"Majikoi ~ Oh! Samurai Girls!" (Anime)

[pkristen]

Summary: (From The Anime Network website)
"It’s one thing to honor your ancestors and keep old traditions alive, but there IS such a thing as taking it to a ridiculous extreme. In Kawakami City, having a samurai ancestor and enormous ‘fighting spirit’ isn’t just an interesting fact, it’s a huge part of how you end up being ranked on the social totem pole. That, in turn, rolls over into the school curriculum. Fortunately, that’s something the local kids like Yamato Naoe have learned to deal with by forming into small ‘bands,’ (that’s the samurai type, NOT music.) However, while the delicate sexual balance of Yamato’s group seemed fine when there were three girls and four boys, the sudden addition of two MORE girls starts to send everything spinning out of control! Seven’s a band of samurai and nine is a riot as boys, girls and naked blades all come together in MAJIKOI ~ OH! SAMURAI GIRLS!"

Review:
It didn't help that I started watching this series already knowing it was going to put me in a bad mood. Despite having all the teasing elements of women/women action, it had far more elements of being a harem-fantasy, jerk-off fest for straight boys with blatant obsession with female and male body parts.

Yes, technically there is a lesbian couple in this series. But even before getting there, when the lead woman in the harem is explained as having interest in girls because she just doesn't have a guy who is her equal, I definitely wanted to stop watching and do other things. But my 'completist' nature forced me to continue to the end otherwise I didn't feel like I had a right to rant.

As another measure of how much this series left a bad taste in my mouth: I was so turned off by this entertainment for straight boys that I went and watched the UK version of "Queer As Folk".