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83. Keijo!!!!!!!!
https://myanimelist.net/anime/32686/Keijo

Well, it didn't take long to get to the other fake sport (which is now a real sport). Keijo is a female only sport, not really really because of like feminism or anything but because only females can play the sport effectively due to how it works. Basically the girls use their boobs and butts to knock other girls off into the water. If this sounds stupid... it is. But boy do they make it fun to watch.

Keijo is so dumb in places that I didn't actually like it at first. In fact, it's one of the rare shows that was almost an episode 1 drop where I'm happy I kept it. Truthfully the first few episodes are not great and it really takes until they get to the matches where it really shines. There is no real story besides the girls trying to win a match and Nozomi training to get better and perfect her special ability, the vacuum butt cannon.

The characters are fairly standard overall. Really, I think Nozomi is a pretty big star and one of my favorites from the year. I also just like her accent and seem to smile when she talks. I mean I can't say more beyond that. The show honestly doesn't give anyone else enough of a real personality or even running gags that are going to make you like a girl that much.

Lets get to something important. The fan service. I think a lot of shows are using fan service as something more for like "almost porn" purposes, but lost to anime has been a show that just has it because it make sense? I don't know but because the girls are so invested into the sport itself it almost seems like it's just a side effect of whats going on rather than viewer gratification (which it totally is but talking about like within the universe of the show). Like the girls in the show want you take them seriously and as hard as the premise of dumb things the show does to make that not so you do see the work they put in and have a certain level of investment.

Lets not kid ourselves though. There are a lot of t and a in the show. Even more heightened by the sheer number of parody moves that the girls use as their specials. Like the fucking fate rip off one. When stuff like that happened I knew I was watching a true gem of an anime. Like they have other things to like sword nipples (I think), Buttack on Titan, this thing where two girls join into the same suit like some combo attack. It actually references a number of different anime so if you've seen them it does help, but most of them have been pretty famous titles.

Honestly, if you're just going into this for the fan service you'll be disappointed. Despite there being a great deal of it it's not the type where you'll come back because of it. Instead you'll come back because the show is stupid and the show knows its stupid.
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Updated: July 27th, 2016.