Sorry Chiho, you’re shamefully underused this week.

The arrival of a new neighbor ushers in new conflicts and divisions in the seventh episode of Maou-sama. Having been invited by their landlord, Kamazuki Suzuno moves in next to Maou and the others. Meanwhile, Emi gets a gift from Ente Isla in the form of a vitamin drink that actually replenishes her magical power. After everyone runs into each other at Maou’s apartment, Emi quickly deduces that Suzuno is also after Maou’s affection. Eme then catches her up with proceedings back in Ente Isla where people may be trying to pursue Emi all the way to Japan. This turns out to be the case as Emi is attacked that night, though she is able to survive with the help of a convenience store worker. Finally, Chiho and Maou make a shocking discovery in the bento provided by Suzuno to Maou.

Yes, read the directions on these things, kids.

This was actually a quite peculiar episode. All of the actual action and story related elements were happening around Emi. She has the story of what’s going on back home, she has means to get her magic power back and she’s the one being attacked. At the same time, there’s this little vein in this episode of unexpected people facing new challenges, and that’s where I’m going to start with this episode analysis.

Ooh, a rival appears.

It’s really covered in two different parts, but I believe it is an attempt to affirm the value of those who work at service-level jobs. Maou has fully embraced his elevation to shift manager and it’s just around this time that he has his first major test. A new KFC SFC branch has opened near them and they may be challenged for customers. Fortunately, he has the full backing of his boss Kisaki, who will leave him to handle the duties during what may be a challenging time for their store.

The hero of this story doesn’t have a name.

More fascinating was the convenience store scene. The cashier suddenly finds himself involved in a fight between two magic users who are wielding a sword and a large scythe between them. Did he simply hide and call the police? No, he called the police then went to help one of the store’s regular customers in the best way he could. Then he also convinced Emi to stay behind for the police to interview. He followed store procedure and also did something rather heroic for someone in such a small role.

Urushihara learns a skill.

The contrast to this is poor Urushihara. He’s just a NEET, and is treated with something close to contempt by everyone else in this series. I really don’t know what to make of the message that sends to the viewers. Maybe it’s an attempt to push those unemployed viewers into working low end jobs and trying to make it seem like there’s opportunity even if it’s really hard at the start.

This is a declaration of war.

Finally, it looks like Suzuno’s entry has turned this show into a full-fledged harem series. Now I have to judge it like that, which means I may have to hold it to a higher standard than I was before. Suzuno is the new entry to the relationship, and she is already making her move by playing a sort of traditional wife’s role. The kimono is the obvious indicator there. That leaves Emi on the back foot as she now has to act like she’s trying to protect 2 girls from Maou instead of one. Eme has her nailed as acting like she wants to spend more time with Maou. As for Chiho, her role was much reduced this week to comedy. Brutally shaking Maou as he unveiled his bento despite knowing what was coming. These 3 have to come together in the same place pretty soon I think.

Wage slave chucking oranges>Magic user with scythe.

As for the story aspect of what happened in this episode. Seeing Emi being attacked and a new person going after the Ente Isla survivors is something I really didn’t care about. I think this series shines when it does extraordinary things with the mundane. Extraordinary people doing extraordinary things is this series equivalent of turning an action movie’s final act into robots hitting each other. It’s entertaining, but incredibly shallow.

Currently Airing Top 5

Those are some big plots there.

Photo Kano

Taking skeevy pictures of your childhood friend;
It seems you’ve started a trend.
This show has attracted directorial talent
Despite the theme being anything but gallant.

It’s so…big.

Suisei no Gargantia

Using a futuristic mecha as a grill,
Doesn’t fulfill the need for thrill.
Gargantia’s stereotypes of the worst type,
Leave plenty of with which to gripe.

Nothing odd about this scene.

Haiyore! Nyaruko-san W

Taking character relationships to a new level,
That Kuuko can seem like a cute red devil.
As the situation causes Nyaruko to become uncorked,
There is no shortage of characters to be forked.

“I’m going for you next”, Ashiya didn’t say.

Hataraku Maou-sama

An episode that by intention was slow,
My monitor I was tempted to throw.
Introducing another cute foreign girl,
Is but an attempt to give the plot a whirl.

Being a shop owner is a noble job.

Muromi-san

Otohime just wants the quiet life,
But Muromi keeps twisting that knife.
An episode that beats Space Brothers in astronomy,
Also has the victim of a brutal underwater economy.

