3ET: Fuuun Ishin Dai Shogun

Oh, for fuck's sake. Really? Really?!?

Studio: J.C. Staff

Director: Watanabe Takashi (Ikkitousen, Shakugan no Shana)

Writer: Satou Dai (Eureka Seven, Ergo Proxy)

Main Cast:

Kakihara Tetsuya as Tokugawa Keiichirou

Kawasumi Ayako as Hattori Kiriko

Tamura Yukari as Chiharu

Character Design: Iijima Hiroya (Tiger and Bunny, Seikon no Qwaser)

Music: 

This might be one of easiest 3ET's I've written because Fuuun Ishin Dai Shogun is such a simple show. The plot is that the most powerful street punk in Nagasaki is actually a secret descendent of the ruling family named Tokugawa Keiichirou. This means he can pilot one of the secret giant robots in feudal Japan that kept the Americans out in this alternate universe. And there is a hit out on his head after the shogun is killed in the capital. It seems pretty basic, but there are a pair of twists. One twist is that the only way Keiichirou can pilot the robot is if he is a virgin, which of course he is. If he wasn't, creepy male anime fans couldn't self-insert themselves into him. The other twist is that this show isn't about giant robots, it's about boobs.

And there's a reason for that, which is no one is watching this show for the plot. The way this show keeps Keiichirou a virgin is not his will to pilot his giant robot. No, that's far too classy for a show like this. Instead, he gets hives and passes out whenever a woman touches him. This excuse for a joke gets used ad nauseum to the point I'd be sick of it even if it was funny in the first place. In fact, that goes for all the jokes that are used in this show. Like when men are getting killed at a whorehouse, I guess the policeman who has it in for Keiichirou needs to constantly comment that he's fucking men, right? So funny, they had to do it eleventy times. The rest of the cast is rounded out by several boobs. One is a pair of huge boobs named Hattori Kiriko who wants to keep Keiichirou alive and a small pair of boobs attached to a fox girl who wants his dick named Chiharu. Needless to say, neither are interesting.

Our hero, barging in on women in a bathhouse. I hope he dies.

I'll also point out the show's immature obsession with boobs and sex. Each episode is not about character development or world building or moving the plot along, it's about Keiichirou desperately trying to get laid. It is laid out as his manly duty or some machismo garbage like that. And there is little more pathetic than a virgin boy who has no idea what he's doing trying to get laid. I don't even know why I'm pretending this show should be looked at critically. The people who want to watch it know what kind of show it is. They want their anime boobs, they get their anime boobs. After they watch, they can clean up their computer with some kleenex and move onto something else. 

The last thing I'll say before tossing Fuuun Ishin Dai Shogun into the fail bin is that it is animated like shit. The characters look fine, but the movement is terrible. I'm talking upper bodies being dragged poorly across the screen to indicate running. I'm talking freeze frame action scenes. I'm talking mechs that I can not remember ever moving in a wide shot. The only thing cheaper than the animation in this show would be the writing, and that makes it a show I want to forget.