With Season 2 around, almost the entirety of Season 1 makes a return, sadly omitting the interesting Japan Mignon A-B sided French-Japanese segment with Thibault Tresca in full replacement for the Ikemen-focused B-side, which was underwhelming to say the least. Which is why it makes a perfect deal on it being a kuso anime. Also, because of its gag humor and parody, you didn't know quite what to expect being the first run-through of a show that is evidently self-aware of itself, and it doesn't care. If you've watched Pop Team Epic back in the day, it was truly absurd and a super freak of even having a brain's IQ worth to assess the anime, even in minute detail, because it is the definition of "fool me once, shame on me". So, how does Season 2 fare against its almost 5-year old prequel season? I would say it's good, but sadly (and obviously) not at the heights of what Season 1 managed to accomplish of its surrealism, absurdity, and non-sequitur natures. And that was Season 1 in a wrap back in early 2018.Īnd here we are again, with Season 2 greenlit right at the tail-end of 2021 after the TV re-broadcast of Season 1 a.k.a Pop Team Epic Repeat, adding in Jun Aoki's Space Neko Company to put more shame to both Takeshobo (the manga company that the source material is published in) and King Records (the anime producer). Not to mention that Sumire Uesaka's OP was a straight BANGER in the absurd midst of thinking that HOW would a show like this get a song that is pure master-lyrical fire. Just a recap, Bkub Okawa's gag parody manga that got translated into the anime, the manga is very rough on the heels, but the anime that was produced by Kamikaze Douga under the helm of its director Jun Aoki (which he would later go on to form his very own studio Space Neko Company), it was unlike ANYTHING that I've seen before with its metaverse of parodies and gag humor, and would easily define as a masterpiece show, just because it's a kuso a.k.a shit-posting anime. Of course, there were other notable shows that only got the attention from the audience that they serve, but if there's one unique show that I constantly would remember being that wacky outcast, it would be Pop Team Epic. As a sidenote, shows like Madhouse's Sora yori mo Tooi Basho a.k.a A Place Further Than The Universe broke the underwhelming season for its CGDCT-like adventure drama which to this day, is still one of the best masterpiece shows that I've watched in my entire life, period. Well, back in Winter 2018, there was a series like it, and based off of mangaka Bkub Okawa's 4-koma manga, that would I would like to ask you a geunine question: Do you still or even remember that Pop Team Epic was a thing back then? For context, anime back then was unlike anime today, served by the beatitudes of its long-standing genres which have come to almost define any seasonal list and stacking heaps upon heaps of mediocrity with some stand-out titles we've come to know in the new decade of the 2020s. ANIME IS SAVED, ONCE AGAIN AND TWICE OVER, ALMOST 5 YEARS LATER.
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