The Rest of the Week

Who says this show isn’t classy?

Oregairu

Misunderstandings are merely anime’s basis,
To maintain character stasis.
Despite the praise that comes its way,
I can only find Oregairu okay.

The logical reaction to being a character on this show.

Oreimo.

There are as many people in an amusement park,
who can also see this show has jumped the shark.
Incest isn’t so much as avoided here,
Because the staff won’t make it disappear.

Yukari as a child in a bath towel? Yukari as a child in a bath towel.

Yuyushiki

Viewers feel like kings,
Watching girls doing cute things.
Yuzu and Yukari confessing their love,
Captures that feeling above.

This season’s hit yandere character.

Aiura

When seeing a body lying on the street,
Avoid touching it with your feet.
Among this cute trio there is a killer,
Because that scene was merely filler.

They derped the designs here, how?

Hayate no Gotoku! Cuties

The Hinagiku episode Manglobe has managed to choke,
Because in its own mind this company is broke.
For the Maria episode this does not bode well,
Since that will put the fans in a padded cell.

A rare moment of emotion from Origami.

Date A Live

For a hot springs episode this was poor,
Even with Origami playing the role of voyeur.
The new spirit girl joins up next week;
Needed since the plot was turning bleak.

Updated Spring Average Ranking

Catching Up

Silly spirits.

Haitai Nanafa

Okinawan girls and spirits in short format,
Renders a story as nothing but a doormat.
The quality of the plot is not quite treason,
Yet it performed well enough for a 2nd season.

Terribad

She can cry through her glasses. Unbelievable Jeff!

Saishuu Shiken Kujira

I wrote on this series back in 2009,
And its Key material it tried to mine.
Crazy ideas this series does not duck,
So in turns into a giant clusterfuck.

The horror, the horror…

Maou, Ashiya, Chiho and Emi go on a late-night adventure at Chiho’s school in a quest to solve a school mystery in the 6th episode of Maou-sama. With a conspiracy raging in Ente Isla, Maou celebrates his promotion to shift supervisor at work with some restaurant fare with Ashiya. However, his money is quickly being evaporated by his new roommate Urushihara (Lucifer). In continuing their quest for more magic, Ashiya and Maou head to a high school where Chiho happens to be a student. Emi joins them in an attempt to stop them from regaining their magic, but eventually they find that the whole thing was just a ruse.

New girl? Check.

This was about the type of episode I was expecting last week. There’s only two moments in this episode that pertain to the long term plot. Those would be the discussion of killing Emilia back in Ente Isla, and the appearance of the woman at that discussion at the door of Maou’s apartment. So as much as the landlord’s disgusting photo and Maou’s promotion to shift supervisor may seem like plot events, they’re really irrelevant. I think this qualifies as your standard mid-season non-event episode.

Well done Hero.

So the question I have to ask on the back of that is how good was this episode? Basically in the brief time after watching this episode, I’m quickly forgetting many of the details of this episode. I think come the end of the season this episode won’t matter at all. I don’t think there was any character development in this episode either. So if you are marathoning this episode from home, you can skip this episode.

Warning: Shipping in Progress

Now as for the stuff I did find interesting in this episode, there was the re-introduction of Urushuhara now as a NEET, and a pretty lazy stereotype as well in using those around him for personal gain. However, he did help in that bit of phone hacking, but where did Maou get the money to pay for that? Chiho’s friend at high school is into shipping men she’s never met. The burger restaurant’s jalapeno fries sound like an interesting idea. You get the idea, these are all minor points, but that’s what stick in my mind. Next week has to do better with the new girl.

Since it’s Cinco de Mayo, may as well throw in Mexico’s greatest anime character.

Yet another week has passed in the world of animation from Japan, as well as real time of course. It’s safe to say that we are now firmly entrenched in the middle of the season. Typically, I find that this isn’t a very interesting part of the season. Usually, the really terrible shows have been weeded out by now. Those that do fail in the end will be known about 5-7 weeks from now. So what we are left with is a bunch of shows trying to make things interesting. So how did they do this week?

Currently Airing Top 5

That would be called rain. It’s similar to taking a shower.

