While "He is my Master" was the first Japanese Cartoons I actually watched, I think of this as when I finally let myself get into Manga show. As a kid I found it really freaky and off-putting but now I can sort of take it.
I sort of knew about "Please Teacher!" by coming across (no pun intended) certain stills so I thought it was just a Student/Teacher romance thing...maybe with a space ship...
But there is totally a space ship. I stumbled across this again on youtube and I guess that was it.
This is what I like to call a cotton candy and fried chicken kind of show: it is addictive entertainment that stimulates no intellectual part of you but keeps you coming back for the innate appeal of its design, its story, its characters as we go on a story filled with pathos, humor and sex appeal.
This narrative requires you to meet it two-thirds of the way through and you are happy to. Just accept that this disease is like some kind of shameful thing.
I watched the English dub and I am glad I did.
Looking back, I feel nostalgia for this and the time during which I watched it: it was my Friday night go-to and the title sequence and song was like nothing I had ever experienced before.
It's a serial of 12 episodes and THEN a sort of epilogue episode. Lots of Japanese cartoons do this apparently. They call it an OVA.
It's not one the examples I use for the elusive *good* Manga cartoon show but I will always feel affection for it.
I sort of knew about "Please Teacher!" by coming across (no pun intended) certain stills so I thought it was just a Student/Teacher romance thing...maybe with a space ship...
But there is totally a space ship. I stumbled across this again on youtube and I guess that was it.
This is what I like to call a cotton candy and fried chicken kind of show: it is addictive entertainment that stimulates no intellectual part of you but keeps you coming back for the innate appeal of its design, its story, its characters as we go on a story filled with pathos, humor and sex appeal.
This narrative requires you to meet it two-thirds of the way through and you are happy to. Just accept that this disease is like some kind of shameful thing.
I watched the English dub and I am glad I did.
Looking back, I feel nostalgia for this and the time during which I watched it: it was my Friday night go-to and the title sequence and song was like nothing I had ever experienced before.
It's a serial of 12 episodes and THEN a sort of epilogue episode. Lots of Japanese cartoons do this apparently. They call it an OVA.
It's not one the examples I use for the elusive *good* Manga cartoon show but I will always feel affection for it.