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Okina baibu no sha no shita de (Suzuoki Hirotaka x Horiuchi Kenyu, Narita Ken)
Errr. What is this? How should I describe it? What is the story? What is the point?
It's about a firm that makes toys for adults. Horiuchi-san plays a rookie "salary man", Suzuoki-san his superior. It's about vibrators. About 2000 of them. And light sabers. No, I mean real Light Sabers (TM), with a very good sound effect and all. You get the general idea. Right?
I'm guessing you have figured as much that this is a parody. Of something. And that's the problem: what is it a parody of? Of BL? Not really, because toys for adults might be one of the things you could use to make fun of BL, but it certainly isn't the only or most obvious one. Of the sex industry? No, then there isn't a single need to make this BL. Of the "salary man" mentality of Japan, under which workers never seem to doubt the morally good in working for and protecting their firm no matter how rediculous the means, the firm, or the product? I think that's the closest one, but ... errrr ...
Don't misunderstand me, I'm not saying this because I dislike toilet humour. I knew exactly what this CD was about before I began to listen to it, and I even made myself ready to laugh. I was looking forward to the toilet humour! But alas, although some parts had enough power to make me listen closely, it only made me chuckle a few times, never really laugh.
It reminds me of indipendent movies made by students at film schools. Like, what's it called, Gay Niggers From Outer Space. Movies like that. And it is, strictly spoken, an indipendent (dojin) product, but it doesn't really seem that way at all (neither the cast nor the editing is anything below professional standards), and maybe that's what's puzzling me. I might have laughed my head off if this had been presented to me in a small dark room at the farthest corner of the university building, and I had listened to it with a selected number of inside people. Hm.
The only BLCD on which I was glad there wasn't a free talk. It does deserve some credit, though, for trying something different. To say the least. And oh, for including a sound effect duely missed (solely by me) in BLCDs. You know. Wetness. Even if it's a joke.
Category: BLCDs | Posted by Alicia at October 2, 2004 09:40 PM