02-17-2010, 11:43 PM
Some of you may remember me talking about Golden Boy on these forums.
I must admit, when I heard "I liked Golden Boy, it was good" from one of my friends way back in high school two thoughts came to mind:
- girlwholikesanime.....*drool*
and
- girl likes anime called "Golden Boy", probably some girl's anime about a prettyboy who sweeps some girl off her feet Wuthering Heights style.... boooooooring
That was that.
Until I saw this clip:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/bHmBSfci0yE&rel=0&fs=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/bHmBSfci0yE&rel=0&fs=1</a>
Freaking hilarious.
Golden Boy is about a guy who, well, is a "freeter". Yes, another word that Japanese people made up to classify people. A "freeter" is a person between the ages of 15 and 35 who aren't employed full time, students, or homemakers. Apparently if you're 36 you're something else... anyway....
Kintaro travels all over the place in search of part time employment that will further his "studies". His "studies" basically include learning everything about everything. Kind of insane, I know.
To describe Kintaro, he is:
- honest
- hard working
- perverted
- a genius
Yep, he's a genius, and good at completely everything.
So, he goes around getting these odd jobs that he is in no way qualified for, but then he somehow learns how to do them but usually ends up leaving just at the moment he makes a major contribution and is also the victim of some misunderstanding.
For example, one day he gets hit by a car, and he begins apologizing to the attractive, rich, incredibly slutty dressing woman who hit him. She gives him some cash for a new bike, but he fervently promises to repay her. Somehow he ends up giving to money to some old people who are short on their rent, so he goes to a part time job.... to work for the woman who hit him.... at a software company.
He is very poor, and this anime is old. He has never used a computer, or programmed before. So he practices by drawing a keyboard on a piece of paper, and typing on it. Seriously. Anyway, throughout his entire stay he fantasizes about the toilet seat his slutty boss may or may not have used and does other random perverted things while he acts as a janitor.
Then one day he shuts down all the computers to save energy, and, uh-oh, the only copy of the software they have been developing for 4 months gets magically deleted. Welcome to the 90s.
So, they're all mad at him, and they can't redo the software before the deadline (3 days or something insane) so they're burning out like crazy.
As magic would have it, Kintaro rewrites the software based on his memory of the screens he saw around the office, and it's somehow better than ever before, has no bugs, and works flawlessly.
He leaves the disk containing the software on his bosses desk and leaves in the middle of the night, believing that they hate him for what he's done. But really the office (which is all women somehow) are now all raring to have his babies, but Kintaro is already moving on, to other, weirder things.
So, yeah, Kintaro is a maniac.
He jumps his bike off a dam, he catches some girl's spit on his tongue, he learns to develop software with a fake keyboard, learns to be a competition grade swimmer in a month, etc etc etc.
So, anyway, Golden Boy is hilarious, and I recommend it to anyone who can deal with the perversion.
8/10
(you'll notice I give high scores a lot, that's because I generally review what I like)
I must admit, when I heard "I liked Golden Boy, it was good" from one of my friends way back in high school two thoughts came to mind:
- girlwholikesanime.....*drool*
and
- girl likes anime called "Golden Boy", probably some girl's anime about a prettyboy who sweeps some girl off her feet Wuthering Heights style.... boooooooring
That was that.
Until I saw this clip:
Freaking hilarious.
Golden Boy is about a guy who, well, is a "freeter". Yes, another word that Japanese people made up to classify people. A "freeter" is a person between the ages of 15 and 35 who aren't employed full time, students, or homemakers. Apparently if you're 36 you're something else... anyway....
Kintaro travels all over the place in search of part time employment that will further his "studies". His "studies" basically include learning everything about everything. Kind of insane, I know.
To describe Kintaro, he is:
- honest
- hard working
- perverted
- a genius
Yep, he's a genius, and good at completely everything.
So, he goes around getting these odd jobs that he is in no way qualified for, but then he somehow learns how to do them but usually ends up leaving just at the moment he makes a major contribution and is also the victim of some misunderstanding.
For example, one day he gets hit by a car, and he begins apologizing to the attractive, rich, incredibly slutty dressing woman who hit him. She gives him some cash for a new bike, but he fervently promises to repay her. Somehow he ends up giving to money to some old people who are short on their rent, so he goes to a part time job.... to work for the woman who hit him.... at a software company.
He is very poor, and this anime is old. He has never used a computer, or programmed before. So he practices by drawing a keyboard on a piece of paper, and typing on it. Seriously. Anyway, throughout his entire stay he fantasizes about the toilet seat his slutty boss may or may not have used and does other random perverted things while he acts as a janitor.
Then one day he shuts down all the computers to save energy, and, uh-oh, the only copy of the software they have been developing for 4 months gets magically deleted. Welcome to the 90s.
So, they're all mad at him, and they can't redo the software before the deadline (3 days or something insane) so they're burning out like crazy.
As magic would have it, Kintaro rewrites the software based on his memory of the screens he saw around the office, and it's somehow better than ever before, has no bugs, and works flawlessly.
He leaves the disk containing the software on his bosses desk and leaves in the middle of the night, believing that they hate him for what he's done. But really the office (which is all women somehow) are now all raring to have his babies, but Kintaro is already moving on, to other, weirder things.
So, yeah, Kintaro is a maniac.
He jumps his bike off a dam, he catches some girl's spit on his tongue, he learns to develop software with a fake keyboard, learns to be a competition grade swimmer in a month, etc etc etc.
So, anyway, Golden Boy is hilarious, and I recommend it to anyone who can deal with the perversion.
8/10
(you'll notice I give high scores a lot, that's because I generally review what I like)