SDS on Abunai Sisters

Seen at Ogiue Maniax:

“Not so!” say Kano Mika and Kano Kyoko, two women known collectively as the “Kano Sisters” who appeared at Otakon 2008 alongside JAM Project and other guests to announce their new anime: an anime about them. And apparently, all they had at the time were some drawings of them as characters by a guy who makes Japanese baseball team mascots, which they just used over and over.

This reminds me about the Hi Hi Puffy Ami-Yumi animation. I survived about 3 or 4 minutes of it. But I listen to the OP track on MP3 sometimes, as it came on my Puffy CD.

Abunai Sisters is a 90-minute DVD release with 30 3-minute episodes. It’s being made by Production I.G. Yes, PRODUCTION I.G. You like Ghost in the Shell? How about Innocence? Stand Alone Complex? That’s all Production I.G and so is ABUNAI SISTERS. It also has the most hilarious pricing scheme ever, one which lowers the cost of each individual DVD if more people end up buying it overall. The lowest it goes is $65, the highest $340. $65 minimum for 90 minutes of bad tits jokes and an English-with-Japanese-subtitles-only release. At least Bandai Visual had good properties! So if you run any sort of bad anime panel at a convention, this should probably be on your list.

When I think of Production I.G., I think of Moribito.

Anyway, thus encouraged by SDS, I braved the video at ANN.

It turned out much worse than Hi Hi Puffy. First of all, SDS forgot to mention that Abunai Sisters is a horrifying 3D that GONZO would've been ashamed to produce. But also, although Ami and Yumi were conscious of their celebrity status, they were not intent on frat humor. As a result, I started skipping pretty quickly, and probably did not accumulate more than a minute or two.

I don't know what I expected. Some things are so bad that they are good, but I guess this isn't it.

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