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28. Seto no Hanayome (2007)
Zea (3/5)


SnH is about a dude who is saved from drowning by a mermaid, and is forced to either be executed, or to marry her. He chooses the latter, obviously, but now must engage in wacky antics as she becomes a part of his life, trying his hardest to protect her true identity. It's a straight comedy, and there's no real drama involved iirc. It's also an ecchi harem, which is arguably the worst genre in anime. But SnH works as more of a parody than anything, since it never attempts to take itself seriously, and is highly tuned to cramming as many comedic circumstances into each episode as it can.

Like Shomin Sample, I feel like SnH was assuredly a right place, right time sort of show, just with way more nostalgia tagged to it as I was making the list. I was still in the phase where I'd just started regularly consuming anime, and this felt like my coming out party to becoming a fucking nerd. While Japanese animation was always more story-driven than Western animation, I never really noticed any key differences in things like animation and dialogue at that age. Anime just held more realistic drawings and that was that. But SnH destroyed my preconceived notions with it's total, purposeful disregard of cohesion. Just in one scene you could witness multiple animation styles churned out almost seamlessly. It was really cool to see something like this.

And then you have the controversial comedy writing. Comedy is pretty subjective, obviously, so I think I'm the only one in b8anime who actually enjoyed this show. Granted, it was also from the mindset of a high schooler, and though I've rewatched it a few times in my life, it's probably been about 8 years since my last time visiting the show. Would it hold up for me? Nah, I doubt it. It's reliant on this sort of random style, where character designs and scenery will swap around as characters just yell a lot. I can easily see it annoying me, but as is, I remember it as among the funniest things I've ever watched, and I don't really care to risk losing that feeling. Few other anime have actually brought me to tears because I was laughing so hard. Hell, only one other show has made me do that on this list, and it's coming up eventually. And SnH put me in that situation on multiple occasions, and really, isn't that all a comedy should need to do?
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