It’s no April Fools. The most anticipated ecchi PV of 2016 is finally here.
First impressions:
Normally an anime PV would introduce us to the story or characters. But in the case of HxH, the PV introduces us to the service and censorship levels. Keep in mind that the pre-PV that released in February focused on the nip slip moments from the Light Novels, so today’s new PV is really just further confirmation that HxH aims to be a soft-porn anime.
What’s interesting about this is that typically even soft-porn ecchi shows tend to clean up their PV and try to look as mainstream as possible. You could be forgiven for thinking season one of Shinmai Maou no Testament was just another shonen action series based on the PVs that were put out.
Normally, even for the most ecchi of shows, the PV is usually a way of introducing people to the characters and giving a bit of a preview for the story and action. But in both the pre-PV from February and now the first official PV today, it’s abundantly clear that HxH is all about T ‘n A and wants everyone to know about it.
We can’t say for sure if HxH will be more brazen with ecchi content than Testament was, but we can say for sure that HxH’s PV was more brazen than Testament’s.
The art and character design seems to be a step up from Testament, though it will be hard to match the quality of Testament’s story.
Overall though I have to say this was a pretty exciting PV and delivered pretty much all I hoped. My only worry is that this anime might avoid openly shown nipples given how much the light novel depicted them shown through torn clothing… but my guess is that Production IMS takes a degree of liberty to keep us all from getting blue balls.
Masou Gakuen HxH airs during the Summer 2016 season.