Gargantia

For the first time since I could remember, an episode of an anime in which Urobuchi Gen was involved did not feature anything misogynistic in nature. So what we were left with was actually exactly what I was expecting from this type of series. A pilot who is used to war having to adapt to peaceful scenery and trying to find his place in new surroundings. This episode conveyed that idea in the best way possible. Red was shown slowly adapting to the language of the natives as best as he could, but at other times he was pretty much useless to the rest of the Gargantia residents. Also, his moment of sadness when he remembered someone who showed him how to make those flutes was actually really well executed. On the downside, since Urobuchi is involved I expect manly deaths and slow drawn out deaths/rape of women now.

Lucifer makes the best faces.

Hataraku Maou-sama

Best episode to date.

Oreimo.

It’s starting to become fairly obvious that the quality of an episode of this franchise is directly proportional to the amount of Kuroneko. The first half of this episode was fairly dumb stuff. Kirino needing to convince some model scout that she has a boyfriend so she can go away, so she chooses Kyousuke to fill the role is about the level of story you would expect from this massive franchise. When it gets to the part where Kuroneko has to sell some doujinshi at the Summer Comiket does this episode get interesting. Here, it becomes a group of friends with a similar interest who happen to be selling some books for profit. The fact that this part of the episode is most entertaining and features Kirino in as minimal a role as possible is not coincidence. Only at the end where some guy comes in and appears to be her real boyfriend does this episode come off the rails.

The switch has been flipped to insane.

Yuyushiki

This week wasn’t as great as last week for the 3 girls looking up stuff on the internet. I think it started to fall back into the 4-koma that it was adapted into this week. I think the only real moment where it broke out of that this week was when Yuzu was trying to convince Yoriko (the one students have taken to calling “Mom”) that she doesn’t really have a mother. As much as Yui struggling to stay awake may be entertaining, I just didn’t find the secondary characters who became part of that story very interesting at all.

Saki is an outstanding bartender.

Oregairu

I’m just not buying Hachiman as a main character. It was as though he was written as the most self-insert fan-fiction character at times. He’s perfect when it comes to solving problems, but he rejects women like he thinks he’s some sort of bad-ass. I think that’s the major problem with this show, it has to make the other characters who have a relationship with him one-dimensional in order to not look silly. I mean, what is the point of Yoshino now? She’s part of a rich family, but can’t relate to people and is generally useless as a result. Maybe that’s the point; to make Hachiman look good. The more interesting characters are the single-episode characters related to the problem in each episode. So a girl working as a bartender to pay tuition is more interesting than the people trying to figure out what she is doing at night.

The Rest of the Week

Exactly what I was thinking too.

Haiyore! Nyaruko-san W

This was a Tamao episode for as entertaining as Shanta’s RPG quest was. I think that was actually the problem. She’s just on the periphery and never even attempts to follow her feelings. It’s frustrating enough when a harem lead does that, and this is a harem comedy after all, but to spend so much time on a minor character doing the same thing is just filling time. She should just give up on Mahiro and go with Takehiko. They’re paired together in the OP for a reason.

I may not be an expert, but trying to pick up a girl by the breasts seems like poor form.

Photo Kano

This was the episode that was supposed to create some sort of depth in the relationship between Kazuya and Haruka. Instead it just feels kind of petty. Kazuya acts like the typical harem lead lacking in confidence when everyone starts trashing him in secret. Then he acts like a real man in the last third of the episode until the silliness that is the scene of him screaming in the rain. What is this, some sort of 80s teen angst drama? I’d almost wish this was going omnibus format with an ending of this story being this episode, but it’s not going to happen. The other girls will just take pity on him, and unlike say School Days, there will be no pity sex.

Another “Because Origami” moment in Date A Live.

Date A Live

Sure the Yoshino story was resolved in this episode, but the episode was completely unremarkable in nearly every aspect. Origami continues to be the scene stealer in each episode in my opinion. The completely head-over-heels while maintaining no emotional expression at all is an example of what some may call gap moé. The big revelation this week was that Shido had some spirit power in him which explains the being able to heal after being shot thing, but this week’s resolution showed that it kills any sort of dramatic tension now.

This is a teacher. That’s the joke.

Aiura

There’s a teacher that can pass as a student. This is supposed to be cute. It’s really just over the top dumb. Why can’t they just fully animate the crab story they have in the opening animation. That would work a lot better.

They can do good visual jokes every once in a while.

Hayate Cuties!

