Maken-Ki! Two continues to spark the imagination in episode two

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It’s a good thing Xebec had the presence of mind to give us a mind blowing prequel OVA before kicking off this series, otherwise I’d be pretty worried.

This show really does look and feel like a non-nude fanservice series, and if the blu-ray are going to come even remotely close to the nude content we’ve been anticipating, it would require a dramatic number of aggressive redraws.

Normally I try not to predict redraws unless they are very obvious, but the suspiciously softcore nature of this series so far has me thinking we could see some drastic changes on blu-ray.

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For most nude ecchi series, combat nudity does not stop at the bra and panty level.  Usually we at least get a nipple sighting of some kind, if not total topless liberation.  But not in this series, as clothing is utterly destroyed, VAPORIZED, and yet undergarments have not a scratch.  Maybe I am being overly optimistic, but I expect this to change on blu-ray.

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Another such scene during Haruko’s battle in the gymnasium.

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Haruko gets into her birthday suit and washes Takeru’s back with her breasts.  Three really obvious shots here highlight where nipples will almost certainly be added:  A foreground object is used to censor the nudity, then a sideboob which moves around a lot, then an openly shown blank boob that would be a very easy change for a paste-on nipple.

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Apparently these girls wear clothes made out of tissue paper and bras and panties forged from plate steel.  This would be a great opportunity for a topless shot, should they opt to change it.  It’s a brief scene too, so changing this detail wouldn’t be overly cumbersome.

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Yet another nice little scene where Haruko goes topless, this time in an outright attempt at sex.  Unfortunately and quite predictably, she’s zapped back to her normal self and the fun quickly ends.  The 4th pic is extremely likely to expand the screen for nipples- a classic censorship technique used by many series in the past.

I also couldn’t help but notice that even panty shots are sometimes covered by foreground censorship, it’s not just boobs.  An example of that can be found in the fifth pick from this scene, where a Haruko butt shot is covered by a box.

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Nipples could be added here, just barely, should they choose to be very aggressive with the redrawing.  Even if they don’t, it’s quite nice.

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Extremely obvious redraw for nudity here when a topless Haruko switches back to tsundere mode.

Oh, and the episode itself?  Yet another villain of the week appears and early in the episode she steals both Haruko’s powers and her memory.  Actually, she leaves behind just one piece of Haruko’s memory, that being her overwhelming desire to be Takeru’s baby mama.  And so, for maybe 15 minutes or so, we get to enjoy a much sluttier version of Haruko and I was sad to see it end.

Pretty fun I guess, though to be honest I liked the original series more, it was just way more pervy in general and by extension, more fun.  This is still a good series with a lot of improvements over the first, and I expect the blu-rays to be amazing.  When the fifth blu-ray of this series hits stores this July and we’ve seen all there is to see, I suspect we’ll all agree in unison that Maken-Ki! Two is an improvement over it’s predecessor.  But in terms of “fun factor,” I had more fun with the original series broadcast – at least so far.

The way this series is going- I might be asking for too much- but I hope we get more than specials and a few changes on BD.  I hope we get some expanded/added scenes.  Too many ecchi scenes in this series feel overly short and in need of spicing up.

It’s a shame we have to wait so long to find out just how good this series will be.  It’s also a shame that this TV series is only slated for 10 episodes (myanimelist says it’s 10 episodes, and only five BD volumes are slated for release).