Anime De Training currently airs on Crunchyroll with new episodes airing Mondays at 1:40pm EST until December 28th. Episode run-time is sporadic, with each episode running between two and seven minutes. Anime De Training, known in Japan as Ani Tore! EX, had a concept that on paper doesn't sound too bad. Each week, this first-person anime invites you into the home or gym of an aspiring young idol, as she teaches you basic exercises. And if it wasn't animated by a team of lazy PedoBears, it wouldn't have been a bad show. The show exists on a weird plane. It is educational. The exercises the girls teach you actually do work. I can thank the show for helping me drop a few vanity pounds thanks in part to the lessons. When compared to your basic, beginner's workout tape, it stacks up just fine, and even offers common-sense logic for avoiding injury. .... But the drawings are just creepy and sick. Now as of this writing, there are no episodes with the girls wearing less than beachwear, but that's hardly an argument when you consider that the camera goes right up their pants. And then there's the sound effects. None of the girls (ages 10-14) can just count to ten. Of course not. Instead they have to struggle through the numbers like this: Girl: Okay, ready? Here we go! One.... two.... three.... four.... five OW it's getting hard now.... six... seeeeveeeeennnn, eeeeight, almost there!! Niiiine, TEN AHH!!! *pant pant* wow... that was hard work... At NO point EVER should I EVER hear a kid that young make THOSE kind of sounds!!! EVER!! Making these scenes even worse are random shots of the girls trying to hold their clothes on, while Chibi versions of themselves tug and grab at their sides. We're also greeted with shots of the girls talking to the viewer less like a workout buddy as the show description would have you believe, and more like the significant other she's snuck into her bedroom while mom is out shopping. The later episodes seem to drive that image home. A HUGE contention I have also is that the girls are all borderline anorexic, and yet they pressure themselves and each other to get thinner and thinner. Do I have to say what's wrong with this scenario? Or are we all mature enough to figure that out by ourselves? The excuse is that the girls are all training to become entertainment idols, and they understand that singing idols need to maintain a certain "fit" image in order to remain popular, but since the concept of them becoming idols is mentioned so infrequently, it fails to stand up as an excuse at all, and is all but dropped as the show's main focus. Also disturbing are the girls' clothes. True, we've yet to see nudity, but the fabric they're masquerading as clothing leaves little to the imagination. I understand the girls have to be seen in gym clothes, but with how tight the pants are, and again, the camera angles, the animators have taken normal, everyday wear and made it the stuff of nightmares. The animation on most episodes is decent enough, but the dance episodes feature sloppy cuts between 2D computer-drawn animation to 3D CGI. If the transitions went more smoothly, or if the CGI was saved for the credits, I doubt it would have been noticeable, but the splicing is so jarring, it's cringe worthy, but it's not like I can expect better from a team of pedophiles. The show's educational value is just not enough to mask the flaws the writing team has dumped on us. Yes, it's a "short" show under ten minutes, but that's not even an excuse. Anime De Training is a show created by pedophiles in an effort to make women and young girls feel ashamed for not being under 90 lbs. The semi soft and "cute" drawings are not enough to mask this issue, and it seems highly unlikely a second season will make air. It's creepy and uncomfortable to watch, and leaves sane watchers feeling unclean. UPDATE: Crunchyroll has the scoop here. Officially, the exercises DO work.... and the only people getting fit by doing the training are male PedoBears on Twitter while showing off their new, scantly dressed bodies. If you think I'm kidding, click here. These guys are hiding their faces for a reason. |
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