Otakuism

I love Potemayo. It was the best show to come out of the summer season. It flawlessly mixes cute moeblobs, really weird characters, and slapstick comedy. Every minute fills me with such ecstatic giddiness and indescribable happiness; I’m cutegasming every second. But, that’s the problem.

I have no idea what to write about Potemayo, at all.

In retrospect, this is a plight of most comedy anime I’ve watched. Muteki Kanban Musume, Negima!?, ARIA, Manabi, Hayate, Ouran, Sayonara Zetsubou-Sensei (SUBS?!), etc. When it comes to anime heavily focused on humor I’m just at a loss of what to say. Obviously I enjoy them very much, but it’s tedious just to rewrite all the jokes and I don’t want to do many “OH GOD THIS SHOW IS AWESOME” posts.

A lot of this goes back to the nature of comedy; something is always funny when you see it but can be very different when you’re told the joke later. The only problem with my current way of blogging is that I feel it limits getting the word out about how great these shows are. I mean, does anyone talk about Muteki Kanban Musume, even though it was the best physical comedy in many years? Not really, and that’s kind of the problem. Any other bloggers encountered this same problem and found ways to counter it?

Example of Potemayo’s genius.