How could the Sakuya episode be so dull? Why do they keep riding Fumi like she is the main character? Was this really a Chiharu episode in disguise? I don’t know about any of those questions. All the matters is next week’s Hinagiku episode. It’s the make-or-break episode for this 4th season. However, I’d imagine that almost everyone with an interest in Hayate has already given up on Manglobe. It’s still possible for it not to suck.

Fuji shakes those things.

Muromi-san

There’s the name gag that the girl with comically oversized breasts is named Fuji. Other than that it was a typical Muromi episode in that it tried to make the same joke over and over. This week is was Muromi repeatedly punching Fuji in the breasts. To quote a character from Kuragehime, fat does not work like that. The only other highlight I would take from this episode was the cicada yelling. The talking animals have been one of the best features of this series, and it continued in this week’s episode.

Updated Spring Season Average Ranking

Terribad

This girl in the middle (name doesn’t matter) ponders the great question of our time.

Baby Princess 2D Paradise 0 [Love]

This week is a rare example of a terribad anime that I would have actually voted for in the Anime Power Rankings legitimately. That’s more of an indictment on the lower portions of the top 5 than a statement of the quality of this particular anime.

So what is Baby Princess? It’s an adaptation of a light novel which centers around a high school boy moving in with his new step-sisters. All 19 of them. You read that right, nineteen. They are all one year apart, and it’s surprising that the mother hasn’t featured in one of those freakshow TLC reality shows, but I digress.

Now you’re probably thinking that there’s all the potential for this to be a typical skeevy OVA. There’s a little of that, and thankfully it is limited just to the older sisters. Also, it lacks the parts of Sister Princess that makes you hate a world that allows that sort of thing to exist.

As for the plot of this episode, it’s pretty much an onsen episode. Yotarou, the lead of this piece, just documents it with his camera, saves a couple of the girls from going over the poorly positioned waterfall, then ends up re-enacting The Hunt for Red October in the family hot spring.

While I wouldn’t recommend this to anyone who is trying to watch good anime, I can only give it the faint praise of, “it isn’t as bad as the premise indicates.” That won’t go on a poster anywhere.

Time of First Female Nudity: 2 frames at 15 minutes, 41 seconds otherwise lots of strategically placed obstacles
Rating: 61.2

Corrections: This post originally stated that there was no nudity in Baby Princess, this has been changed to correct the error.

Emi combines armor and formal business attire well here.

The 5th episode of Maou-sama saw some unusual alliances form as Emi, Ashiya and Maou combine to save the city from Lucifer’s reign of terror. The episode immediately began with the confrontation at the end of the last episode, and Maou deduced that Orba Meier from the Holy Church on Ente Isla was working with Lucifer. A battle then progressed throughout the city before Maou teleported to a location with many people around. He appeared to be mortally wounded, but the despair of the people around him brought his powers back. The final battle occurred as Chiho watched and afterwards Maou returned the city to its previous unharmed state before returning to work in his quest to win Employee of the Month.

No caption could do this justice.

Prior to watching this episode, I was caught in two minds about where this series had gone wrong. Either it could have stuck to the social commentary angle of how life is hard for outsiders without any sort of social support or it could continue on the angle of great people who were no longer great. In the aftermath of this episode, they’ve gone in another direction. Maou wants to stay on Earth, but the situation in Ente Isla will dictate that he has to return to save humanity from itself.

Orba Meier showing off the Earth version of God Mode.

It’s going to take most of the series to get to that point, so instead there’s going to be plenty of filler. Expect lots of Maou and Emi pretending not to get on while Chiho shows herself to be more of a force to be reckoned with than expected. Lucifer will also take on the henchman role as well. At the same time, expect some mentions of how bad life is getting on Ente Isla as the Holy Church continues to be corrupt without Maou around.

This is going to hurt.

Now, for the episode itself, I thought it was quite an entertaining watch. I think it finally captured Maou’s determination to stay on Earth. That all it took was for some people to give him a place to live, a job and a high school girl madly in love with him is pretty remarkable for being rather unremarkable. I mean think about it. He simply has basic needs met; a roof over his head, a place that allows him to earn money and feeds him, plus people who love him. Maou’s definitely more human than we thought.

You probably shouldn’t tell the girl who always thinks of you that you can make her forget about you.

