College student Nomoto finds himself involved with beautiful but violent Hitomi and the criminally sponsored world of underground fighting with human-animal hybrids known as Killing Bites. Season Premiere.
1st Bite - "The One With the Sharper Fangs Will Win"
First Thoughts.
I had a feeling this show was going to be more than ecchi and gory, and I was not disappointed. We had a girl fighting in her underwear for almost the entirety of the show! There was even some nudity, which always raises the likelihood that I'll blog it. But the best thing is this show is about a Honey Badger! Just imagine if you took that hilarious YouTube video "Honey Badger Don't Care," crossed it with a beautiful high school girl, and then turned the whole thing into a tournament style fighting anime. That is this show!
Seriously, I saw how the main character was crossed with a ratel, and thought, "Wait a minute, that's a honey badger. I'll look that up later." Oh, yes, it was a honey badger! Not only are there naked girls, girls fighting in their underwear, trashy exploitative conventions, but there's a honey badger come to life as a stacked teenage girl, and she DOES NOT CARE. I don't care how terrible the rest of the premise is, I've got all my reasons to watch this show now.
Heh.
This show set the tone really early with a kidnapping, attempted rape, mangled bodies, and a POV character puking his guts out. Twice. This is a show that is having fun with its material and not taking itself too seriously. It took a while for us to get to the opening credits too.
It looks like there's going to be a small harem of animal girls around this sad sack Nomoto guy. He'll have a Honey Badger (who doesn't care, except for honey and that Shidou guy), a Cheetah (she's pettanko, of course), and a fluffy Rabbit.
It's nice that they gave us the names of the harem already.
I enjoyed how the episode brought us into the story without much intro, except for that quick aside about zaibatsu, influential conglomerates controlling the Japanese economy from behind the scenes.
No censorship on that gory scene. Those guys in the van got what they deserved.
Ha. Puke!
This tough chick is just walking around in her underwear. I like her already.
Um. That's a severed head in that garbage dump. Oh. Lots of severed, uh, body parts in that dump.
Oh. That man doesn't look like he's going to help you, dude.
Puke again! I like this guy too!
I suppose I'm just going to have to get used to writing Therianthrope. That is literally the definition and translation of 獣人 (じゅうじん, using the kanji for beast and person).
I don't need this sci-fi crap about making better fighters for the champions of the zaibatsu and their underground fighting. Let's get to fighting already.
Ah. Hitomi was just late to her match. She was worried, not scared inside the van.
So, will I need to remember Brute Leo and his real name after this fight?
Well, that's one way to get this accidental witness involved in the fight. Make him the bettor using his body as collateral. Hitomi better win.
And boin. This show is going to have some funny parts too. I love trashy shows like this.
Okay, let's get ready to rumble!
Wow. That's a tough little girl. She's getting pounded.
Lion's Roar, but Honey Badger Don't Care.
Nice. Just spit those toes out. They'll grow back, I guess?
Haha. This Leo guy has a complex about being called "stupid."
Slash. That's it. Simple. Effective.
Oh man, this show is so trashy. Lick that screen, you dirty old man!
I love it! Rock and roll eye catches. This show is just having too much fun.
And Nomoto begins to build his harem. His violent, rude, harem of girls who don't like him.
And boin again!
Aw. Hitomi can't help but like a guy who's worried about a blood covered girl because she might scar. She's being treated like a cute girl, of course she likes that.
Well, yeah. A honey badger likes honey on her pancakes.
A honey badger apparently likes head pats.
Shidou gives another info dump, which makes me ask why we need a narrator, but I supposed it's necessary for Nomoto to know.
These zaibatsu fights are centuries old, yet they need English words as the title of their fights. Okay.
Yeah. Let's yell all this incriminating stuff at the top of our lungs out in public.
Hellooooo Hot Secretary Lady!
Shidou insisted on Hitomi being Nomoto's bodyguard, since he's her sole sponsor. Using someone else's money, but these criminal organizations have rules to follow. Also, he said that Nomoto might provide something that Hitomi needs. I'm thinking not bodily fluids... but a honey badger might need to care about something, or someone else, to instill a sense of self preservation. Is Shidou not good enough? Maybe that affection is all imprinting, so it doesn't count.
This show has funny background music too. I love this trashy show!
Why would the bodyguard send her assignment out alone by himself?
Helloooo Trenchcoat Wearing Pervert! Wasn't she one of the ring girls in the OP?
And that's nudity. Locked into covering this show now.
Youch. So, is she a hedgehog or a porcupine?
And cliffhanger.
Ha! This show even has a funny omake! The Honey Badger follows the Greater Honey Guide to honey. It doesn't mean she shares it, though, cuz Honey Badger Don't Care.
Geh.
Yes, this show is NSFW. Not only because girls fight in their underwear, limbs get ripped off in gory, bloody scenes, but there are breasts. Great ones!
I was actually surprised there were bare breasts in this show. We had the usual ecchi stuff of accidentally squeezing a breast, with a great sound effect I might add, but I didn't expect this treat at the end. I suppose the focus is going to be on the fighting and the drama around all that stuff, but this flash of nudity (literally in this case) gave the show a Triage X kind of vibe. Nothing wrong with that.
Plus, look at all the girls and women we'll get to ogle during the season.
This show is definitely going to be my guilty pleasure this season.
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