Corn Woman 🌽 @WomanCorn@schelling.pt
We've done Minecraft servers as our summer project before, and our goals get harder and more esoteric.
1.12: defeat ender dragon
1.15: build castle with awesome sorting system
1.17: get the secret achievement _How Did We Get Here?_ (Have every status effect simultaneously.)
(The mob farm and sorting system are variants selected for their early game automation possibility, of course.)
So, the kids and I have started a summer Minecraft server.
And I think our play style has changed a bit.
Because we've built a mob farm and a sorting system, but not a house. None of us have armor or swords.
We haven't gone to the nether yet, but we're already automating.
The plot, such as it is, is weak.
I mean, with five minutes and a show about sexy armor, I can see <a windy day gives us an excuse to draw panty shots> as an episode plotline.
But the only gag they have is Kautz passes out from blood loss after getting a nosebleed.
Also, for a show that claims to be ecchi, they do a bad job of it. One mildly sexy pinup shot per episode isn't worth the investment. (And remember, the episodes are only 5 minutes.)
People regularly make the joke of them spending the entire budget on one scene, but I can believe it here, with large parts of Season 2 looking like a visual novel, except for the big fight at the end.
The payoff is not worth it.
So, that's the show.
What's my takeaway?
It's probably not worth it.
Season one is okay, playing its premise basically straight. The OAVs and Season 2 just lean on meta to prop up their lack of execution and it doesn't really help.
there's also _Armor Shop: The Movie_ which plays as a B plot to the main show throughout season two.
Flearika is sucked into a movie and has to chase her lost remote across movie genres.
I won't go into any more detail.
Mamori it too damaged to survive. But it is revealed that she was created in the future and sent back in time to save them.
They vow to see her again in the future.
The end.
Mamori evolves into her final battle form. Taking control of the opening, she and Lilietta literally fling the credits at the villain until her spell breaks and the world is restored.
Narden determines this was never his real master, but was Mr. Wholesome all along.
Kautz uses the sexy ray to turn everyone back into an adult again. Flearika evolves for an arbitrary reason. They spend all the animation budget for the season on a battle. They break the fourth wall to acknowledge it.
Mamori puts herself in the way to save the others.
Narden's old master returns, but she's dressed as a nun. And not even a sexy nun. She has abandoned sexiness.
She steals Mamori and uses her time manipulation power. Everyone is de-aged to childhood.
It's now _Armor Shop For Boys And Girls_.
The animation quality drops so low that they break the fourth wall to lampshade it.
Lilietta is trying to figure out what Mamori does.
A rash of wholesomeness consumes the town. The team runs around with a ray that turns ordinary armor sexy.
Mokuku's Professional Cutie work is similar to a YouTube creator, It seems.
Mokuku's crowd funding saves the armor shop and they move into a giant new building. Except that was a lie.
A new armor shipment reminds Mamori of her past.
Flearika accidentally drinks a magic potion and changes form over and over. (Chunibyo Flearika is the funniest one.)
Lilietta accidentally puts on some cursed armor, because it's been 20 episodes and we haven't had a dominatrix joke yet. Gotta fix that.
A windy day gives Kautz a lot to think about. (By which I mean panty shots.)
Mina, a dangerous wizard comes by.
Celas, an Elf and Rune Fencer comes visiting. He's going to help Kautz improve his defense against sexy armor. By crossdressing.
Season two opens, like so:
While adventuring for reagents, a mysterious talking armor falls from the sky. After calling everyone in the store a pervert, she makes her home on Lilietta's head.
They name her Mamori.
A copy of the shop opens up and outcompetes them!
Clearly the appropriate response is to challenge the owner to an idol contest.
Singing the OP doesn't really work, because it isn't sung. Or maybe that's good?
Their enemy fades away with vague words of wisdom.
Things get even less explainable when the gang investigate a giant anime store that has opened in town, get sucked into a featureless room, cosplay, and fight a man with a cube for a head.
I think this is a reference I don't get.
Kautz does wear the boomerang panties though.
