Genshiken 2, Episode 5- Boys Gone Wild

A disclaimer, the following post contains screencaps from a yaoi parody episode. Yes, that means there is a screenshot of two men kissing, if that offends you (and if you are an anime fan and reading this blog it really shouldn’t) do not read ahead. With that aside, this episode is made of win, as Oguie’s fujyoshi tendencies explode into hilarity.

This deliciousness of an episode starts off with Madarame and Sasahara in the club room discussing the senior year job search. Madarame is in a cheap, off-the-rack suit and is fretting over what to include in the hobby section of his resume. He wonders if lolita, forehead-fetishist, or tsunderes are appropriate hobbies to include, and unfortunately they aren’t because I am a tsundere hobbyist. His suit is complimented by a necktie that Tanaka made for him, and he invites Sasahara to pull on his necktie. He obliges as Oguie walks in, and her yaoi wheels start turning and won’t stop until the end of the episode. After the two guys leave the clubhouse her creative imagination starts up, first off deciding that Madarame must be the submissive one (uke) and we transition into her imagination world. In addition to the upcoming personality changes from the real world, the art style changes significantly, making them all “prettier” would be the term I could best describe it as. In the imagination scene Sasahara takes on the dominant role (seme) and pulls hard on Madarame’s necktie in an exaggerated version of what actually happened.

Her imagination then transitions to their early history, including how they met and Sasahara joining Genshiken. After their meeting, Sasahara says he was struck by the thunderbolt of love. Eventually she moves them to Madarame’s house which here is spacious and luxurious looking (in comparison to his actual small hole of an apartment) where Sasahara asks him if he likes to be owned by someone he loves, grabs him forcefully, and kisses him. Oguie’s wild imagination is interrupted by the arrival of Kugayama and Kuchiki, the latter greeting her with an excited “nyoro~n!” After some idle conversation about the job search the good stuff starts up again. This time she imagines hookups between Madarame and Kuchiki (who is a naive submissive type to Madarame) and Kugayama (who is now a hard-bodied muscle man who is Madarame’s seme). However, Oguie decides neither of these pairings is very good and asserts that Sasahara is the best fit for Madarame.

She returns to MadaramexSasahara and decides that Sasahara needs to be more forceful, switching to a scene at a fountain where Sasahara asserts himself in an even more dominant fashion. Back in the real world, Oguie sees Oguie and Tanaka together and decides to see if she can fit them into her fantasies. In the yaoi world, Sasahara finds Madarame in bed with a slimmed down and taller Tanaka and becomes extremely distraught. Tanaka claims that he is only engaged to Ohno as a camouflage for his real love of Madarame’s man meat. As Oguie is drawing these scenes, Kasukabe walks into the clubroom and surprises her, spotting her drawings of Sasahara and misinterpreting it completely, assuming she’s attracted to Sasahara. She gets the idea to try and slyly get Sasahara and Oguie to spend time alone together, as Oguie tries to tell her that she has the wrong impression. However, she can’t bring herself to tell Kasukabe that what she is drawing is BL, so she continues back in the clubroom, trying to get Sasahara to be Oguie’s vendor at Comi-Fes.

Back to Oguie’s head, she attempts to insert Kasukabe and Kousaka, making the latter end up rejecting the distraught Sasahara because he has lost his pride. Instead Kousaka goes to Kasukabe and has a hot makeout session to satisfy him. Later, emo Sasahara is walking in the rain at night when he wanders in front of an oncoming truck. Madarame arrives in the nick of time to push him out of the way and save his life. They go back to Madarame’s place for some lovin, where for the first time Madarame starts to take the lead in their man sex. However, Sasahara remembers his cajones and reasserts his dominance, accompanied by lots of moaning. The next day in the real world, Oguie decides to show Kasukabe her drawings in order to set the record straight. However, she misinterprets it again, figuring that since she drew both Madaramae and Sasahara that she likes them both.

Next Episode:

The next episode looks to be about Oguie’s attempted clandestine trip to Comi-Fes and looks to be another good one. Man, this show is like Doujin Work sometimes, but without you know, being terrible.

Impressions:

First off I apologize if I got any of the terms wrong. I have had little to zero exposure to the yaoi community or shows, and so I just relied on DB’s explanation and use of terms, which seemed right to me. Despite being relatively unfamiliar with the content being parodied, this was a hilarious episode that took all of the characters and put them through an exaggerated yaoi filter. I think anyone, regardless of experience, can appreciate the episode on its face. I have always liked well done episodes of any type of show where the characters are put in a totally different world, maybe it’s due to all of those holodeck episodes on the many many episodes of the various Star Trek series I’ve seen. The characters here went through massive transformations, highlighted by Madarame who turns into a massively submissive man who lives in an elegant, wine-filled apartment. The other most noticeable transformations were in the appearances of most of the characters. Turning the shy and fat Kugayama into a muscle-clad seme who pours champagne over a kneeling Madarame was so over the top that I couldn’t stop laughing.

The non-imagined portions of the episode had their moments, although they were nowhere near as funny as the rest of the episode. However, I will first point out that I also wish I could put tsundere as a hobby on my resume, the MTL in front of my posting name was not invented by Impz without reason. In fact, right now I am finishing up my resume to start applying for my summer job. It is a silly system for law students that we have to apply so early, and I already know a couple of law review types that already have jobs lined up from big firms in Manhattan, damn them. Moving on to the rest of the side stuff, first off any “nyoro~n” insertions are welcome, as who doesn’t love Tsuruya-san? The other main real world scenes involved Kasukabe misinterpreting Oguie’s drawings, which I only found mildly amusing. The best parts of this episode were definitely conjured from Oguie’s mind.