I noticed that there are active threads about this in the General Animation and Entertainment Board but not here. Just a general place to discuss/review, recommend, and/or disavow any anime you've seen recently.
I binged the rest of Excel Saga last weekend and capped it off with Puni Puni Poemy. I think I may have lost my mind, but beyond that...Excel Saga, for the most part, still holds up. It's hard to make the same kind of argument for Puni Puni Poemy, as its goal is primarily to offend and satirize some of the seediest tropes of the anime industry. It also takes any sense of subtlety from Excel Saga (of which it hardly had to begin with) and throws it out the window. At the beginning of the second episode, for over a minute, I couldn't figure out if the audio track was in English or Japanese, because I could not make out what the hell the main character was screaming.
I binged the rest of Excel Saga last weekend and capped it off with Puni Puni Poemy. I think I may have lost my mind, but beyond that...Excel Saga, for the most part, still holds up. It's hard to make the same kind of argument for Puni Puni Poemy, as its goal is primarily to offend and satirize some of the seediest tropes of the anime industry. It also takes any sense of subtlety from Excel Saga (of which it hardly had to begin with) and throws it out the window. At the beginning of the second episode, for over a minute, I couldn't figure out if the audio track was in English or Japanese, because I could not make out what the hell the main character was screaming.