== My quick reaction to *Ookami-san to Shichinin no Nakamatachi* episode 1

Rather than just just email my comments to Author in response to [[his entry
http://ani-nouto.animeblogger.net/2010/07/01/early-bloggers-on-ookami7/]],
I'll be Author-like and post something here for once.

The first fansub of Ookami+7's first episode has come out, and I've
watched it now (partly because of Author's entry). Unlike some, I
actually like the narration; without its injection of snarky commentary
and the show's gleefully casual exploitation of Western fairy tales
for our amusement, this would be a pretty ordinary romantic comedy
anime with a vaguely unusual hook. As it is the show's atmosphere is
deliberately over the top, making me interested enough to watch at least
an episode or two more.

(How over the top? Well, the main part of the first episode is an
extended Cinderella parody, complete with a bicycle-drawn pumpkin
carriage. Said carriage is nowhere near the most amusing and absurd part
of the parody.)

If you want your romantic comedies without sly asides to
the audience, this is not your show and [[Aroduc's criticisms
http://blog.seiha.org/2010/06/ookami-san-and-seven-companions-01-the-glass-kick/]]
are completely on target. Otherwise and assuming that you don't want
something too deep, the start is promising but as always first episodes
can be terribly misleading and we don't know if the show can keep this up
for more than a few episodes without the formula getting stale; parodying
a fairy tale an episode this way could get repetitive really fast.