Unable to be seen by or communicate with his exclusively-female neighbours (aside from a ghost cat that acts as both helper and sounding board), and left with only the most rudimentary ability to manipulate his environment, our job as players is to find ways of “tricking” the neighbours into helping get our fellow’s spirit back into his body. It’s also silly and ridiculous enough that it inspires much humour and parody.īut before we get to the fanservicey stuff Punch Line tells the story of a boy who has had his spirit forced out of his body by another, and he’s left to haunt his old apartment building. We could have a week-long discussion pulling apart the implications of this fetishisation, but think what you will of it, it’s there. If someone mentions “anime fan service” than your mind will generally jump to one of a couple of things for “nicer” anime it means bikinis and beach scenes (in which case the focus is more on the boobs), or for the “seedier” edge it means short skirts and breezes or other mishaps that give you a good eyeful of what’s underneath. Now, I’ve never actually seen the Punch Line anime (and actually didn’t even know it existed), so I went into this game fresh, and came out of it with a healthy respect for just how clever it all is under that ridiculous tagline.Īcross the entertainment industry, anime is well known for perpetuating what can only be called a fetish for women’s underwear. “See panties twice, cause the apocalypse.” It’s like a perverse flip of that old tagline from the TV series, Heroes: “save the cheerleader, save the world.” More importantly, if there is a more out there tagline for an anime property, I’ve never heard it.
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