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dangermousieBecause I can’t watch RahXephon without Husband who wants to see it as well, I started watching Pretear, which someone on f-list recommended. I can’t remember who it was, but thank you, because I am two episodes in and I am having a hilarious, great time. No, Trigun is safe as my favorite anime. And Fushigi Yuugi is still my favorite shoujo anime. But Pretear is delicious, giggly fun, though not necessarily in the way TPTB intended.
The concept has been designed by pervs. Or people on crack. Or pervs on crack. The good kind. Freud could spend happy months analyzing the set-up. Leafe Knights protect “leafe” (aka life force of all beings). Now there is Princess of Disaster who is trying to destroy all leafe and end the world. Leafe Knights (“leafe” makes them sound like pretentious California yuppies) are strong but they can’t win without a girl knight, a Chosen One (down, Buffy!) This teenage girl (whose title is Pretear) fights the bad eco monsters by ‘preting’ with her Leafe Knights (all male, ranging from grown-up hotties to children and one borderline toddler). What is ‘preting?’ Well, here is where the fun is. To fight, Pretear and a Knight become one. Yes. Indeed. And in a Karmic way, this happened right after I told Husband, this is the one anime I could see showing kids. No, it turns out, it was't. Oh boy, how it wasn't.
Now, sit tight as I run through all the phallicness of the process: the girl and the guy hold hands and all of a sudden they are in an alternate dimension. Both stark naked (throw in some orgasmic looks on girl’s face). They get closer and closer and as the guy’s body touches the girl’s he disappears in a burst. White burst. Yup. The girl ends up being enveloped by something that looks like a placenta but we won’t go into that. Do you think that’s it? Think again. When Himeno (the story’s Pretear) asks Hayate (the first knight she ‘prets’ with), where he is, he says “inside you.” And then he tells her to use a weapon (he is a knight with the wind power), she reaches to the glowing ball of energy that forms between her legs and voila, she has a giant sword. At this point, my eyes are bugging out of my head (and she finally gets an outfit), just in time for me to ignore some last minute back-pedaling in the form of Hayate saying this isn’t physical. Yes. And I believe in Santa Claus too.
The most hilarious or disturbing (depending on your perspective) thing about this is that while four of the Leafe Knights are adults, three are kids. It’s all fun and games when this procedure happens with Hayate or Sasame who are both hot and grown up, but when, after one of Himeno’s pretings, the kids are all ‘pret with me next, Himeno” I just…
Seriously, where did the writers get the crack?
Leaving aside the bizarreness of the premise of the fight (save the eco-system through teen orgasms???) I actually enjoy this. Himeno is a cool heroine. She is spunky, and fun, and active. She is also a bit bossy. And thankfully, her reaction to seven strange people showing up in her garden and telling her she is something called Pretear is to tell them she isn’t dumb enough to fall for a stupid gag. And I like some of the Leafe Knights a lot. Hayate is hot and grumpy. He is the one who discovers Himeno is Pretear, and he is the one who doesn’t want her to be involved. I am sure Hayate and Himeno are the OTP for this show, since they fight all the time, while at the same time, he becomes her shield and takes the wounds she would have had on himself and she thinks he is uber-hot. Girls like a challenge, I guess. I also like Sasame, the blond, uber-hot Knight, who is as kind and understanding as Hayate is brusque and walled-off. Though if there is any love triangle (not yet, but who knows), he will definitely lose as it seems in anime, if you met the girl first, she will like you (if you are a. grown up b. hot and c. not evil) and Hayate and Himeno met first.
The artwork is beautiful. I love the characters. The humor is spot on. The premise, even if it’s insane, amuses me by that very fact. And I already have an OTP. What’s not to like?
And this is only 13 eps which is great. Of course, this whole thing is making me wonder about the knights. I know they are from another dimension, but how are they created. Do they have any families? What do the parents of the youngest think, letting their kids wander around with random young men who sic them on teen girls? Hmmmm
Himeno handles Hayate’s giant sword. Ahem:
OTP!
The Heroine. With Pink Snow. Even the weather color-coordinates in this world:
Hayate. He is like a Fushigi Yuugi escapee. Tamahome attitude and Hotohori hair. I have yet to see a bad in this. But let me examine him closer. Much closer:
Sasame, Himeno and Hayate. Buffy never had it this good with her being Chosen:
Yup, true love no doubt:
Sasame. So blond and elegant he makes fanon Draco weep tears of envy:
Especially since he has sexy earrings and no pesky Potter to take all the glory:
Pretty, pretty angst:
“If I were any prettier, I’d fall in love with me myself:”
“I am pretty therefore I angst:”
The five Leafe Knights who aren’t bishounen and thus don’t get angst, OTPs, or in-depth characters. Ahhhh, to be beautiful is mandatory if you want to get ahead in life, in anime as much as in high school, it seems:
Sasame and Himeno color-coordinate:
Where is his hand, precisely?????
