
I mean, yes, that guy was obviously just a pervert, but defending his collection of erotica as some from of “high-art” actually had a layer of credibility when they were all genuinely old and preserved paintings from past eras. Totally.” And his pathetic grandstanding was actually kinda compelling.

You’re totally not just a perverted old geezer. I always thought it was such a hilarious gag to have him desperately trying to convince everyone his collection of old erotic paintings was more than just masturbatory fetish-fuel, because everyone was just like, “Yeah, sure. That old sleazeball from the beginning who was in crippling debt with Rihaku. It feels like it was made by that one guy from Night Is Short, Walk on Girl. Like Non Non Biyori was an appreciation of countryside middle school girls’ innocent ways of life, then Akebi-chan no Sailor-fuku is an appreciation of countryside middle school girls’ innocent…umm…bodies? I honestly don’t really know what to make of it sometimes.

I think it would be grievously disrespectful to the artistic merit this series has to offer to simply say the whole point of it is to show hebe lolis striking extremely suggestive poses while zooming in on them in a blatantly sexualized fashion, but if someone watched it and walked away with that impression, I couldn’t really blame them. Nowhere else will you find such lovingly crafted artwork and animation of a cute moe girl clipping her toenails and smelling the clippers like a complete fucking degenerate. This show is some creepy, grimey, fetishy shit, and I’m not gonna lie.
