Review: Getsuyoubi no Tawawa
Short series come in all shapes and sizes and sometimes they just want to cater to a particular subset of fans alone, this can result in something like this. Getsuyoubi no Tawawa is a short series based on everyday occurrences and the love of large boobs. Surprisingly it works. Short series are hard to be disappointing because they are just that, short. A few minutes each week to lighten up your day.
An unnamed salaryman meets a schoolgirl on the train and they eventually begin chatting whilst he acts as a guard to stop any molesters or gropers reaching her. Through this they strike up a relationship of sorts which leads him to look forward to his commute on the Monday.
Ai is a sweet girl. She seems fairly innocent at first
but can be quite seductive. She knows exactly what she is doing and doesn’t shy
away from it or pretend otherwise. She is constantly putting perverse images in
his head as she tells him about her underwear, swimsuits or a friend grabbing
and fondling her before revealing it is a girl. It notches up a bit of jealousy
in him as it would.
Unnamed salaryman is your standard self-insert guy. A run
of the mill worker with nothing of note hence the self-insert part which is
fine, for a series this length it doesn’t need a complex character line-up and
the girls are the focus anyway. His co-worker Kouhai is another large breasted
girl who seems to quite like him, she gets drunk, jokes around and the like
though we see far less of her.
It doesn’t need to get more complex than that, this is a
short series so the content is light in nature and it works well. The episodes
here are episodic as you’d expect but do follow the same characters from
working in a café, school fitness tests, talking about going to the beach,
working late at the office and more.
It’s been done all before yes but here because of the way
it is presented it felt fresh to me. A lot of it is brought up in conversation on
the train Monday morning like regular people would. They discuss what happened
at the weekend or the past week since its natural, felt real and this
differentiated it for me.
I suppose you could say there is a bit of a creep factor
in that a fully grown adult seems to strike up a partnership with a school girl
and she gives him the button from her blouse when it pops off because her
breasts just keep growing. That and since we see this from his view you can see
his leering at her and his thoughts.
I personally found it kind of sweet though and a bit of
perverseness can never go wrong with me. He’s protecting her on a train
carriage where groping and the like can happen and she is grateful for that.
The relationship they strike up is sweet also, they learn about each other, she
tells him of her school activities, what she gets up to whilst also listening
to him talk about work and they offer each other advice. It gives him a release
of sorts from the mundane 9-5 workday (though since it’s Japan 9-5 is a bit
off).
Visually the show doesn’t really stand out. Animation is
about par for the course here with a nice focus on the physics of the girls
large breast as the bounce up and down and move in a way that is exquisite. The
camera angles focus on them by giving prominence and a lot of the time shot
from unnamed salarymans view which helps the self-insert angle work more.
The colour palette used here stood out to me as well,
it’s not really that vibrant as the colours used are a bit faded or washed out
which helped create the tedious lifestyle has come to expect but brightens up
when he sees Ai. The art also gives an obvious focus to the large and plump
breasts of the girls, I mean of course they would, it’s one of the shows focus.
It’s hard to fault this, it doesn’t set the world afire
but it does what it sets out to do. Have a nice enjoyable short series with an
emphasis on boobs which basically wake up the main guy from his unexciting
life. A short fun watch.
Studio: Pine Jam
Release: Autumn 2016
Length: 12 episodes
Availability: BD Set
7/10
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