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Oh gosh, thank you to sandrylene and whatever other kind person gifted me with DW points! (Soooooo many icons I will put on here. *___* SO MANY! And I can do polls here now too! SUPER EXCITING.)

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So shati and I watched the first couple episodes of Mawaru Penguindrum together this summer, and ever since then, Shati has been periodically asking me whether she should catch up.

For the first few episodes, my answer was: "I don't know! There is a lot of stalking! But I'm still watching?"

For the five or six episodes after that, my answer was: "I don't know! There's a lot of attempted date rape and also someone made a frog spawn on somebody else's back and it was really disturbing! But I can't seem to stop watching . . .?"

For the five or six episodes after that, my answer was: "I don't know! There's a lot of child abuse! But I think it's actually going somewhere really interesting, and . . . I seem to have feelings . . . about everyone?"

And now the last episode has gone by, and all I can say is ;ajlsdk;fkjds;HOW IS MY HEART BREAKING FOR THIS SHOW I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW I LIKED UNTIL HALFWAY THROUGH.

So: Mawaru Penguin Drum! It's about a girl who is dying, and her brothers who are sort of obsessed with her, and the magical penguins that come to save the day, except it isn't, actually, at all.

( Picspam under the cut! )

. . . . this is the most incoherent write-up of a show ever. I blame Ikuhara. But, yes! If you're easily triggered: BEWARE, because this show hits just about every trigger you can name, from attempted date rape to incest to severe child abuse. But if you're not, and you like Ikuhara's style, and you're interested in stories about families and damaged kids trying to figure out how to save themselves . . . then, yeah. It's worth it.

(PS: If you are like 'but it's an Ikuhara show! Where are the lesbians?' then -- well, there are not as many lesbians as in Utena, but . . . Yuri's name is not irrelevant. Nor is the ending song with Himari in. AND THAT'S ALL I'M GONNA SAY.)