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Popotan – Enigma (Volume Two/Animé TV)

 

Picture: B-     Sound: B-     Extras: D     Episodes: C

 

 

Though meant for ages 16 and up, the drawn nudity once again in the Animé TV series Popotan is more so than we have seen in the dozens of Animé titles we have covered to date.  With that said, it is not as outrageous or offensive as something exploitive like Cosplay Complex (reviewed elsewhere on this site), but some may think 16 is possibly not old enough in some situations considering the mix of nudity and animation is still somewhat taboo in American society.

 

The show is not anywhere as obsessed with nude body images, but is shockingly casual about it.  Enigma features the next four episodes of the series, which includes storylines of a young boy who has broken into a house of girls because he thinks it is haunted.  The girls laugh, but he may be right.  Before you know it, more mysterious persons surface, as do magic occurrences and getting a doll repaired turns out to be a task like nothing anyone expects.  Unfortunately, the narrative does not match the promise of those situations, as the humor is too often as overdone as the nudity, but it is different enough to at least gain a cult following of some sort.  What is worse, one of the young boys is suddenly a teenager, so when did all this narrative get lost?

 

The anamorphically enhanced 1.78 X1 image is better than what we usually see in such Animé TV production, both because of the good color fidelity and the near-abandonment of images made purposely softer than usual.  That is an annoying cliché of the genre and it’s about time another show broke it.  The Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo has just enough surround information to consider using Pro Logic surround in home theater playback, making this one of the best performing combination from Geneon DVD to date.  The lame extras are once again the opening without text credits and a full color art gallery, plus a small paper foldout in the DVD case.  Popotan is nothing great except in its technical playback, but there is obviously an audience for something sexual like this, just in its casual attitude.  We will not review this show again until it gets better, if that.

 

 

-   Nicholas Sheffo


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