Then there’s Emi’s role in this episode. It’s rather interesting that she now continues to hang around since Maou is pretty much okay living on Earth. Maybe it has to do with how easily someone from the Holy Church was able to work with evil for his own personal gain. I’d like to think it actually has to do with life on Earth. Modern Japan is peaceful, she has people who care for her because she’s Emi and not the Hero, Emilia and there’s nothing like the internal politics of Ente Isla for her to get stuck in. Her mission was to kill Maou and return to a peaceful world back home, but instead she found her peaceful world included Maou.

Since the last installment of this particular feature, the following has happened to all of the shows I had been watching:

• Oregairu – since picked back up after I dropped it on episode 1, see I can change.
• Space Brothers – Dropped after the 3 consecutive recap episodes reminded me of how badly this series has been edited.
• Devil Survivor 2, Attack on Titan, Aku no Hana all dropped for being too boring in my opinion

I sometimes worry about stuff like this, probably too often. I find a series boring, it then becomes popular. Or the reverse, I like a show so much early only to have it go in a terrible direction. It feels like I cannot win sometimes. It just becomes a problem having my finger so far off the pulse of what the rest of this community is watching  that I just kill conversation, or get left out entirely. Perhaps I intentionally isolate myself when it comes to the series I watch. Yet it just feels like I’m insulting people by responding “oh, I dropped that” when a show comes up in conversation.

Anyway, that’s obviously not of much concern to you my readers, you want my thoughts on the shows that I’m still watching instead, so here you go.

Currently Airing Top 5

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Yuyushiki

The series that may turn out to be the best of the season from my standpoint is Yuyushiki. It succeeds by keeping it very simple. It’s a group of girls with outstanding chemistry between them. None of the three is one dimensional. Case in point, the one who seems the dumbest of the three, Yuzuko, is actually the one with the best grades and does her homework. Yui seems the most responsible of the group, but never in the overbearing way that it could go. Ultimately, this ends up being the rare series in this genre where the cast is more than the sum of its parts. I’d even go as far as to say that this is off to a better start than even K-On. Why didn’t I choose to blog this episodically?

Closer to Hideyoshi than I thought.

Oregairu

I put this episode up here because it led me to the most discussion of any character I’ve had on Twitter this season. That would be the tennis club member Saika. Now this conversation involved debating whether he was more like Yukimura from Haganai or Hideyoshi from Bakatest, which I’d have to say is more like the latter. Apart from that, I’d have to say that Oregairu has somehow made a decent start despite lacking any characters who are relatable to. Even this week’s story about Hayato trying to make his classmates friends fell apart at the end when everyone rushed in to join his group.

Emi falls down stairs.

Hataraku Maou-sama

Mahiro holds on to this story’s MacGuffin.

Haiyore! Nyaruko-san W

For once, an episode acknowledged just how dumb a plot arc was. This whole story was simply about messing with the idea of how to tell a story. So there was a lengthy conversation in this episode on which part of the previous episode was really foreshadowing what happened in this one. Then there was the notebook in which the evil monkey that was conjured up was invincible because it was written like it came from a grade schooler. Nyaruko is just so self-aware that it can get away with going for a meta story like that.

This isn’t awkward at all.

Date A Live

Date A Live isn’t so much a harem show as it is a test of will. This is one of the better looking shows this season, and all of that effort goes toward Shidou getting into various misunderstandings with Tohka and Origami being a creepy stalker. The new spirit by the way happens to be fairly interesting in using a hand puppet to talk, and she seems rather timid in a not wanting to hurt people sort of way. Plus, I think this episode did a good job of not doing the typical harem thing of having girls who had been “conquered” just go away for a while. He has a relationship with Tohka now, and he can’t just ignore her.

The Rest of the Week

That’s just wrong on so many levels.

Aiura

The other girls doing nothing show this season is one of those 2 minute short series, so I’m not going to spend too much time on it apart from noting the obsession with crabs and Steve Jobs in the opening animation. Really, this episode wasn’t so bad as it just focused on names after their teacher gives a quiz asking for them to write her name. Kanaka’s answer is so left field it earns her special recognition, but then it was back to the normal nickname stuff from the first couple of episodes.

That’s the last thing Fumi was expecting when she opened that.

