Director: Sugawara Seiki
Writer: Uezu Makoto (School Days, Seikon no Qwaser)
Main Cast:
Konishi Katsuyuki as Kazama Kenji
Hanazawa Kana as Shibasaki Roka
Saitou Chiwa as Karasuyama Chitose
Itou Shizuka as Takao Buchou
Character Design: Matsumoto Kentarou
Music: Matsuda Akito (Inu to Hasami wa Tsukaiyou)
Somewhere, deep in the sub-cockle area of D-Frag!, there is a decent plot. This plot is the story of two girls who form a game development club at high school. But, one of the girls (Roka) is really strange, and drives some people from the club thanks to her antics, and the reactions of her best friend and student council president (Chitose). The club's president (Buchou) wants her to stay, but eventually the strange girl leaves to form a new club with the student council president to save the original club. The show would then be about the girls reconciling and could actually be decent.
Sadly, this plot is underneath a large pile of dog vomit in the form of generic, unfunny, high school comedy. All of the things I've seen dozens of times before are here. Guy (Kenji) gets forced into joining a club he doesn't want to join? Check. Club needs a new member or it will be shut down? Check. Girls being violent towards men for no reason at all? Check. Super-powerful student council? Check. Yelling equals comedy? Check. Screaming at a guy that he's a pervert when he doesn't deserve it? Check. Forcing the girly guy to crossdress? Check. Forcing the super manly guy to crossdress? Check. Girls sexually harassing other girls? Check. It's all there and it isn't funny.
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| And all of this bullshit for such an exciting club. |
Worse than not being funny, the psychotic antics of the club commits the worst sin of storytelling. It makes me actively root against the people I'm "supposed" to root for because I hate them. So, when the emotional part of the story begins, I'm completely checked out. I don't give a damn if Roka's club has to be absorbed by the old game development club, because I'm hoping that happens so that Kenji can go back to his more interesting story. The one where he wants to become the most powerful delinquent in the school. That story would be interesting, this one is not.
Now that I think about it, D-Frag! is the combination of two shows that never should have gone together. Kenji should have stayed in his delinquent show and Roka and company should have stayed in their show about a school club that does nothing. Put the two together, and it's like peach cobbler and dogshit. And I am not a fan of peach cobbler and dogshit, so I have to fail this one.
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