usual seiyu's who did them characters voices. Cons: I don't give a fuck as who did the voices of new characters. Verdict: 5 Over 10. Character: Pros: As I've, said , Ai-Chan's variation, were spilt with Kouhai-Chan Maegami, and Cheerleader-san, even if new characters were added on their personality level nothing has change...... Cons: Even with the addition of a variation of Oniisan, with sensei, sempai, and Cheerleader's boyfriend, their character were still the same. Verdict: 5 Over 10. Enjoyment: Pros: Good as it is, to be able to see one of the female character's have a clean ending as she gets married to her sensei...but. Cons: I kinda hate it that Koihai's romance with her sempai wasn't that good in the finale. Verdict: 7 Over 10. Overall: Verdict: 7 Over 10. TBH, studio Yokohama Animation Lab, may have done something good with an ONA like this, but that's as good as it will get, cu'z a 3rd season will not be good if they're not will to give Ai-Chan's arc an good ending with Oniisan.

The second season like the first has the focus on Ai-chan (student on the train), Kouhaichan (office worker), but we get to see others like Meagami-chan (who we see a good amount with her sensei, episode 2 surprised me and throughout to episode 12 they really do a fair amount with them) along with Cheer-chan (a cheerleader/model). The manga/twitter posts were always about 'here is something each monday for the working class, something to cheer them up even when the days are long and hard and repetitive' and I think that's fair. That and like others that have read manga with a focus on Tawawa thisanime S1 & 2 are no different. It may be a fanservice show at first glance but it also has that fair share of slice of life moments and enough content even for short form episodes it cuts out the nonsense and balances the two well. I have since seen the special and it was fine, not S1 OVAs great (nothing will be the watching Tawawa on Monday on DVD inside the show itself) but good enough for a pretty predictable OVA type of episode (spoilers: beach episode from what I remember). It's a show to just relax and watch some slice of life and ecchi fan service. The art style change while noticeable didn't ruin the show. The fan service moments are brief but when dealing with 6 minute episodes (including ED, no OP) they only appear for certain scenes or a few seconds that or part of the dialogue sometimes. The moments between each of the two characters (the girls and the men they have conversations with or Ai-chan and her friend) all have enjoyable moments of dialogue. Nothing ground breaking but can be a little funny or just natural to the scenarios they are in. It's still anime silly but if your fine with that by all means. Like with many fan service shows you don't take the fan service seriously and you do or don't take all slice of life moment seriously. It isn't the most groundbreaking thing ever but for a slice of life fan service show Meagami-chan's scenes were surprising and unexpected. I haven't read much of the manga as of this review but even as a mostly anime watcher I was surprised. This is a show with 6 minute episodes (including ED but no OP) and while sure the scenes aren't anything mindblowing some pacing like in episode 2 is impressive, while that shouldn't matter and in a longer length show or many episodes later events happening for 1 couple. For a single episode to have a variety of scenes sum up events when most anime take longer I think is amazing. Short shows aren't worth ignoring fan service or otherwise when people do in seasonal roundups. Otherwise Maegami and her partner do progress throughout the scenes they are in. The others don't so don't expect a lot. It isn't shown as a backstory but in many cases could be but does it well to show all we really need to know with the time span given. The girls do talk in some episodes whether neighbours or shopping and it's nice to see the characters not just in the same situations/locations all the time and with the male characters they talk to all the time and it being too formulaic. A fine watch. Just something to chill and watch. Haven't seen the special currently (have now) but if as good as my favourite scene of the season 1 specials/episode 14 I'm curious. Nothing beats the Tawawa on DVD scene for me.

Season 1 felt like just a few glimpses and tid-bits of a bigger story and tit-bits. The overall mood was like some light, potentially forever-ongoing (but cut way short because of episode count limits) and leading-nowhere slice-of-life 4-koma. With the same episode number and length as season 1, I expected season 2 to have the same drawback of feeling too short and incomplete. I was pleasantly surprised. This time it follows 4 couples instead of just 2, a huge improvement. The feeling of completeness comes mainly from Maegami-chan's arc because it actually leads somewhere, but the other arcs also get to share it because of allthe crossovers that are included this time around. This time it is definitely a finished product. If you are a fan of the serialized manga you will find many skipped details, but also much content that goes beyond it. For example the whole of Maegami-chan's arc from the manga is included in a single episode, skipping over her development, like the reason she became student council president and rushing over her whole struggle to get the teacher. But then it goes on in the other episodes and shows us new things. The fourth couple - a cheerleader/gravure idol and her childhood friend are completely missing in the serialized manga so are a welcome addition as well. I assume all these extra details are from the original twitter posts. I've not read them, nor even know if they are available in English anywhere at all. I feel like the amount of focus on boobs has increased this time around, and the illusion of innocence and purity that the manga or first season somehow maintained despite the H-I-J-K-cups has been discarded. Or was I the only one deluding myself that it had any purity at all? Welp, sorry, my bad then. I guess I should stop denying that ep. 2 of season 1 specials actually happened and face the music. The original twitter drawings were nothing but ecchi boobie-girls after all, the story came second, so I should've seen all this coming. I wonder if they have enough material for another season... I think I'd like it, even with a return to the format of season 1 - less overall story, more instant fun focus, but importantly with more episodes which the short episode duration should allow them to have.