{"id":558,"date":"2006-06-18T21:04:56","date_gmt":"2006-06-18T11:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/?p=558"},"modified":"2006-06-18T21:04:56","modified_gmt":"2006-06-18T11:04:56","slug":"utawarerumono-episode-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/?p=558","title":{"rendered":"Utawarerumono – episode 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

“The Mercenary”<\/p>\n

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The episode also known as “I have large breasts and pert buttocks. I am going to have to kill you.”<\/p>\n

With a genuinely compelling opening featuring a lady assassin, followed by interminable scenes of horrid, horrid moe<\/i>, I have no idea how seriously I am supposed to take this series. When you’ve got scenes of council that are framed to crop off the top half of the subject’s face, that’s trouble. I expected better of Utawarerumono<\/i>, although I suppose the letters “T” and “A” are<\/i> in its title.<\/p>\n

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Karura, “the definition of T&A”, is a mercenary who has been forced into slavery by the bastard government of Na Tunk (apparently the only good countries in this world are Tusukuru and the Onkami Yamukai land). The people of Tusukuru take her in and eventually decide “hey, maybe this large breasted impossibly strong woman can help our cause”.<\/p>\n

The mathematical equation proposed by this episode is “Quality + moe<\/i> = no quality”. Seriously, watching Eruruu in this episode instilled in me a strong desire to punch her in the face, and that is not a good thing. I like the character of Karura, though, and I enjoy the fact that her collar is comparable to Hakuoro’s mask. I am uncertain as to whether she says it can’t be removed for purely aesthetic reasons or a matter of being literal, but it’s fine either way.<\/p>\n

The other highlight of this episode is that Benawi is actually a very good warrior and can put on a good show with Karura, but the story undermines itself by not having any idea of how to present the situation: Karura’s awesome power ultimately seems to be played for laughs, or is at least represented in a stupidly comical fashion.<\/p>\n

I overall liked this episode, but my notes suggest that the series has committed “moe<\/I> suicide”. Can Utawarerumono<\/i> decide whether it is serious or a really weak comedy? Let’s stay tuned and find out.<\/p>\n

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“The Mercenary” The episode also known as “I have large breasts and pert buttocks. I am going to have to kill you.” With a genuinely compelling opening featuring a lady assassin, followed by interminable scenes of horrid, horrid moe, I have no idea how seriously I am supposed to take this series. When you’ve got […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-utawarerumono"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}