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OP: 「DOLPHIN☆JET」 by 彩音 (Ayane)
Watch the OP! Mirror 1, Mirror 2
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Ah, summer. Beach, mizugi, boobs – the “natsu triumvirate.” Umisho is about a guy who can’t swim, and yet helps out with the swim club. Why? Because every anime chick has a rockin’ body. Can’t fault the guy for being a loser – not his fault he’s the male lead, but mad props for choosing a good place to live it out.
Problem is, I’ve never had much of a thing for girls in swimsuits. Don’t get me wrong, I love it as much as the next guy, but it’s my belief that swimsuits lack the appeal of underwear, even though they both might be showing the same amount of skin. Apparently, the anime gods were listening. The main girl’s swimsuit of choice? Her birthday suit. Or a men’s dress shirt with nothing underneath. Now we’re talkin!
Ninagawa Amuro, the wide-eyed green-haired girl with FTW written all over her, shows up in some One Piece-lookin house raft and a huge freakin smile on her face. Yep, she’s that kind of super genki girl that everyone gravitates to, except this one is scantily clad and voiced by a complete newcomer seiyuu, so she’s got that raw, unscripted type of voice that just oozes a feeling of freshly-cut grass and freshly-squeezed orange juice. And that feeling you get when you down half a bottle of ice-cold Gatorade on a hot and humid day. Ahhhh.
Her hair is a real point of interest, actually. Green-haired girls have traditionally been the superfun genki girls (Yotsuba, Tsuruya, Asa-senpai), and really not to an annoying extent. More like, she’s the kind of girl that makes you look forward to going to school with, because you never know what kind of awesomeness she’s gonna pull that day. What stunt is Yotsuba gonna bust out? What kind of new wordplay is Tsuruya going to treat us to nyoro? And let’s not forget that Asa-senpai pulled the greatest upset in harem anime history by claiming the male lead for herself as the FOURTH place girl. When has this ever happened? Not even the third girl has ever won it all. Love it, love it, love it.
For those smart asses who point out that Yukino is a rather stupid character in Nagasarete, I counter with this – her mom is FTW!!
Oh wait, I’m supposed to be summarizing. You know what, this episode is all about introductions, so let’s just get it out of the way quick:
Speaking of classic matchups, did any of you watch the hot dog eating contest on ESPN today? 6-time winner Takeru Kobayashi was beaten by American Joey Chestnut by 3 hot dogs. Last year, Kobayashi set the world record of 53.75 hot dogs in 12 minutes, which was trumped by Chestnut’s amazing 59.5 dogs at a qualifying round this year. In the main event today, the two were practically neck and neck for the final 5 minutes – in the end, Chestnut scarfed down 66 (!!!!) hot dogs to beat Kobayashi’s 63 in one of the most amazing matchups in sports history. Epic sight to behold.
Oh wait, back to the summary.
ED Sequence
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ED: 「Splash BLUE ~太陽とレモネード」 (Splash BLUE ~Taiyou to Lemonade) by 村田あゆみ (Murata Ayumi)
Watch the ED!: Mirror 1, Mirror 2
Ok, back to rambling. For those people who only read these posts for the thoughts, read up, cuz all the thoughts are there. The only real summary bits are the ones in bullet points. Anyways, considering the crappiness of every new show so far (exception goes to School Days, there’s actually some major potential in that one), Umisho is a breath of fresh air with its crisp color palette, nice animation, and one awesome green-haired chick.
Here’s another great thing about it – it makes my mind wander, kinda like what happened in this post. Normally that means the episode is a complete bore, but in this case, my mind wandered to happy places. Made me remember nice memories, made me think of nice people, and overall put me in a good mood. I love these kinds of shows – I walk away satisfied, energized, and looking forward to the next episode.
Oh, and the boobs. The animators took special care in that department. Plenty of subtle jiggles, every curve and wet reflective surface is embellished to bring out the full 3 dimensions.
My only complaint is the seeming null-role that the male lead plays. In terms of this episode, it would have been pretty much exactly the same had he been taken out altogether… that said, he does have some childhood trauma from getting pulled underwater by some green-haired mermaid (omg foreshadowing!) and sorta kinda serves as the glue to bring the various characters together (but not really). Whatever, nothing new.
If the next episode can keep up this level of enjoyment, I’ll be continuing with this series.
-jaalin
Out of everything I watched yesterday, Umisho’s OP remains the one song that I liked and got stuck in my head. The animation was pretty clean too (refreshing even), so I was pretty happy with production quality. I’m interested to see how they’ll keep up all the fanservice and if the show takes any type of direction with the story.
looks great
this first episode has more boob scene than any other first episode show that is not a hentai.
luv it must be a good comedy/fanservice anime again
Holy crap!
