#Kanokon ova english sub series#
I don't know which is harder to believe-that someone managed to take this uninspired concept and pull a half-decent little series out of it, or that the creative team that pulled it off was the exact same one responsible for the TV series.
Not literally, of course-it's still Kanokon, meaning all kinds of dirty. Through a combination of unexpectedly subtle artistry, giving more screen time to the less-crazy secondary characters, and focusing on the bits of good buried in the sleazy mediocrity of the TV series, it had me doing a slow-motion double-take as I realized that it not only wasn't awful, it was actually kind of decent. Long story short, the two-episode Kanokon OVA is rather shockingly not bad.
Either way, if you actually liked Kanokon, you should love this little bonus slice-of-life take on it. It's hard to say which is more shocking-that someone would apply the considerable skill necessary to build the few bright bits in Kanokon into a half-decent pair of OVAs without abandoning its mind-in-the-gutter mentality, or that the creative team that pulled this off was the same one responsible for the TV series. The visual budget is lower and there's almost no music, but in spite of this-or, perhaps, because of the creativity forced by it-the OVAs are surprisingly artistic, and better-looking than the TV series, which hinted at some artistic skill but failed to capitalize on it. The colorful (and less filthy) secondary characters turn out to be more interesting than the two leads they get the time to do some amusingly real-seeming slice-of-life things. Of particular note is how good of a job the two episodes do at capturing the hot, lazy days of summer vacation-the pacing is languid yet not boring, and the sense of heat is almost palpable. Not literally, of course-it's still Kanokon, and still all kinds of dirty (although even the rampant fanservice and dirty jokes come across better). Through a combination of unexpectedly subtle artistry, giving more screen time to the less-crazy secondary characters, and focusing on the bits of good buried in the sleazy mediocrity of the TV series, it not only isn't awful, it's actually kind of decent. Put bluntly, the two-episode Kanokon OVA is rather shockingly not bad.
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