#KOKORO CONNECT EP 14 SERIES#

To cast the male lead as perpetually innocent, however, neither subverts nor defies expectations.

#KOKORO CONNECT EP 14 SERIES#

Intelligently executed, that would probably be an entertaining series too. I mean, if you want a psychosexual romp, then do a psychosexual romp. But when every male protagonist is pure and thereРІР‚в„ўs always one gay or bi female character ready to grope a classmate, it detracts from the anime. I donРІР‚в„ўt care if some guys are pure or that some girls are sexually forward. Since when did yuri-minded girls become such wanton sex predators? Oh, theyРІР‚в„ўre not? YouРІР‚в„ўre just using this portrayal for cheap thrills? Gee, I guess thatРІР‚в„ўs understandable. While the male protagonist is often way too pure, there is inevitably one (gay or bi) female seemingly brazen enough to suggest that fondling another female classmate in the middle of a classroom (and in broad daylight) is something that regularly occurs in the thought process. The scene between Taichi (in IoriРІР‚в„ўs body) and the bespectacled Fujishima really emphasizes the contrast in how the sexes are portrayed. IРІР‚в„ўm not asking for a hormone-driven, ass-groping alpha male, but if anyone suggests that Japanese high school boys are too innocent to refer to breasts for what they are, thatРІР‚в„ўs a joke.

I think male protagonists in anime seem weird because they do not act as real high school boys would. What bothers me about a lot of anime is how the main character is just too-fucking-pure as though he has never experienced puberty.Р”В«ut if Taichi borrows something like Big Jugged High School Girls, he should not be a РІР‚Сљtoo pure pure boi.РІР‚Сњ The common refrain in the real world is РІР‚СљYou need to get laid.РІР‚Сњ Perhaps for anime characters, it should be РІР‚СљYou need to go masturbate.РІР‚Сњ That might sound odd to some readers since IРІР‚в„ўve always railed against anime objectifying its female characters, but I think this is a separate issue. In so far as young guys watch porn (or any other form of pornography, for that matter), however, this is pretty much normal.

And is there anything wrong with that? IРІР‚в„ўm not going to debate the merits and demerits of porn itself in this post. Kokoro Connect already admits that Taichi watches porn. If there are any potential pitfalls for the series, however, one would be the penchant in anime in general to almost always cast a milquetoast nipponjin as the lead. But IРІР‚в„ўm getting too far ahead of myselfРІР‚В¦. We can then see if the anime has the balls to put forth an unexpected but not-at-all unrealistic unhappy ending. Rather, they should irreparably (though perhaps inadvertently) affect each otherРІР‚в„ўs lives by the sheer fact that Iori might not act as Aoki would. My hope is that when the characters inevitably swap bodies again, they donРІР‚в„ўt simply spectate. In that respect, Kokoro Connect has something potentially intriguing about it.

By some cosmic twist, however, weРІР‚в„ўve swapped bodies and must now experience and confront each otherРІР‚в„ўs personal problems and traumas. So imagine, then, that we all have skeletons in our closets that not even our closest friends know anything about. And maybe itРІР‚в„ўs just me, but something feels sinister about AokiРІР‚в„ўs scene. Iori, for instance, returns to a dark and empty home. I think the ending sequence is actually very well done in how it offers a glimpse of what may entail. This premise could go very wrong, but I believe that the show has a lot of potential, and this is not even just speculative potential. For anyone who still hasnРІР‚в„ўt heard about Kokoro Connect, it has us imagine what would happen if five friends suddenly experienced body-swapping. What gets me is that Taichi borrows porn from Aoki, but he canРІР‚в„ўt even refer to breasts as breasts.

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