You weren’t kidding when this show’s about breasts,swimsuits, and more breasts!!!
I do like the art style though. I don’t know why, but I think it’s similar to Gurren Laggen artwork.
Im not a fan of blatant ecchi anime (although i don’t mind Gainax’s ecchi offerings), but going to watch this anime just for the green hair chick. She looks like a fun character to watch.
i totally left out the most awesome green haired chick of all… C.C.! !!! ! ! ! !
can’t believe i forgot that one
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yea, but how is she “super genki”?
she makes me super genki
even better
@jaalin: “can’t believe i forgot that one”
Well, in your defense, the topic at that time was “superfun genki girls,” and while I’m sure C.C. is “superfun” under the right circumstances (wink wink, nudge nudge, say no more), she’s about as genki as Yuki.
And speaking of the animation, while the rest isn’t similar, greengirl’s face reminded me a lot of Koyuki from Keroro Gunso. Must be the :3…
Oh, and who voices the ahoge loli? She sounds very familiar…
I….LOVE….fanservice!
That green-haired girl had an almost similar hairstyle as Asa from Shuffle!
the ahoge loli is ai shimizu, aka onodera karen (onegai twins), minawa-chan (mahoromatic), the pink haired bimbo from Gift, and most recently Koyori (sola).
fanservice ftw
Did somebody say fanservice and breasts? I’m so watching this series now.
I never thought sharks could be such perverts XD
Actually the first thing that came to my mind as far as styling goes was Inu Neko Jump…have no idea why though…
Although this seemed like a typical fanservice show, the art direction has a very interesting stlye to it…going to have to check it out.
Fanservice time!!!!! LOL….I’m so watching this :p
Good Lord, we are outside the realm of subtlety in a big way with this one. Now, the big challenge. Where do we find places with women swimming with nothing but a men’s dress shirt in the real world. The beauty of harem animes. Every single female character is stacked, and can give directions with their boobs. Ahhh, some things never change.
Well…normally i don’t just check things out for the fanservice, but the girl looks pretty entertaining so…i guess i’ll give this one a swing. Thanks for the review.
Wow looks good and pervery. cant believe its a harem ^__^ ! art seems just like Inu Neko Jump sorta O_O ! cant wait for it to be sybbed 😀
wooooo interested
I’m curious to watch this show now. =3
lets not even fool ourselves with all that “new direction” ,”different type”, cuz its time to watch animated, BOOTY BOOTY BOOTY! titty TITTY TITTY, KYAAAAAA_AAAANNNNNNN!!!!!!!! type of stuff
@jaalin:
Well, I didn’t recognize Ai Shimizu from any of those shows (never having seen any of them), but a quick trip to ANN shows me that she voices Road Kamelot in D.Gray-man, and also voiced Suzuka (aka the “normal” friend not voiced by Rie Kugimiya) from Nanoha and Nanoha A’s.
Looks really perverted.. ive basically given up on ecchi shows coz the content is usually all the same. Maybe ill start watching them again if they ever really put a conclusion to Ranma ½
No nudity = no watchy.
For anyone interested TEA Scans picked up the manga:
http://tea.bakemono.info/
This anime seems to be a great fun, but i must remind that The Most Awesome Green-haired Chick still is Lamu, Lum The Invader from Urusei Yatsura.With all due respect to other nominations, which are all excellent, a longer perspective must be counted, say 30 years?
If you liked this episode, you should check out some of the manga that the mangaka did prior to this one: Inu Neko Jump with it’s catch phrase “I masturbated” and very ecchi Otogi no Machi no Rena with the sex hamsters (and no they don’t have sex with the hamster like demons). I have always loved Hattori Mitsuru’s girl character designs and the animation of this anime adaption catches much of the cuteness of them. I will eagarly be waiting for each episode of this.
This show= good fun.
No brains, though, just fun.
Most importantly, B( . )( . )bs.
Sigh…
I should’ve known this was Hattori Mitsuru…wonder it a group will pick it up to sub.
lol wut? I’m so watching this. This anime looks damn hawt.
Well its like Tonagura I think the art style and fanservice at least kinda looks the same as Tonagura but it could be just my imagination:) But nice aniem anyways ^ ^
Its a bright anime, one of the bests creating now. Its not boring, realy is hi quality.
its very good series i got all 13 episodes
if u guys want them
i have upload them on Megaupload
email me if u want the links
my email is vietquoc.hochau@hotmail.com
you can watch the entire first season on http://www.broadcaster.com
just type in: umisho – (0 and a number here unless it’s higher than 9 like 10 or sumtin)(no parenthesis)
ps… viet-quoc…
if you bought the series then it’s just a waste of money…
just do what I said…
its really easy
one more thing…
does anyone know about a season 2 or further?
jus started watching.
finished in one day
want more XD
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jus had to do that =3