Erin watches Mawaru Penguindrum, part 1 (episodes 1-7)

The bad Utena video got me to take another shot at watching Mawaru Penguindrum, Ikuhara’s first series after a long post-SKU hiatus. Chasing each episode with the watchalong from the Imagine Me And Utena podcast.

The hosts are watching mostly-unspoiled, so there’s a lot of “wow, we have no idea where this is going either,” but they’ll dissect moments that I didn’t think that hard about, or go over cultural background I didn’t know. Which is cool and helpful.

At one point I figured I’d start watching the show once all the IMAU episodes were out? But they stopped cold after episode 17 (of 24), and that was 9 months ago. No idea if that was just Life Happening, or if the show did something so dramatic and off-putting they couldn’t keep watching.

Guess I’ll find out!

Writing this post as of episode 7. No spoilers, please — if I’m going to suffer, sit back and let me suffer.

(Screencap: this show winning an Oscar. /rimshot)

 

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