"Rio: Rainbow Gate!" is the first new show to come out of Japan this year.
Aaaand.. there's no particular reason why.
The show seems to be mostly about casinos and the dealers in the casinos. Who, of course all look like this:
(Not the little one)
The main character of the show is a girl named Mint. (I mean, I guess she's the main character; they introduced her first, but she isn't really a part of the plot at all). She has a cute plush named Choco.
Maybe the director likes Mint Chocolate. A ha haah, good one, Mk.
She meets a dealer who works at the casino, named Rio, with big boobs and magical powers or something to make everyone win around her and people call her the "Goddess of Victory". Okay, fine, whatever. But when I see these things...
...and this, which literally occurs within the first 30 seconds of the show for pretty much no reason...
...I pretty much can figure out the gist of the show. Yeah, its a fanservice-type, this time with a casino theme! Brilliant.
The biggest problem is that I can't write off this show as hopelessly average, even though I'd like to. The production values actually seem quite high: the boobs are bouncing away, but they're animated quite well (felt weird writing that) and the background scenery is very pretty.
Aaah....
It also has one fighting scene, which is surprisingly fluid and well-choreographed.
...but who cares! Boobs!
Once we get down to the inevitable "showdown" of gambling, the show gets a bit different. My first clue is that I started hearing dialog like this:
Great, now it sounds like average shonen tournament-style exposition to make the show seem more intense.
When the card playing actually begins, though, it turns into a Loveless-style CGI'd battle scene that at first looks like a Sailor Moon transformation but ends up in Card World which looks like a dirtier Alice in Wonderland. Seriously, when it started I didn't even know what was happening. I actually thought the ending theme song was starting. But, nope, time to get Yu-gi-oh! on this bitch.
So, okay. The Goddess of Victory ends up winning (shocker) and everyone cheers. But how did she even win during all this animated stuff? It's not like the show really explains it. All that happened was that Rio said she didn't sense that her opponent would get the cards he wanted. Okay, fine, but was all that colorful floaty stuff really necessary to have in there? They could have really stuck with the shonen theme and just had an inner monologue where Rio talks seriously to herself and weighs her options at length.
If you're reading this and perhaps think that this show actually may have kind of an interesting addition to the whole blatant fanservice deal, let me close with this last scene. It's a winner.
I'll let you predict the last panel.
*Trip*
*Fall*
*Grab*
Guess what happens! The answer will be in the next blog post for those of you who have never set eyes on anime before.
Overall, I normally detest things like this, but it looks too nice for me to call it absolute crap. Plus the ending theme sucks.
Grade: C
Keep reading for more updates! We're wading through every show, which means I'm sure I'll have plenty more fan-service griping to share with all of you.
読んでありがとう !
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