Nerima Daikon Brothers Vol 1
Nerima Daikon Brothers Vol 1 Speak Softly but Carry a Big Daikon! By Andromeda This strange comedy series is like a cross between the Musicals Grease and Rocky Horror Picture Show. It’s strange… but addictive. You can’t help but to watch. Every time you turn around they are breaking out in song over the strangest thing, like money, or champagne. You’ll never know what they are going to sing over next. The twist to this series though? All the sexual references, giving it its TV MA rating. Hideki, Ichiro and Mako want to make a big break into the music scene. But first they have to break out of the farming business. Their dream is to build a huge Concert Dome to perform at. Of course to do that you need money and money is not what they have. Not when little old ladies steal their daikon radishes because they spent all their money playing pachinko. With the help of some strange rental guy, they sing their way through battles to defeat evil-doers and steal their money. Unfortunately they always manage to lose the money. After bringing down a recording studio executive and stealing his money, they find themselves doing the right thing, returning the money to all those who paid to have their shot at stardom only to have their money stolen. In the second episode Hideki, Ichiro and Mako dress as vegetables to go defeat the pachinko owner. The Pachinko man seems to have a thing for Kim-Chee and takes Mako, who is dressed as a bokchoy, as his own while trying to pickle Hideki and Ichiro, who is dressed as a large cucumber. Thankfully their panda pal comes to rescue them. Of course how he does it is just too funny… by rubbing Ichiro’s cuke. Unfortunately in the end the old ladies come to the farm to get their money back and the army is called in because of the noise with orders to “Blow them bitches away!” I don’t know what was funnier, the strange songs or the many strange sexual references. Even though I found Nerima Daikon Brothers to be a silly series, my anime club didn’t like it at all and yanked it out of the DVD player as fast as they could after the first episode. Maybe I like it because I’m a fan of musicals and a bit of a pervert. Any fan of comedies in general will like it and find some of the tunes quite catchy, like the ending theme. DVD Extras: Clean Opening & Closing Animation, Nerima Daikon Brothers Music Video, Sing-Along with the Daikon Brothers, AD Vidnotes, Commentaries with Nabeshin & Haruka (Technician) and Nabeshin & Shigeru Matsuzaki (Hideki), and The Roots of NDB Insert. Licenser: ADV Studio: HIBARI Length: 100mins Retail (US): $29.98 Availability: 12.18.06
Nerima Daikon Brothers Vol 1 Speak Softly but Carry a Big Daikon! By Andromeda This strange comedy series is like a cross between the Musicals Grease and Rocky Horror Picture Show. It’s strange… but addictive. You can’t help but to watch. Every time you turn around they are breaking out in song over the strangest thing, like money, or champagne. You’ll never know what they are going to sing over next. The twist to this series though? All the sexual references, giving it its TV MA rating. Hideki, Ichiro and Mako want to make a big break into the music scene. But first they have to break out of the farming business. Their dream is to build a huge Concert Dome to perform at. Of course to do that you need money and money is not what they have. Not when little old ladies steal their daikon radishes because they spent all their money playing pachinko. With the help of some strange rental guy, they sing their way through battles to defeat evil-doers and steal their money. Unfortunately they always manage to lose the money. After bringing down a recording studio executive and stealing his money, they find themselves doing the right thing, returning the money to all those who paid to have their shot at stardom only to have their money stolen. In the second episode Hideki, Ichiro and Mako dress as vegetables to go defeat the pachinko owner. The Pachinko man seems to have a thing for Kim-Chee and takes Mako, who is dressed as a bokchoy, as his own while trying to pickle Hideki and Ichiro, who is dressed as a large cucumber. Thankfully their panda pal comes to rescue them. Of course how he does it is just too funny… by rubbing Ichiro’s cuke. Unfortunately in the end the old ladies come to the farm to get their money back and the army is called in because of the noise with orders to “Blow them bitches away!” I don’t know what was funnier, the strange songs or the many strange sexual references. Even though I found Nerima Daikon Brothers to be a silly series, my anime club didn’t like it at all and yanked it out of the DVD player as fast as they could after the first episode. Maybe I like it because I’m a fan of musicals and a bit of a pervert. Any fan of comedies in general will like it and find some of the tunes quite catchy, like the ending theme. DVD Extras: Clean Opening & Closing Animation, Nerima Daikon Brothers Music Video, Sing-Along with the Daikon Brothers, AD Vidnotes, Commentaries with Nabeshin & Haruka (Technician) and Nabeshin & Shigeru Matsuzaki (Hideki), and The Roots of NDB Insert. Licenser: ADV Studio: HIBARI Length: 100mins Retail (US): $29.98 Availability: 12.18.06