What’s goofy is steam so blinding it’s a wonder that anime girls can even take a shower in the first place. You’d think they’d want to turn that down a little for a BD release but, nope…
Anime
Heavy Object is airing the second cour on TV this season and the first cour is coming out on Blu-ray. Two BD volumes and counting have been released to date. The good news is a clean OP and ED and 1080p. The bad news is that not much was changed from the TV show, especially the shower scene in episode 01.
So this a mini fanservice review of Heavy Object BD Volume 1. Just the highlights, not a full review. Mainly focusing on new clean video and new review techniques since the original TV fanservice reviews. And all in 1080p! .
Eye Catches
Not new but had to capture the eye catches in 1080p while watching. Cute and sexy and all…
OP
What’s new is a clean OP & ED. Finally.
A clean version of Ohoho dancing in the OP is so nice. Almost like she’s strip dancing. Too bad we probably won’t see more like this in the future…
I could watch “Titans Tits” in motion all day. Is that perpetual motion???
Milinda’s shades (visor) might be new to the BD.
Been wanting to make this stitch for a while. Had to wait for a clean OP. Turned out better than expected. This is where I knew that Heavy Object was going to cater to the “male gaze”. Check out the video to see what I mean.
Ohoho almost strip dancing in 1080p! What’s not to like???
Froleytia FTW! Axist calls her “Royal Blue”. I can see why. Still one of the better “male gaze” scenes in Heavy Object. Now clean and in 1080p!
ED
Just a few clean snapshots from the ED because they decided to go artsy instead of sexy. Milinda sure is cute though…
Episode 01
The infamous shower scene. So sad that they didn’t at least remove the steam for the BD release. Nudity would have been better but to leave the steam unabated seems odd. Fortunately, we can filter through the steam to find … bare boobs.
First some snapshots showing before and after filtering of the three cuts of the shower scene. That’s a lot of steam to leave on the BDs…
And the payoff of the filtering is to make 1080p stitches (and videos) of the shower scene. Should have been more like this in the first place, especially on BD…
Oh but what a nice ass Milinda has…
Another new technique is making WebMs from frames which makes it possible to create videos of filtered shower scenes. Enjoy. I know that I did.
Episode 02
Nothing new here except that I had missed one minor ass shot of Milinda in my TV fanservice review.
Episode 03
Had to make a new WebM from frames of Froleytia’s (aka Titan Tits) perpetual motion machine. So that I could get the all important reverse motion part of perpetual motion…
Might as well add some of the frames used to create the WebM to this review. 😉
Is there a kimono big enough to cover up Froleytia’s bouncing breasts??? Sure hope not.
Official Art
Some nice and sexy promo posters since Heavy Object first cour ended. Plus some LN art.
Fan Art
Fan edits of promo posters are always fun. Just wish I could find a higher res version. Plus some original fan art including the shower scene from episode 01. There does seem to be more and more fan sort of Heavy Object.
Overall
My mini-review turned out to be not so small after all. Sorry about that.
Not much to say. By now we know what we are getting. A goofy military SF show that once in a while caters to the “male gaze”. Fun stuff, especially if you like the main anime girls. But we also knew we probably wouldn’t be getting nudity on the BDs and we didn’t. But they didn’t even reduce the steam which was a surprise. JC Staff seems to think Heavy Object has gone mainstream on us even if it’s too goofy to be a mainstream show. I still think the best chance of nudity is in an OVA. Heavy Object is goofy enough to do something like that. But then again, it’s JC staff so who knows…
Notes
There have been no TV fanservice reviews of the second cour of Heavy Object yet partly due to lack of fanservice but also in large part due to poor video quality of the early raws. Unfortunately both Ohys and Leopard are using the same TV station and the video quality problems seem to start there. I’m waiting for a new raw of the episode with the worst video quality.
I wanted to make a few mini-stitches of Ohoho’s dance in the OP but the Object in the background shifts every single frame so no dice. 🙁
All of my 1080p HD image stitches from BD volume 01 were included.
All of my HD WebM videos were included. But for downloading, you find them in an album here.
The original HD image used to make the cover image can be found here. It’s also in the Official Art section of the article.