ImoCho’s second episode came out a couple days ago with no shortage of intent to grab the attention of pervs like me. We get more upper body censorship, once again totally opaque and immune to contrast/gamma/coloration tweaking.
What’s interesting to me is that in this same episode we see quite a lot of openly shown blank boobs. That either exposes the censorship as false positive bullshit, or the girls sometimes have nipples and then at other times magically don’t have them (which is known to happen sometimes, as silly as it sounds).
A third possibility exists, though it is an odd one. Shows like OniAi and Nakaimo used blank boobs as an opportunity for easy nipple redraws on BD. Those shows did not mix reconstructive nudity with harsh TV series upper body censorship though. So this is curious.
If this series does decide to give us nipples, episode two could be a real winner (the following images were taken from Sankaku Complex out of convenience).
Easy nipple add here.
Obvious, incredibly easy opportunity for redraw.
This shot gave me a dose of optimism. If all the censorship before was false positive bullshit, then why pass on a golden chance for fake censorship on perfectly posed shots like these?
Nothing to see under the microscope. Meticulous, opaque censorship doesn’t always guarantee nipples, but it’s a good sign more often than not. I still kind of think this show is catfishing us in all probability, but there are some small reasons for optimism that add up.
Lots of potential in this bath scene.
I haven’t confirmed this, but someone in the comments mentioned that a live action adaptation of ImoCho is slated to have nudity, which if true would certainly bode well for the anime.
March 26th. Calender date circled.
