Weekly Anime Impressions – Fall 2014 – Week 4 – Ore Twintail and Shirobako Episode 4

I hope everyone had an enjoyable Halloween (personally, I don’t celebrate that holiday because of Trick or Treaters, they are rather annoying).

In case you missed it, I have reviewed Tamako Love Story a few days back.

Ore no Twintail ni Narimasu

Yep, the leader of the Elemerians already got defeated and this is only the fourth episode!

I admit that this is episode was so ridiculous that it’s perhaps the most enjoyable one yet. As expected, Thouars was Tail Blue when she stole some information to make the Tail Gear and fought to save twin tails from becoming the enemy. Not only that, she received the same treatment like Tail Red from others on her planet. As revealed in an earlier episode, her planet was eradicated of twin tails. Because of this, she gave up her twin tail affinity, put it in the Tail Red Gear and looks for a person to save Earth from experiencing the same fate. This can explain why Tail Red is so popular with everyone.

While the battle was enjoyable, I find it amusing that Tail Red already defeated Drag Guildy, who is madly in love with twin tails. At least he got the fight he deserved and got defeated by her with a smile before he exploded. Even so, it seems that Erina is on to Souji as she mistakes him for Tail Red. It makes me wonder if Souji will be forced to attend school as Tail Red in a female school uniform or forced to play dress up by other girls one day. I bet Erina will have a field day with this. Either way, it seems that Erina joins the fray as the third warrior next time.

Shirobako

While Zuka was good, her stage fright got the best of her.

While this episode focus mostly on Aoi goes to an outing with her friends, it’s nice to see a glimpse of the voice actor industry. It seems that Zuka has a lot of talent, but it appears that stage fright brought her down, especially when a famous professional voice actor comes in to audition for the part. From this, it just shows that the voice actor industry is rather competitive and Zuka needs to be more self-confident in order to be successful in the industry.

As for the second part, it was okay but not that amazing considering that the staff wasn’t there to make it really funny. I admit that watching the directors get into a heated argument over air conditioning was hilarious. At the same time, it seems that the script barely got done because of it, which could be a bad omen for what is in store next week with a worker threatening to quit from the production.