Who knew that such a renowned meme among the anime community would come from a manga where one man urinated in another mans butt? Moreover who knew that that meme would lead to that manga getting a PG13rated anime adaptation nearly 40 years later? Well thats just the reality were living in so accept it already. Ive accepted it even though I was disgusted by the original Kuso Miso Technique manga when I first read it in 2021. I mean if Alice no 100Cc was going to gross me out why would anyone think Id be any more okay with reading Kuso Miso Technique? Nevertheless Kuso Miso Technique has achieved meme status for its facial expressions and the quote ? Yaranaika? or Shall we do it? in English and on April Fools Day of 2023 an anime adaptation called Shin Yaranaika was announced releasing exactly a year later. One additional year after that I have watched Shin Yaranaika and will now review it. I mean its March 31st where I am at the time of writing this review but I mean its April 1st elsewhere in the world Shin Yaranaika also known as the Junichi Yamakawa Collection begins when Masaki Michishita an ordinary student at a prepatory school runs to a public park in search of a restroom. There he locks eyes with a man sitting on a bench. The man Takakazu Abe proceeds to zip down his jumpsuit reveal his privates and ask Masaki Shall we do it? Thus they go to the mens restroom together and....well I dont think I need to explain how the rest of the Kuso Miso Technique section of this OVA goes. I say the Kuso Miso Technique section because there is actually more to the story beyond here with those elements being based on other oneshot manga drawn by Junichi Yamakawa. Well I dont know how closely the OVA follows those oneshots and honestly I dont really want to know but it does all come together into one insane ride Since Shin Yaranaika isnt an adultsonly story like its manga counterpart you arent going to see any explicit sex or buttwetting I said what I said those moments are censored with more pleasant images although you can still hear the main characters dialogue over those images. One of these images references the Nice Boat meme which really hammers in the fact that this anime is little more than a meme that shouldnt be taken too seriously. Of course those scenes being censored isnt much of a surprise but what did surprise me was how the anime developed its two main characters. We actually get a short scene of Masakis prep school life at the beginning of the OVA which was a weird but sort of amusing scene but I digress and Takakazu has a backstory that is shown in the story and even sort of comes into play later on. Their relationship to each other is expanded a little bit beyond what is shown in the original manga too and while whether or not their relationship is actually believable is debatable it does seem to me like they actually care about each other more than the original manga did anyway. Having previously watched Maki Itous World Before You End I knew that the animation in Shin Yaranaika was going to be trash before even watching the trailer. Unfortunately I was proven correct although in this case it actually kind of fits in a weird way. Even though I cant in good faith rate the anime higher than I am because of the animation I can easily see the poor animation in this OVA being a meme in and of itself especially the 3D animation. As for the sound....well its not too bad. The voice acting is okay with Maki Itous voice actually being a very good fit for Takakazu. The music is very stupidsounding but its a very good fit for such a ridiculous anime. There isnt really much I can really say when it comes to how I feel about Shin Yaranaika but I can at least say that it was never boring and that it was a more worthwhile experience than the manga it came from. I do feel like its best to watch it if youve already read Kuso Miso Technique since you might appreciate the ridiculousness of it all better that way but those with a good amount of familiarity with Japanese meme culture could probably also enjoy it. Just remember to not take this anime too seriously since it is after all a meme.
69 /100
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