Kyou no Asuka Show

Kyou no Asuka Show is, in its entirety, a metaphor for a woman: You're drawn in by a pretty face and a panty shot, but you stay for the downtempo meditations on life and society. Or maybe you just stay for more panties. Either way, you're sure to be entertained, even if you stop listening after a while. Kyou no Asuka Show is about a girl named Asuka Kyou No... Show. Wait. Kyou no Asuka Girl is about a show named, wait, hold on. Kyoukai Senjou No H- no, no, one more time. Today's Asuka Show stars Asuka, a stunningly beautiful girl with absolutely no commonsense. Asuka goes through her totally normal life doing nothing interesting whatsoever besides occasionally getting hit on. The end. Unfortunately for Asuka, any brief summary of her show makes it sound like either a boring waste of time or mindless wank fodder. Fortunately for you, curious reader, the show is neither of those, instead being an easy going slice-of-life with an easy-on-the-eyes lead female. There is fanservice, for sure, but only three or four episodes have it as the main focus. Of course, these episodes are all at the beginning, which ends up giving prospective viewers (and whoever wrote the synopsis) the wrong idea. Later episodes feature mostly comedy segments starring Asuka and her dad, or solo episodes that feature Asuka making silent observations and stumbling onto some surprisingly profound conclusions like a hot girl Buddha. While these revelations won't change your life, they'll at least make you nod your head. Much of the more serious, think-y aspects of the show are hard to notice if you're just staring at Asuka's hotness. There's a lot of unspoken subtext which warrants either one careful viewing or a second watch, a small order considering the short runtime. I don't personally feel that the short length of the series hurts or harms it. After all, every show ends eventually (except Bleach), and a quality story remains quality regardless of how long it takes to tell. That said, you might look at the run time as a benefit if you're not sure about watching the whole thing. It's not hard to devote 30 minutes to a show if you would normally watch an episode of something else in that time. You could also blow through an episode or two whenever you have a few minutes to kill. However you decide to watch it, at least give it more than the standard three episode test, else you'll think the show is just about Asuka deepthroating ice-cream. Even with no time for the characters to develop, everyone in Kyou no Asuka Show is presented as a fully fledged, self-aware human being. Asuka seems comically oblivious at times, but her quiet ponderings reveal that she's just so caught up in her fascination with the rest of the world that she forgets about her own presence within it. A space case on the outside, an introverted people watcher on the inside. Asuka's dad has realistic concerns for his daughter as she begins to mature into a woman, concerns which are compounded by his job in an industry that he desperately wants to keep Asuka from. Even the dude at the bus stop is a well-rounded, engaging person. He acts like any average guy would if he saw a cute girl with gum stuck to her butt. Do I say something at the risk of letting her know I was staring at her? If I try to pull it off, could I cop a quick feel and still get out alive? Is there any way I can use this situation to strike up a conversation later? What does it say about this girl that she sat on gum who-knows-how-long ago and still hasn't noticed? These are all questions that any reasonable man would ask in that situation, and bus stop dude implicitly asks them all. Kudos to the writer for taking such simple, fluffy interactions and wringing real humanity out from them. If you like boobs and thinking, maybe even both at the same time, then you'll find something to like in Kyou no Asuka Show.

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