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Summary: Attack of the toilet paper people...
Review: I wanted to give this volume a five star rating. Many of my fellow animers claimed this is the best in the series, but I disagree. The villians area lame and the storyline goes nowhere. Had it not been for a slight up in character development, a fantastic appearence by Forte, and cute anime girls, this series would not be worth watching, much less buying. Anyway, the Akamtsu team confronts the Super Human Federation, a group that has been using psychic powers to torture our heros. Meanwhile, some mush goes on between Shou and Kaede. The leader of the Super Humans turns out to be a bloated unthreatening otaku named Dr. Mamon. Mamon uses a combination of linker gel and Kaede's "dowsing" abilities to transform into Brahamn: a ten-foot-tall bladder that looks like a headless mummy made out of used toilet tissue (I'm not kidding about this). Meanwhile, Betterman and his allies do seemingly hopeless battle against this stupid-looking, wavy entity that pops out of nowhere. Oh yeah, and we get to see Hinoki in her infamous demon costume. Besides her, Yakasugi's cameos, and Forte's apperence in the last episode, "Life", this volume is pointless. Shou and Kaede are not well-used, and as usual, the show suffers from their uninteresting, senseless dialog. Asami's anilitical yacking doesn't help things either. One interesting scene in the first episode features Sakura confronting a mirror image of herself created by the Super Human Federation. What's sad is the false Sakura is more interesting and gets more characterization in five minutes than the real Sakura gets the whole show. This serves as a brief look at what this anime and its characters could have been. If you can suffer through the mucked up plot and cheap villians in this volume, it might be worth your time to see the show's few redeming qualities. But don't count on it.
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