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Now in Japan
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Written by maehara
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Thursday, 20 October 2005 00:00 |
 Comic Party Revolution definitely has a
different approach to the TV series - after four episodes, there's been
hardly a mention of doujinshi, and certainly no agonising by Kazuki
over what to draw. Instead, it's been a series of fun character
pieces, with conventions and doujinshi just being a fringe thing that
has drawn the characters together. For my money, that makes Revolution by far the better series...
3 - Our Goal is Superhuman Baseball!
Disaster has struck - Eimi and Yuu have been double-booked onto the
same table at the next Comic Party, and with no other spare slots left
it looks like they'll have to put up with each other for the convention
- until Taishi has an idea: a sporting contest, and the winner gets the
table to themselves. Baseball is chosen as the game - let battle
commence! Although there's the small matter of finding two teams,
first...
4 - My Feelings... Please Hear Them!
Asahi's been booked to perform her new single at the next Comic Party -
it's a song she's supposed to be writing herself, but she's been
suffering from a dose of writer's block. Minami kind-of picks up
on the problem - although she's thinking more along doujinshi lines
than musical ones - and decides a lack of experience with love is the
problem. The solution? A date with Kazuki - which would
probably go a lot smoother if Taishi and Mazuki weren't tailing his
every move, suffering from bad doses of jealousy...
The other good point Revolution has in its favour is the larger
cast - some of the characters that have been added to this incarnation
of the show really make it, while other characters such as Eimi and Yuu
have been tweaked slightly to make them much more appealing.
Both episodes here are outright comedy, playing on themes that have
been done any number of times in anime and manga, but that's the whole
point of parody, isn't it? While the stories are nothing
original, the characters and presentation make these episodes great fun
to watch, which is all you can really ask of a series.
Somewhere along the way, CPR seems to have done well enough to
make the move from OVA series to TV series - I have the first few
episode waiting to be watched, and if they're anything like as good as
the OVA I'll be a happy person. Comic Party Revolution is much better than the original series, and well worth checking out.
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