Hayate no Gotoku! Cuties

This week was the Athena episode, which is something of a problem if you had watched only the anime. She’s Hayate’s first girlfriend from 10 years ago, but that’s never really played up for much. Rather she’s just another ojou-sama character. I fully expect Hayate fans to tell me I’m wrong there. Anyway, this was really a chase themed episode as Hayate and the others try to track down the money that Fumi’s dog Armageddon that Sakuya had originally given Wataru in cash. It’s horribly contrived throughout, but as a comedy that’s acceptable. Unfortunately, it really wasn’t that funny at all.

Gen? Really?

Gargantia

I’ve started playing this little game with anything written Urobuchi. When the first incident of something sexist happens in an episode, I cease to to care. After episode 2′s 20 minute spell, this week went 8 minutes. It isn’t that I decided to stop watching, it was more that I didn’t really think the episode was trying to make me sympathize with the self-insert pirate leader over the people of the Gargantia. Going forward, that’s going to be the major issue. It’s going for moral ambiguity when it comes to Red and his actions, but I feel more for the people who don’t have a massively superior technological edge.

This girl named Rina carries 6 4 large round objects.

Photo Kano

There’s just something about this show that keeps me watching. I know it’s absolute pants, but it tries its best at trying to be good in its own mind. I think that moment really hit when our protagonist, Kazuya, was inexplicably allowed to photograph all the girls in the gym doing sexy stretches. How the hell does that happen? There’s no contrivance involved in it, the scene just sort of happens. I suppose the one interesting thought I got out of this week’s episode was the whole idea of leverage. Kazuya keeps going to the well against the willing student council president. Now Kazuya is in debt to that gymnastics girl. I don’t use their names at all because it’s not as though this series cares at all.

Why am I in such a stupid scene?

Oreimo.

Here is a case of running out of ideas. This week just felt like they producers had run out of ideas, so let’s just go entirely to pandering. It also did that thing where it attempts to do the same joke repeatedly until it’s funny. In this case it was Kirino spotting Kyousuke with Ria in compromising situations in almost every scene. Plus, let’s not forget that it also had the longest 100m race in history. Next week looks even worse with Kirino now asking Kyousuke to be her boyfriend. I’m sure it’s some sort of act, but it’s just silly how the other main characters have been shoved out of the way.

There is nothing strange about mermaids in this world.

Muromi-san

I liked this show initially, but the way that it has handled introducing new characters in the last 2 episodes has been really poor. I can’t be the only one who thinks that it lingered far too long on the Harpy attacking Muromi. I think it could have gotten away with the terrible memory joke once, but it kept coming and coming and coming over and over again. I hope this series doesn’t become the latest example of the consequences of following a show entirely because of the vocal cast, but it’s not looking good.

Spring Average Seasonal Ranking

For those curious about how those first 3 weeks of my votes went, it was like this:

• Week 14: Maou-sama, Senyuu, Little Busters!, Oreimo., Titan
• Week 15: Gargantia, Maou-sama, Nyaruko, Hayate, Date A Live
• Week 16: Gargantia, Maou-sama, Yuyushiki, Nyaruko, Hayate

With the way these series are trending, I wouldn’t expect the top 2 to stay in those overall positions by the end of May. Of course, this is all subjective and my taste sucks, etc.

Terribad

This may be a spoiler for this, but there is in fact no ending.

Roots Search

This was one of the early ones from the group that I just happened to miss the first time around. So what would be the best way to describe Roots Search? Probably as a space horror along the lines of Event Horizon (although never anywhere near as nightmare-inducing as that cult classic) but ultimately deciding not to go anywhere with the story in the end.

The central relationship in this story is between Moira, a female crew member, and Buzz, the pilot of a ship that brought along an unexpected passenger. The rest of the crew proceeds to be killed off because the alien projects their inner desires before blowing them up. This continues for about 30 minutes as they ponder existence among other things. Eventually, it gets silly when Moira, after witnessing her lover Scott die horribly, quickly falls in love with Buzz amid an idealized future in her mind. So they blow the ship up, accepting certain death and when it does they wake up in an entirely different world. And that’s it. It ends with no explanation at all.

For a terribad movie, this had plenty of ambition. Plus, for something from 1986, the idea was rather different from the norm. With a running time of just 40 minutes, it actually doesn’t feel like 40 years, but still that ending either means they ran out of budget and/or ideas.

Time of First Female Nudity: 21 minutes, 58 seconds (though it’s a dead body)
Rating: 46