Uknighted Manganime Life is too short to watch bad anime

Between being an admin and an editor for THEM anime, I’ve been left rather shorthanded with time as far as watching anime and writing about it goes, especially in regard to my position here in Manganime. However, if there’s one tradition I will not shirk, then that would be the annual Christmas updates here.

In that spirit, I would like to introduce — not only yet another non-anime title — but not even an animated one this time around. It stars, amongst other people, the gentleman on the left, who should be well known to most people who are of the age 20 or above, back when the Muppet Show still made the rounds, even on Norwegian TV.

Yes, it’s The Muppet Christmas Carol, maybe one of the best know and certainly one of the oft adapted Christmas tales of all time.

Setting aside the fact that the ending to Magikano was an absolutely travesty, it was a pretty good series. But I’m not here to talk about it, am I? No, today we’re talking about Touka Gettan, a series that seems to me to be very similar to Fate/Stay Night, except that it confuses me more and has more sex involved. Hm.

Touka Gettan stars the eponymous Touka, a character so androgynous that I thought he was a girl until I was nearly done with the second episode. Speaking of which, I should probably summarize the first two episodes real quick, so that this post makes some sense. This is complicated somewhat by the fact that I really don’t know what happened in the first two episodes. Here’s what I remember of them, organized nicely into bullet points:

• Touka talks with his mom on the phone, possibly for the first time.
• Touka has some flower-sword-thing inside his torso. I think it was called the Crystal Sword.
• Some bizarre ceremony thing happens…
• But not before a massive food fight.
• Touka runs into some girl named Momoka and they kiss.
• Pretty much everyone seems to be someone else, only reincarnated.
• A bunch of people disappeared during the ceremony thing.

So um, yeah. On to the now. […]