Kita ze Inbou! - キタぜ陰謀!

46 seconds of nice boats, or 5 minutes with random WTFage?

After Kadokawa’s showboating, they finally put out the first episodes for Haruhi-chan and Churuya-san, much to everyone’s dismay.

So I sit back and watch and, well, it was just really random. Even in his dreams, Kyon can’t seem to get away from the SOS-dan. He meets Itsuki dressed up as Mt. Fuji, Tsuruya-san dressed as a crane (with the soul of a hawk), and a tiny eggplant that is Yuki. I did find the part with Haruhi abusing Mikuru funny for a bit, but it somehow felt stale the second time around. There’s really nothing to say about this short, other than that that’s what it really is: a short, and not on the level of TV anime episodes. For something that’s about five minutes long, though, I do think there should be some hilarious stuff in here. Maybe next time. Despite what was lacking, I did enjoy hearing the familiar seiyuu once again. Speaking of which, the Haruhi-chan OP is really awesome and is probably the best thing about this YouTube series.

Churuya-san now in ONA form, but how is it? Well if you’ve read the 4koma (yonkoma), you’d know what to expect? Apparently, the 2 minute short really is just taking bits from the original source and putting it in animated form. Though nice to see and cute to hear Matsuoka Yuki’s adorable voice, I think just reading it panel to panel panel to panel makes it more funny than with animated visuals and sound, but that’s just me. I did enjoy it, but it’s not something uber great.

If you’d like to check both series out, you can watch them at Kadokawa’s YouTube channel here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/KADOKAWAanime