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... for the fanservice aspects, but not much else.⏎ James Beckett ⏎ Rating: 2.5 ⏎ So far as sex comedies go, I can at least say that Please Put Them On, Takamine-san does a ⏎ fine job in the “sex” department. There are just so many shots of boobs, butts, panties, and even ⏎ uncensored nipples that I'm sure anyone of such persuasions will find something to like. The ⏎ show's also pretty kinky, what with the voyeurism and exhibitionism that is baked right into the ⏎ presence—not to mention the big “Will Kick You in The Dick, Frame You For Assault, and Then ⏎ Demand That You Gently Slip a Fresh Pair of Panties On to Her” energy that the tit-ular ⏎ Takamine has going on. To be honest, it's the dressing and undressing angle that I find the ⏎ most, er, “academically engaging” in this show. In an industry that is plagued with sex-less ⏎ fanservice, I always appreciate it when a show is willing to explore the more intimate and ⏎ physical angles that come from sexual relationships. ⏎ The problem, from where I stand, is that Please Put Them On, Takamine-san just doesn't ⏎ accomplish much in the “comedy” half of the “sex comedy” equation. Sure, we've got plenty of ⏎ freakouts on behalf of our protagonist Kouishi over all of the boobies and flagrant riding-crop ⏎ whippings of the laws of spacetime that he gets exposed to, but he has absolutely no ⏎ personality otherwise—and the comic timing of his suffering simply sputters and dies most of the ⏎ time. Takamine herself is equally one note—and though her shocking straightforwardness when ⏎ it comes to her body and the nature of her powers could make for great comedy, the anime, for ⏎ whatever reason, cannot construct a gag to save its life. ⏎ There is a bit in back-half of the premiere where Takamine wistfully recounts how she ⏎ discovered her idiotically specific power to remove her underwear and cast it off into some nebulous ⏎ quantum void in exchange for control over time. Then comes the cutesy chalk-drawing ⏎ flashback footage of her fifth-grade track competition as this girl so plainly (and ⏎ proudly!) describes the time that the sheer force of her pride and willpower caused her to piss ⏎ herself and strip naked in front of an entire class of elementary schoolers. The whole sequence ⏎ should be a crackup, but instead it just comes and goes without eliciting so much as an amused ⏎ snort. ⏎ If you're desperate for more soft-core sauciness in your seasonal rotation, then I'm sure Please ⏎ Put Them On, Takamine-san will get the job done, though I'll have to recommend that you ⏎ on it if you're expecting to be genuinely entertained in the dozen or so minutes of clarity that ⏎ come after you finish up with your…you know, “business.” You'd be better served by visiting one ⏎ of those websites that can offer you more “reading material” than you will ever even know what ⏎ to do with while dispensing with the inconvenient pretense of needing to function as a proper ⏎ comedy.