Elton One

I don’t watch much TV anymore but I do watch a lot of different things online, both to get away from the adverts and channel surfing to things I don’t want to watch, but mainly because I can watch what I want when I want. This is great, but one thing I do miss is waiting for the next episode of a series to air. Back in the days of 56k you could only watch new episodes on the day they came out and on TV, and I never had Sky; just BBC 1 and 2, ITV and Channel 4 (Channel 5 never worked), so waiting for a Simpson’s I hadn’t seen or the new Johnathan Creek was genuinly something to look forward to. My sister used to sulk for days if she missed one episode of Neighbour’s - now you can probably watch it all online and see all the cast naked. Even Madge Harold Bishop.

The current and previous seasons (11 and 12) of South Park have been put up online about six hours after they air in america which is impressive and unstoppable because within a few days there are hundreds of copies up all over the place and that’s great - everyone can see a new release at the same time. I’ve really enjoyed waiting for the next South Park (”Over Logging”, S12E06 is, again, awesome), and now I’ve found another new release series to look forward to

Now like most anime and manga I’ve seen, there is no point trying to comprehend what is happening either visually or narratively using any preconceptions from British or american equivilants. Just go with it; so a naked girl has just appeared in your bath and she tells you she’s from Planet Deviluke and her name’s Lala and she’s got an “all purpose costume robot” she invented called Peke which, when she wants a new outfit, morphs into what ever she feels like wearing and it’s all very, very sexual.

I’d go with that. You pretty much always find out eventually what is happening, just not in the usual obvious way. For any one who likes manga pantie and tit shots, this is the show for you. Jay. For any one else who just likes manga this show is also for you; it’s cute, it’s funny, it’s drawn by Kentaro Yabuki and has lots of interesting uses of distortion and sketch styles, the titles are great, video game style music starts playing at all the best times, Lala has loads of crazy robot inventions and all the manga girls are well cute. What else do you need?

I-O!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Love-Ru

Check out all the episodes out so far here:

http://www.veoh.com/channels/-ToLOVERu-

This video is amazing. The last bit is the best so keep watching.

So co-ordinated at video game dancing but the complete opposite at walking.