I got an email from Amazon.com about some fuckin’ Strike Witches DVD

Posted On January 6, 2010

I have this old hotmail account that’s basically good for nothing anymore except for MSN and getting spammy emails from sites like Amazon or whatever. Now I usually delete these emails from Amazon without even opening them, but today I got one with the curious word “anime” in the title, so I decided it was at least worth a look.

Upon opening the email, what else should grace my near-sighted eyes but the delicious, delicate, pre-teen ass of Miyafuji Yoshika, being hugged tightly by her brilliant blue school swimsuit. I was flabbergasted!

Don’t get me wrong, I was well aware that Strike Witches had been licensed for US release, but the fact that such a bold licensing decision had finally come to fruition in some form blew my mind. And the form in which it arrived in was mind blowing as well! One would think that when it comes to a show that is somewhat controversial amongst the majority of anime fans who all have a giant rod up their ass, one wouldn’t draw attention to the catalyst of said controversy.

But there it is, Miyafuji’s glorious ass, right in my face. I wanna press my nose against it, and sniff it.

But wait, to make things even more catastrophic, this DVD has a trailer. Now, even if you look at that cover, it’s just Miyafuji in a swimsuit. It’s almost normal for her to lack a skirt, or pants. So the pant-less angle may not exactly strike the more naive DVD shopper, but it certainly will upon a viewing of this trailer which is all about these girls not wearing any fuckin’ pants at all!!

In retrospect though, I can’t say I’m surprised. When I actually look at FUNimation’s  DVD releases, they are pretty classy. That is, about as a classy as a U-15 DVD shop in the depths of Akiba. So I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. But I was. So there. Real dragons have curves.

The real question is, will I buy it? It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that US anime DVDs are utter shit these days, and FUNimation is ahead of the pack as far as shitty shittiness goes. The cheap pricetag is tempting, but I’m really not a fan of badly compressed video and English titles grafted clumsily over the original Japanese ones. I may just end up buying it to hold me over until I get the R2 release.

And now here’s a picture of Luccini’s butt that I found in my Strike Witches folder. It’s by Shimada Fumikane, the guy who started all this madness.