![]() #Sakura nova fan service seriesConveniently this leads to Luluco and the Space Patrol visiting planets that are each full-blown references to Studio Trigger series - first Kill la Kill, then Little Witch Academia, and finally the recent short Sex and Violence with Machspeed. The third season finds Luluco in search of the original Ogikubo, which her space-pirate mother stole from Earth. Luluco must deal with her own burgeoning adolescent transformation, her dysfunctional family, her alien crush Alpha Omega Nova, and frenemy Midori all while lamenting that she wishes for an ordinary life.ĭivided into “seasons” of three episodes, Luluco first deals with her own coming-of-age, followed by her parents’ squabbles. Yet, from its opening episode, Luluco was a surprisingly keen look at female adolescence, picking up where Eri Ninamori and FLCL‘s third episode left off. The entire reason given for Luluco‘s existence is that the studio wanted to commemorate their fifth birthday. Space Patrol Luluco is a five-year anniversary project celebrating Studio Trigger, which denotes that it’s a self-congratulatory series from the start. Unfortunately, recent episodes of Space Patrol Luluco have unfolded in a similar, lazy fashion, concerned more with nods to Studio Trigger’s admittedly small catalogue over the last five years. Being characters from Haruhi Suzumiya becomes a background, where the rest of the series simply revels in these characters that a Haruhi fan finds dear and rarely rises above that. In fairness, the arc in question also riffs on Haruhi, but does so with dramatic tension for the characters involved that moves beyond the fact that they were in Haruhi Suzumiya, and connects with the very human worries of identity and death. The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-chan is a fairly strong example of this.Īside from one small emotional arc, Yuki-chan is a series of recreated scenes from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya and The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya. Although this shot depicts the world of the beloved short, it’s actually from Trigger’s most recent short series, Space Patrol Luluco.įanservice rooted in referential material is admittedly low-hanging fruit. In order to elevate a self-referential series beyond its fanservice for a pre-existing fanbase, it has to have some other intriguing or resonant narrative present otherwise the series becomes a hollow shell of what made the original property it’s referencing so successful. However, the screenshot pictured above is not from Little Witch Academia. I am one of these fans, and constantly lament the fact that we’ll likely never see a full-length Little Witch Academia series. #Sakura nova fan service fullA Studio Trigger favorite despite the fact that its not had its own full series, Little Witch Academia is near and dear to the hearts of its cult fanbase. ![]() It exploded in popularity, spawning a wildly-successful kickstarter for a second short - Little Witch Academia 2: the Enchanted Parade. ![]() Pictured above is the world of Little Witch Academia, the now-famous Yoh Yoshinari short film that was initially part of the Anime Mirai project in 2013. While there is some of this in Space Patrol Luluco, the series services their fan in a different way, one that threatens to overwhelm the titular Luluco’s emotional narrative. Gravity-defiant breasts, barely-covered women - and men, in the case of Kill la Kill - often in suggestive poses or highly-convenient settings makes up what is typically referred to as “fanservice.” ![]() Hiroyuki Imaishi’s Studio Trigger are no strangers to fanservice - their first major title, Kill la Kill, revolved around the traditional type of fanservice that immediately comes to mind upon hearing the word. ![]()
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