May 2, 2019
There's a story somewhere about the making of Ladyspo. There has to be. Some key staff member had a nervous breakdown, or all funding was cut and they were forced to air the thing anyway. Just SOME reason why this was allowed to exist and air as-is. I think most of the reason I'm bothering to write a review of this 'series' is so some brave Internet detective out there will find the answer.
Ladyspo is ostensibly about a female sports team in the future, in space. It's actually a picture drama - some okay-ish images with an overlay of each speaking character, mouth flapping to
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convey speech but not even trying to keep it in sync. I can remember very few things about the characters, even though we're probably supposed to care since what 'plot' we get involves rivalries, disappearances, and very little actual sports. Even that jumps all over the place and keeps adding new concepts with so little resolution that at one point a character says "we'll work it out somehow" and that's supposed to be it.
Much of the first episode or two involves jokes about bathroom use, maybe to distract from the lack of movement or action in a show about sports that is also 3 minutes long (plus a minute of song over the credits) each episode. That ends for a long stretch until, an episode or two before the series is over, an 'emotional' scene is happening while there are (new and different!) visuals of the characters on the toilet AGAIN - as if the budgetless show lost even more money and had to last-minute replace what was actually supposed to be there.
The toilet 'humor' isn't the biggest problem with Ladyspo, because that mostly ends. The 'slide show' nature of the show isn't the problem, because there are plenty of good audio dramas where you can effectively imagine what's going on and be drawn into the story. The biggest issue is that Ladyspo instead fails to be...really anything. Not enough attempts at humor to be a comedy. Not enough cohesiveness to be a story. Not enough wackiness to be randomness-driven. Not enough fanservice to be ecchi.
And the sports? At least three times I didn't know what game they were playing or what the rules were. I'm still not sure if I was supposed to.
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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