The girl and her harem:
Oooooh. Oooooh OTP with the kissing. Spoilery, I guess, but come on, if you couldn’t figure out they were the OTP from the first ep, you have had too much preting lately and it sucked out your brain:
The characters and their wardrobe:
Wallpaper:
The concept has been designed by pervs. Or people on crack. Or pervs on crack. The good kind. Freud could spend happy months analyzing the set-up. Leafe Knights protect “leafe” (aka life force of all beings). Now there is Princess of Disaster who is trying to destroy all leafe and end the world. Leafe Knights (“leafe” makes them sound like pretentious California yuppies) are strong but they can’t win without a girl knight, a Chosen One (down, Buffy!) This teenage girl (whose title is Pretear) fights the bad eco monsters by ‘preting’ with her Leafe Knights (all male, ranging from grown-up hotties to children and one borderline toddler). What is ‘preting?’ Well, here is where the fun is. To fight, Pretear and a Knight become one. Yes. Indeed. And in a Karmic way, this happened right after I told Husband, this is the one anime I could see showing kids. No, it turns out, it was't. Oh boy, how it wasn't.
Now, sit tight as I run through all the phallicness of the process: the girl and the guy hold hands and all of a sudden they are in an alternate dimension. Both stark naked (throw in some orgasmic looks on girl’s face). They get closer and closer and as the guy’s body touches the girl’s he disappears in a burst. White burst. Yup. The girl ends up being enveloped by something that looks like a placenta but we won’t go into that. Do you think that’s it? Think again. When Himeno (the story’s Pretear) asks Hayate (the first knight she ‘prets’ with), where he is, he says “inside you.” And then he tells her to use a weapon (he is a knight with the wind power), she reaches to the glowing ball of energy that forms between her legs and voila, she has a giant sword. At this point, my eyes are bugging out of my head (and she finally gets an outfit), just in time for me to ignore some last minute back-pedaling in the form of Hayate saying this isn’t physical. Yes. And I believe in Santa Claus too.
The most hilarious or disturbing (depending on your perspective) thing about this is that while four of the Leafe Knights are adults, three are kids. It’s all fun and games when this procedure happens with Hayate or Sasame who are both hot and grown up, but when, after one of Himeno’s pretings, the kids are all ‘pret with me next, Himeno” I just…
Seriously, where did the writers get the crack?
Leaving aside the bizarreness of the premise of the fight (save the eco-system through teen orgasms???) I actually enjoy this. Himeno is a cool heroine. She is spunky, and fun, and active. She is also a bit bossy. And thankfully, her reaction to seven strange people showing up in her garden and telling her she is something called Pretear is to tell them she isn’t dumb enough to fall for a stupid gag. And I like some of the Leafe Knights a lot. Hayate is hot and grumpy. He is the one who discovers Himeno is Pretear, and he is the one who doesn’t want her to be involved. I am sure Hayate and Himeno are the OTP for this show, since they fight all the time, while at the same time, he becomes her shield and takes the wounds she would have had on himself and she thinks he is uber-hot. Girls like a challenge, I guess. I also like Sasame, the blond, uber-hot Knight, who is as kind and understanding as Hayate is brusque and walled-off. Though if there is any love triangle (not yet, but who knows), he will definitely lose as it seems in anime, if you met the girl first, she will like you (if you are a. grown up b. hot and c. not evil) and Hayate and Himeno met first.
The artwork is beautiful. I love the characters. The humor is spot on. The premise, even if it’s insane, amuses me by that very fact. And I already have an OTP. What’s not to like?
And this is only 13 eps which is great. Of course, this whole thing is making me wonder about the knights. I know they are from another dimension, but how are they created. Do they have any families? What do the parents of the youngest think, letting their kids wander around with random young men who sic them on teen girls? Hmmmm
Himeno handles Hayate’s giant sword. Ahem:
OTP!
The Heroine. With Pink Snow. Even the weather color-coordinates in this world:
Hayate. He is like a Fushigi Yuugi escapee. Tamahome attitude and Hotohori hair. I have yet to see a bad in this. But let me examine him closer. Much closer:
Sasame, Himeno and Hayate. Buffy never had it this good with her being Chosen:
Yup, true love no doubt:
Sasame. So blond and elegant he makes fanon Draco weep tears of envy:
Especially since he has sexy earrings and no pesky Potter to take all the glory:
Pretty, pretty angst:
“If I were any prettier, I’d fall in love with me myself:”
“I am pretty therefore I angst:”
The five Leafe Knights who aren’t bishounen and thus don’t get angst, OTPs, or in-depth characters. Ahhhh, to be beautiful is mandatory if you want to get ahead in life, in anime as much as in high school, it seems:
Sasame and Himeno color-coordinate:
Where is his hand, precisely?????
The girl and her harem:
Oooooh. Oooooh OTP with the kissing. Spoilery, I guess, but come on, if you couldn’t figure out they were the OTP from the first ep, you have had too much preting lately and it sucked out your brain:
The characters and their wardrobe:
Wallpaper:
