PUNCH LINE Is The Weird-Ass New Anime You Gotta Watch

It's been a relatively tame year in terms of new releases of anime this year. You got your Harems, your comedies, action, and slice of lifes but with the exception of the orgasm food fest that is Food Wars! (which I don't consider a must watch) there haven't been a lot of strange new shows, save one. Punch Line (as it's name would suggest) feels like one big joke, and it is very funny, it's also pretty damn good in other areas as well.

Mind you, the second episode of the new series (which is streaming on Crunchyroll) doesn't air until 2 ET today, so all the things I'm about to tell you happened in just the first twenty minutes of this off the wall series.

• A bus is hijacked
• People are shot
• Girl on motorcycle busts through front window of runaway bus
• Beats bad guys senseless with a giant bendy straw
• Boy on bus sees girls panties through skirt
• Boy gains superpowers.

I'll stop there because that's basically the premise of this show. Yūta Iridatsu is a boy who acquires super powers when he sees women in their underwear, but at a great risk. That is, if Yuta sees another girl in her underwear while he is already super powered, blood shoots out of his nose, he passes out, and an asteroid destroys Earth. Yes, all of humanity is wiped out due to a back to back underwear peep.

So now Yuta becomes a ghost, but not completely dead. He meets this cat who, supposedly, has an addiction to pornography, and the cat explains all the stuff above, and explains that Yuta's soul is outside his body as he has been possessed by someone else. Yuta can only regain his body by aquiring some ancient book from India. This is easier said than done as now that he is a ghost, Yuta is privy to all kinds of upskirts and panty shots galore...which keeps destroying the world and forcing him to go back in time.

It sounds really f****** stupid when I write it out, but I assure you, this show is worth your time. It's hilarious, action packed, and wonderfully animated with loads of vibrant colors as you can see below...

This show has already drawn a lot of comparisons to old anime great FLCL, and that's a fair comparison. Some elements of this show seem to be an homage to that, and so far it's been as good as I could possibly expect for a show with such a premise. Seeing as the second episode premieres today at 2 ET, I figured I'd give you the heads up so you can show your friends and have them question what you are doing in your free time.