What They Say:
One day, Mukoujima Takurou, a boy in high school who loves fishing, catches a pig tailed mermaid called Muromi-san who speaks in the Hakata dialect. She comes to visit Takurou often, along with her fellow mermaids Sumida-san, Fuji-san, Levia-san, Hii-chan, and even some other fantastical creatures such as Yeti and Harpy!
The Review:
Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers)
I have to admit, even though he’s not in every episode, Takkun is one of my favorite characters of the season since he doesn’t always take what’s thrown at him. Case in point is the opening gag here where he hooks Muromi’s top from her, with her being a willing and active participant in it happening, and doesn’t return it, instead telling her to come and get it if she wants. That’s amusing enough since it calls her bluff, but he goes further and actually hooks her in the mouth with his fishing rod, which gets her to expose herself in a few different ways. He’s not entirely afraid of her and in a lot of ways is just kind of tired of her and her antics, along with a few of the others.
The relationship the two have is amusing overall, and Takkun gets rather intrigued by her for the first time when he sees that her compact is essentially a Bag of Holding in which you can put anything in there and it’ll hold it. That clues us in a bit more to how things work within her world and the super science of it which is just comical. This leads to a further exploration of the supe science when we see the “thing” that’s now making all of the gear for the small amount of people that are a part of her world and it has a great bit of comical evil about him. The show spends most of its time there, which gets weirdly disturbing, but it also has some fun by going back to play with Harpy for a little bit as they want to put a transmitter on her to keep track of her. But that also brings them back to where they started in a way and in dealing with Wiseman and his new form, it just gets even more weirdly disturbing.
In Summary:
Muromi-san works up plenty of humor here and plays a few different angles, largely owed to dealing with Wiseman and introducing us more to how the technology of their world comes into being. Wiseman is a bit creepy in a number of ways of course and he gets abused easily, but he also earns enough of it because of his nature. The show has some of its best material early on with Takkun and Muromi, but it gets weaker as it goes on and even more so when it brings Harpy into a play, a character I’m still not fond of in the slightest. The comedy does move quickly though and I like several of the situations, but the show as a whole doesn’t hit as many good marks as some previous ones.
Grade: B-
Streamed By: Crunchyroll
Review Equipment:
Sony KDS-R70XBR2 70″ LCoS 1080P HDTV, Dell 10.1 Netbook via HDMI set to 1080p, Onkyo TX-SR605 Receiver and Panasonic SB-TP20S Multi-Channel Speaker System With 100-Watt Subwoofer.
