Ok, so I’ll put a short post here, but it isn’t worth reading unless you download the pamphlet. Go on. I’ll wait.

Akikan is terrible.

No, seriously. It takes quite possibly the stupidest idea for any media ever, combines it with bad dialogue, bad story, and really bad animation and drawing. This show is aggressively terrible in just about every way it is possible for a show to be. But oddly enough, that may well be its saving grace. Like G Gundam, it falls firmly into the category of So Bad it is Good. At least for now anyway. I’ve only seen two episodes at this point, so perhaps it will get bad enough to fall out of this category. As it stands now though, it’s a great show to download and watch with friends.

Anyway, on to the actual show. In all honesty, the pamphlet does a good job of covering everything important that happens in the first two episodes, if I do say so myself. There is really only one thing that I couldn’t think of a way to fit in there.

A challenger approaches!

We are meant to believe that this purple haired chick will be a rival for uhh… Mr. Main Character’s feelings (I honestly can’t remember his name at this point). The main character helped her during his dark past and she feels that she is indebted to him for that. Apparently she feels the way to repay that debt is by sleeping with him? Still, the opening kinda ruins any real suspense in the love triangle angle.

Hot can on chick action?!

Yeah. Thanks for killing all the suspense for us Akikan. Though, if she was in love with Mr. Main Character and slept with an Akikan, would that be cheating? THIS IS HARD HITTING STUFF HERE PEOPLE! You should probably all watch Akikan! because clearly it is going to tackle some hard issues.

Also, to anyone like me who considers themselves to be part of the layout business, Quark and InDesign are the same goddamn program. If you can use one of them, do not hesitate to say you can use the other one on a resume. Seriosuly, I spent 20 minutes putzing around in InDesign before starting the pamphlet and the only thing I couldn’t figure out on my own was how to do word wrap around images. And three seconds on the Internet fixed that. I have no idea why the people at Quark haven’t sued Adobe into oblivion over InDesign.