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Sunday, April 12, 2015

Erika Toda: "Yonimo Kimyona Monogatari" 2014 Fall special recap

 Think this also translates over to "Miracle World", have 3 DVDs of these specials from 2006 and 2008, that's the English title that's used on them.


 Will make this a quickie recap as there were five 'mini movies' in this special and they all only ran a bit over 20 minutes. Plus this aired last October but surprisingly just got subbed a few weeks ago, was a chore trying to find a raw oft his nut finally succeeded, it's getting harder to find TV movies/specials like this these days.
 This series started back in 1990 and usually two of these TV movies air in a year, one on the Spring and Fall as it draws respectable ratings so they keep bringing it back, as a matter of fact think the Spring 2015 special just aired. There's five movies but have only watched Erika's so far but will watch at least one more but unsure if I'll be posting about it but then again it features Mikako who for some strange reason I've never done a post about here, not even for her fine "Deka Wanko" drama.


 This is Erika's second appearance in this series, her previous time was the 2008 Spring special and there are two posts for that here. To be totally honest that 2008 segment she appeared in blew this one away, the older one I'd rate a 10/10, perhaps her best performance ever while this one would rate a 7.5/10, wasn't her fault but the segment was kind of boring with not too much suspense and at times a bit confusing.
 Because of that low rating will male this short but still if you're an Erika fan then it is a must watch as she looks fabulous as always plus for 2014 the only things she appeared in were two TV movies. Her character is named Atsuko who is planning on getting married to her boyfriend Takuya, no clue on what they do for work or really we learn very little about their lives. The marriage has been put on hold because Atsuko has been very wary about getting the operation that will enable her to 'fanamo'!



 Fanamo is what was strange, confusing and boring as it's a process in which humans no longer go to the bathroom but instead their body makes some sort of compound called fanamo. It somehow comes put of their pocket in something that looks like a small black tube, if it sounds a bit inane then you're right because it was. The reason for doing this was to clean up the world as now over 40% of humanity as had this operation, now the world is much cleaner as most of the garbage that going to the bathroom made is no longer around.
 With that no longer around most of the dirty animals in the world who lived off garbage and human waste are slowly dying away making the all the cities of the world much cleaner and inhabitable. Atsuko had such a hard time making up her mind whether to have the operation or not, her family has already changed to famano along with her boyfriend who said they couldn't get married until she had the change over to famano. Took her a while to decide but eventually Atsuko agreed to the operation which was quite short and painless, as a matter of fact shortly after the procedure she 'laid' her first famano in the operating room which shocked the whole staff.



 But the operation Atsuko had wasn't a famano one but it changed her to a 'funnis' which was a different way of excreting her bodily waste, it was supposed to smell like the flower.
 And so ended the mini movie, like I said at first tit was an okay watch but kind of boring, most of these segments have some good suspense and usually more than most TV movies. However there was none of that in this segment which was kind of a disappointment, worth a watch but don't go in expecting much. Actually skimming through a few of the other mini movies they all looked better than this one but like I mentioned Erika was only in two TV movies last year so it was good to finally see her in something. And she looked utterly magnificent but as you may know doesn't she always look that way to me. Here's a few more screenshots plus the post after this one has a huge amount of more screenshots from this movie.











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