First Impression – Triage X [NSFW]
Where we’re going, we don’t NEED any pants
Wait a second. That’s gotta be the wrong icon over there on the left. *checks post header…* No, it matches up, but why on Earth is Highway doing an FI of Triage X? Did someone else get lost? Nope, noone got lost, and I actually signed up to do this show. And yes, I knew pretty much what I was getting into. Did you when you watched this show?
Get The Hospital Colloquialism Guide, Stat!
The Team
The primary premise of Triage X is that there is a vigilante squad, well funded and supported, that has made it their business to get rid of some of the worst criminals it can find. And this vigilante squad just happens to be staffed primarily by hot high school girls with big boobs, or alternatively hot nurses with big boobs. And a guy named Arashi Mikami. This squad has been put together by Doctor Masamune Mochizuki, who is the chairman of the Mochizuki General Hospital, and goes around finding people who need to be killed.
Basically, what they do is murder people
What this group also does is lay on the medical terminology really thick. Bad guys are ‘lesions’ to be ‘excised’, Arashi is ‘on call’ to do the ‘operation’. Mochizuki is doing ‘triage’. On and on. It’s clever, but can get a little old. I guess it’s a bit of a hook for the show, and as long as the references aren’t too tortured, it’ll work out fine.
Competing Interests
He actually smiles!
I thought the first episode of the show played out well, giving us some bad guys to deal with, and some insight into Arashi’s (and Mikoto’s) life at school as well as on the job. I also liked that it wasn’t all about Arashi and Mikoto, bringing in Hinako Kominato as an early crush on Arashi, who even gets him to hang out with her. Another good point I thought was that Arashi isn’t completely the dour-faced ‘guy with a troubled past’. He smiles at Hinako, he agrees to walk home with her. He then skips out on her, but still isn’t completely no-fun.
I’m guessing she’s a bad guy, but the pasties are nice for wayfinding
On the other hand, the show’s full of some nasty people. While the first kill is the elder Aranami, his son is just as bad it seems, torturing a girl to get back at her father. I’m guessing that Taisei is actually dead after being shot in the head, but I don’t know if this is the kind of show that would bring someone back from the apparently dead like that. So there’s a very serious side to the show, although Oriha tends to lighten that up quite a bit with her demeanor.
Noone will ever figure out who you are with that mask on…
Bonus Steamy Stitch
Not a bad show, and I’d have to say that it didn’t overdo it with fanservice. Part of that is due to the heavy steam in the shower scene, which made for a bit of an uninteresting pan as the camera moved through steam after steam after steam. The end result of the show was a bit male-gazey, and a little bit on the ‘unrealistic’ side but the intended audience isn’t really going to complain about that. It opened up a lot of storylines in this first episode, so we’ll have to see where they go, and also how Arashi is able to satisfy his own survivor’s guilt. Not a bad production by Xebec, with mostly good character designs (although a bit anti-gravity at points) and no obvious flaws that I saw. The OP and ED are pretty good rockin’ tunes, too. So even if you think this isn’t the kind of show I’d watch, I’ll keep watching it for now.
About Highway
Proving that you don't have to be young to love anime, I enjoy all genres and styles of shows. If it's not hurting anyone else, you should never be ashamed of what you like!
POWUH: Meta Team and Meta-Analyst with 3844 comments
Triaged as XXX. Mastectomy needed.
UnixificationEunucification also offered.POWUH: and Vampire Lover with 11746 comments
That mind of yours that’s stuck in the gutter… We need an MRI! Stat!
POWUH: Meta Team and Meta-Analyst with 3844 comments
Too late. *prepares ECT for BB* 😛
POWUH: and Vampire Lover with 11746 comments
Never…
POWUH: and Vampire Lover with 11746 comments
Not bad, I guess. It’s a start, just that the story has to do something to make the male lead feel less like a robot. The girls and their different qualities can come later. Other than that, they’re doing an otherwise good job seeing that their targets truly are worthy of being hunted down like animals.
POWUH: Meta Team and Spammy Tamer with 7115 comments
If there was one thing that Arashi had an advantage at, it was a slight one in that he actually seemed to genuinely smile at Hinako. Most of the ‘guy with a dark past’ protagonists are dour, humorless black clouds. So maybe he’s a robot that smiles.
POWUH: Meta Resident and LN Informant with 1529 comments
Triage’s mangaka is Shoji Sato, previously the artist for the Highschool of the Dead manga series.
I swear, the boob sizes here make the DxD girls’ ones look like ant-bites.
POWUH: and Vampire Lover with 11746 comments
There’s some truth to that. One of the girls, a blonde but I can’t remember which one, her bust size is 118.
POWUH: Meta Team and Spammy Tamer with 7115 comments
As far as personal taste, I find these to generally be less attractive in shape.
POWUH: and LOLi Defender with 10998 comments
I hear Team Chippai is planning a protest…
POWUH: and Vampire Lover with 11746 comments
And the opposition is already prepared with a riot squad waiting on standby.
POWUH: and LOLi Defender with 10998 comments
Oh, they disbanded….well that was ant-climatic…
POWUH: and Vampire Lover with 11746 comments
Yellow-bellied cowards…
POWUH: and LOLi Defender with 10998 comments
Well, by habit, they fold like rusty patio chairs…
POWUH: Meta Team and Meta-Analyst with 3844 comments
*Joins the riot squad* Use deadly force with extreme prejudice if needed!
