Miss Monochrome Episode 3 | TFP Review
Buckeye: Turns out that Ru-chan is more than just a Roomba, so it’s no wonder why Monochrome is so attached to her. She bit the dust, but all she really needed was a new battery, one that is supercharged and powerful. In any case, that sure was great to see Monochrome doing that.
stardf29: Of course, Ru-chan is alive again. Because why not.
And a special AA battery powers up Miss Monochrome so she combines with Ru-chan to blast away random aliens that had come to massacre humans. Because why not.
This show is crazy.
bctaris: And now the absurdity is ratcheted up to the level I’m used to in these shorts. Nice touch with the transformation.
Oh, hey, and finally remembered to note the part of this show I really love, with the 80s OVA-style title card at the beginning of the episodes, reminiscent of Dominion. Sweet.
Hitsugi Amachi: This kind of absurdity is welcome and made this episode really fun to see. But it’s probably good that this is only a 5 minute short, since that kind of silliness would get boring if it went on for too long per installment.
EyeOfPain: It’s absurd, but only ever slightly. It always stays in the realm of “anime realism” if such a thing exists. For absurd shorts, things like Teekyu, Ai Mai Mi and Gag Manga Biyori go a lot farther; even the opening for Aiura delivered more honest-to-goodness craziness than what I feel I’m getting out of an episode of Monochrome.
Hitusgi Amachi: I grant you the first two episodes stayed well within “normal” anime “realism,” but having aliens suddenly appear to come and have a human hunt, only to be foiled by Miss Monochrome using a new AA battery that suddenly turns her into a combat android/robot, goes into the kind of absurdity that Kill la Kill is regularly inhabiting at the moment. This isn’t a bad thing, I’m liking both these shows at the moment, so “realism” be damned
EyeOfPain: The comedy works for you, and that’s great, but for whatever reason, it’s just not doing anything for me. We’ve had a few really good, surreal short comedies over the last year or so (Muromi-san was another at 12 minutes), so when I queue one of these up, I don’t want something that’s just “cute” (I absolutely hated Chi’s Sweet Home, yes we exist). Again, not meeting my personal expectations, and that’s my problem, not the show’s.
bctaris: … I didn’t mean to imply by bringing the term up that a comedy short-form show has to be off-the-wall absurd to be any good. (Much as I love AMM and Teekyu, my favorite comedy short is still the only slightly-crazy Yurumates.) I liked this already; the plot this time simply went a step further than it had since the opening gag of her mansion being sold out from under her, and I thought it was a fun twist, an indication this will stay on its toes and not just be the same daily pursuit of idol-dom for Miss M. (In fact, we’ve seen everything except any of her work towards that goal, this time only getting the off-screen joke of the pre-school.)
Hitsugi Amachi: I suspect that this is going to be a running gag throughout the series. We’re never going to see any of her idol engagements, though they will talk about them at times. At least, I kind of hope this is a running gag, because seeing her perform on stage would be less interesting (and a waste of the limited screentime they have in each installment) than what they’ve been doing so far.
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Anyone else think that Yui Horie is basically jealous Crypton and friends haven’t asked her to be the vocal base for a new Vocaloid?
