Episode 8 – Mayonaka Punch

What do you name a gaggle of unbiased YouTubers who come collectively?

There is a lawsuit looming!

I am solely partly joking there. Over time YouTube/New media-centric conventions, fan meetups, and collaborations—I can hardly consider a set of YouTubers that hasn’t triggered not less than a minor scandal. So it is smart that MayoPan’s first foray into public appearances would go awry. The issue is, our women are solely inflicting 40% of the chaos this time round, with the remainder being attributable to their equally weird and unprofessional co-stars.

That is a enjoyable twist on expectations. However greater than something, I really like how this episode explores the loopy, wild, solely barely exaggerated world of YouTube celebrities. You could have people who find themselves mainly simply conventional TV personalities working on a unique platform, mixing it up with unprofessional idiots who present up late to steal the limelight, and all of the completely different ranges of reliability in between. TSUMA-shi is basically a expertise organizer and producer for the competition, however he’s solely gotten to that degree by being wildly well-liked—and you may attribute among the occasion’s disastrous vitality to his questionable group. The Outdoors Children have one mind cell, which results in whole confusion whether or not they’re on or off stage. What I really like most is the inclusion of weird however healthful gimmick makers like Plumb Flawed Logic—who charmed his manner into my coronary heart, solely to have it shattered when it was revealed he’d cheated on his spouse. It’s not day-after-day that you just Milkshake Duck by a cartoon character, however that can be a part of the lifetime of a YouTuber.

All of those new, appropriately obnoxious personalities present a strong basis for wacky jokes, but in addition a necessary balancing act towards our main women. The obvious joke to introduce the MayoPan crew to “common” YouTubers can be to distinction how these vampires conflict with common individuals, however what this episode accommodates is way funnier. Positive, MayoPan is a mixture of unstable personalities with a penchant for dysfunction that may be impolite, outrageous, and deeply embarrassing. The factor is, that describes 95% of the individuals who make a residing off of YouTubeso the kind of fights these women wreck matches everybody. If something, they placed on a comparatively respectable present, regardless of Fu distancing himself on stage and Ichiko not having the ability to learn. The bigger world of YouTubers is simply as loopy as our bat sisters, right down to the loopy followers who commit industrial sabotage over their favorites and get into fights in parking garages.

All of that provides as much as maybe the funniest episode of the present, or on the very least the one with essentially the most back-to-back nice jokes, but it surely’s on the verrrrrrry finish that we get a tiny wrinkle in all of the enjoyable. There are lots of methods to interpret Masaki’s “Huh?” as she watches Dwell bask within the applause. Possibly she’s feeling ignored, having missed the large second that can presumably ship MayoPan’s inventory hovering from right here on out. Possibly she’s out of the blue realized that Dwell is basically scorching and is shocked by her personal thirst. Personally, I believe she’s getting pangs of jealousy, that regardless of how a lot she’s satisfied herself she’s good at staying behind the digital camera, Masaki nonetheless desires to be in entrance of the viewers with the others. Both manner, it’s an intriguing hook that leads us completely into the ultimate third.

Judgement:

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