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Taboo Tattoo - Satire or Magical Harem Fighting Anime?
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Dave Baranyi
Jul 5, 2016, 4:18:18 PM7/5/16
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“Taboo Tattoo” is an adaptation of a magical fighting manga series from “Monthly
Comic Alive”, which is nominally a seinen manga magazine but which specializes
in “cute girl” fantasy action series that are usually indistinguishable from
their shounen equivalents.
Justice Akatsuka is a teen who lives with his grandfather in a dojo and who
regularly gets himself into problems because he wants to help people who are in
trouble. One day Justice helps out an old guy who is being mugged by two toughs
in a subway. As a reward for being saved the old guy puts a tattoo onto the palm
of one of Justice's hands. The tattoo gives an electric shock to Justice and
won't peel off or wash off.
Then one morning while going to school with his overly busty and clingy
childhood friend, Justice runs into a small girl who also has a tattoo and their
tattoos react together momentarily. Later on the small girl leads Justice on a
chase and then gets into a martial arts battle with him, eventually powering up
her tattoo in order to beat Justice. It turns out that the tattoos are military
weapons that have been stolen from the US and are being sold and used by
criminal organizations, and that the girl is in Japan in order to retrieve the
tattoos.
This was a TV Tokyo broadcast, and it really felt like a TV Tokyo shounen
magical fighting anime. There were so many cliches that it felt like going
through a checklist. The animation was also very uneven – great during the fight
scenes and jarring during the non-fight scenes. It also had a fair amount of
traditional cringe-worthy shounen “humorous” moments.
The most interesting part of the first episode to me is the voice actor who
plays Justice – Makoto Furukowa – because he was the voice actor for Saitama in
“One Punch Man”, and Furukowa did the Saitama voice in a number of humorous
situations in the episode even though that wasn't how he did the voice of
Justice most of the time. The irony is that “Taboo Tattoo” is the very kind of
anime that “One Punch Man” satirizes.
At this point I'm not certain if “Taboo Tattoo” is going to be a satire itself
or if it is going to become a straight forward magic fighting harem anime. So
I'm going to stick around for another episode to see which way the show goes,
and if Furukowa does more Saitama voices.
Dave Baranyi
Comic Alive”, which is nominally a seinen manga magazine but which specializes
in “cute girl” fantasy action series that are usually indistinguishable from
their shounen equivalents.
Justice Akatsuka is a teen who lives with his grandfather in a dojo and who
regularly gets himself into problems because he wants to help people who are in
trouble. One day Justice helps out an old guy who is being mugged by two toughs
in a subway. As a reward for being saved the old guy puts a tattoo onto the palm
of one of Justice's hands. The tattoo gives an electric shock to Justice and
won't peel off or wash off.
Then one morning while going to school with his overly busty and clingy
childhood friend, Justice runs into a small girl who also has a tattoo and their
tattoos react together momentarily. Later on the small girl leads Justice on a
chase and then gets into a martial arts battle with him, eventually powering up
her tattoo in order to beat Justice. It turns out that the tattoos are military
weapons that have been stolen from the US and are being sold and used by
criminal organizations, and that the girl is in Japan in order to retrieve the
tattoos.
This was a TV Tokyo broadcast, and it really felt like a TV Tokyo shounen
magical fighting anime. There were so many cliches that it felt like going
through a checklist. The animation was also very uneven – great during the fight
scenes and jarring during the non-fight scenes. It also had a fair amount of
traditional cringe-worthy shounen “humorous” moments.
The most interesting part of the first episode to me is the voice actor who
plays Justice – Makoto Furukowa – because he was the voice actor for Saitama in
“One Punch Man”, and Furukowa did the Saitama voice in a number of humorous
situations in the episode even though that wasn't how he did the voice of
Justice most of the time. The irony is that “Taboo Tattoo” is the very kind of
anime that “One Punch Man” satirizes.
At this point I'm not certain if “Taboo Tattoo” is going to be a satire itself
or if it is going to become a straight forward magic fighting harem anime. So
I'm going to stick around for another episode to see which way the show goes,
and if Furukowa does more Saitama voices.
Dave Baranyi
Tank
Jul 6, 2016, 11:17:00 AM7/6/16
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On 5 Jul 2016 20:18:15 GMT, Dave Baranyi <anthony...@bell.net> wrote:
>At this point I'm not certain if “Taboo Tattoo” is going to be a satire itself
>or if it is going to become a straight forward magic fighting harem anime. So
>I'm going to stick around for another episode to see which way the show goes,
>and if Furukowa does more Saitama voices.
>
>Dave Baranyi
My bet is the latter, judging by the ED. I couldn't quite make out what the
>At this point I'm not certain if “Taboo Tattoo” is going to be a satire itself
>or if it is going to become a straight forward magic fighting harem anime. So
>I'm going to stick around for another episode to see which way the show goes,
>and if Furukowa does more Saitama voices.
>
>Dave Baranyi
show is trying to be from the first ep. but I'll also stick around for a few
more.
--Edwin E.
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