Excuse me. GIRL on photos.
I’m glad that as fixing my site’s server has progressed and is supposedly in its final stages, with only some customers experiencing intermittent slowness, it has become more and more unusable to the point where just uploading the screenshots, a normally 45 second activity, alone took over 15 minutes. Welp, opening yet another ticket and attempting to re-re-escalate then.
Impressions:
…Yep, this is definitely a show that needed to exist. What if you took a tourism advertisment, and pasted an anime girl on top of it. Then added about five minutes of her making silly faces to give a reason as to why she’s doing an advertisement for whatever place it is. I feel like even if you’re into Rick Steves or travelouges in general, isn’t that they’re actually going to the places, and interacting with the people there the whole point? All of this is so artificial and superficial. It’s the same cutesy anime girl reactions they do to riding the train, or going to school, or seeing a particularly shiny rock.
So come for the anime girl making faces. Stay for the anime girl making faces pasted onto photos of actual places. Which is a shortcut that has been used since time immemorial anyway and people used to actual document because it was neat, once upon a time. Or just did it for fun, like when Punie was dancing over all the Japanese government and cultural buildings in flames for that show’s OP. Now that’s actual tourism. The lesson here being probably that you can get kickbacks from the tourism departments if you make the advertising overt enough. Way to monetize sheer laziness. Lord knows you didn’t need it to write a script or animate this either.