POWUH: and Vampire Lover with 11746 comments
I don’t think the deadly force is going to be necessary. 😛
POWUH: Meta Team and Meta-Analyst with 3844 comments
Booo… I was looking forward to see nurses doing Triage.
POWUH: Meta Team and Ringleader Extraordinaire~ with 6433 comments
This is an ecchi with some plot device, which is better than your usual ecchi just for the heck of it. The HoTD character designs were screaming off their boob strings and I literally laughed throughout the beginning scene but the rest was a-okay.
POWUH: Metanorn Regular with 140 comments
You’re right highway, there aren’t any flaws to notice because the whole show is SHIT! Is your ability to tell bad anime apart from good ones bugging out on you? It’s okay to call something out as terrible! What, are you going to recommend Violence Jack next because it has an “interesting characterization?!”
POWUH: Meta Team and Meta-Analyst with 3844 comments
Puts the contact pads.
Sets defib to 360J.
Puts paddles to contact pads.
POWUH: Meta Team and Meta-Analyst with 3844 comments
-_- Someone defib spammy please. Thank you.
POWUH: Metanorn Regular with 140 comments
I don’t know what you’re talking about, I actually like this show
POWUH: and Vampire Lover with 11746 comments
Hate to break it to you but the intense aggression in your initial comment would’ve indicated otherwise. It gives off the wrong impression in a drastic way.
POWUH: Metanorn Regular with 140 comments
That was kind of the point. But while I don’t believe a shows quality and enjoyment level are always equivalent, I gotta call something shitty if that’s what it is.
POWUH: and Vampire Lover with 11746 comments
Normally when someone calls something “shitty” is because they dislike it so much the mere sight repulses them and never want to see it again.
POWUH: Meta Team and Meta-Analyst with 3844 comments
@BB
Like how A/Z ended? *deletes it from storage*
POWUH: and Vampire Lover with 11746 comments
@Di Gi Kazune: You’re still hung on that? If it’s a bad show to you, bringing it up all the time is just poisoning yourself. Let it go already. It’s a new season. Me? I’m indifferent on the show.
POWUH: Meta Team and Meta-Analyst with 3844 comments
Mmmm…. show by rock fix… tasty… next week:skylion’s middle school band lolis.
POWUH: Meta Team and Meta-Analyst with 3844 comments
Hate is a very efficient fuel.
POWUH: and Vampire Lover with 11746 comments
One that is too common.
POWUH: Metanorn Regular with 140 comments
Ok let me be clear. This show is a piece of shit. I like to watch shitty terrible shows every once in a while (see Mad Bull or Crystal Triangle). I will continue to call this show shit AND continue to watch it because frankly, I wish more anime more would embrace their terrible nature. That’s why I prefer this to say Brynhilder, which is also terrible but it thinks it’s better than it is.
POWUH: Meta Team and Meta-Analyst with 3844 comments
Somehow, I am impressed at the oxymoronic-ness of the comment.
POWUH: and Vampire Lover with 11746 comments
Okay, this comment is amusingly odd. Normally you’d expect people who like their shows not to shoot them down at the same time.
POWUH: Meta Team and Meta-Analyst with 3844 comments
Something like nuking your own capital in Civ?
POWUH: Metanorn Regular with 140 comments
All I can really say is there are enjoyable terrible shows and terrible shows that I absolutely despise. I would call both Triage and Denpa Kyoshi bad, but the act of watching Denpa actually makes me mad. Where as with Triage it is just stupid, crass, anatomically incorrect on epic levels, and slightly cringe inducing. Its kind of like how I can honestly appreciate watching Overfiend, but I don’t like Wicked City that much.
POWUH: Meta Team and Spammy Tamer with 7115 comments
I refuse to denigrate my own opinions in such a way.
POWUH: and Vampire Lover with 11746 comments
It’s a very ugly method in my opinion. I don’t see how people could actually do that.
POWUH: Meta Team and Meta-Analyst with 3844 comments
Apparently we are now seeing one in action…
POWUH: and LOLi Defender with 10998 comments
Since this is a “medical” show, I would hope the writing address some of the realism of the girl’s lower back and shoulder pain. Plus the overwhelming tenderness of the “subject matter” in question…
I think I would prefer my ecchi to be on the comedy side of things. Its’ no guarantee, but comedy, unlike violence, doesn’t make me feel it will devolve to unfortunate circumstances…
But it had some decent action to it. And the female characters aren’t totally offensive in the design. I’m hopeing it gets a bit smarter. A doctor would know that a “lesion” is just a symptom, and would look for a way to eliminate what causes it first. But that could end up a holier than thou cluster-fub…
POWUH: Meta Team and Meta-Analyst with 3844 comments
*Sits in the bloodbank sipping… something*
POWUH: and Vampire Lover with 11746 comments
Then you remember this is anime. Realism need not be an obligation. 😉
POWUH: and LOLi Defender with 10998 comments
Oh, pooh! Stop raining on my hopes and dreams!
POWUH: Meta Team and Meta-Analyst with 3844 comments
We are the shatterers of dreams and hopes! 😛