Things I have watched lately: Tytania 01-11

[kutsuwamushi]

We collect taxes in the form of hair care products.

Tytania is about a clan (named Tytania) that's so successful in war and shooting toddlers out of cannons that it controls the space empire that it nominally serves. Ever since the first clan lord, named Neville, they have never been defeated. They're feared and hated throughout the universe, but everyone who stands up to them is ruthlessly crushed under a very snazzy boot heel.

The current clan lord has four potential successors, each with their own fashion foibles:


Duke Aryabhata Tytania ran out of fabric for his cape, and to compensate refused to cut all of his bangs.


Duke Jouslain Tytania, fed up at being taken seriously due to his sane hairstyle, decided to put feathers in his futuristic space cravat.


Duke Zarlish Tytania either wants to be a trucker or a magician. Maybe both.


Duke Idris Tytania will kill you if you mention the poster of Farrah he has on his closet door.

The dukes are eager to distinguish themselves in front of the current clan lord, but there's this problem in the form of Fan Hyulick, the first man to ever defeat Tytania in battle.

Fan Hyulick doesn't have insane hair, a cape, or even a cravat, which makes it even more shocking when he defeats Aryabhata's fleet while defending the planet Euria from a Tytanian invasion. It's not just Tytania that's shocked; unfortunately for Hyulick, the Eurian government had been planning for him to lose and neglected to mention it to him. Now Hyulick is on the run.



He's not thrilled.

(Aryabhata never lives it down. Idris constantly needles him about being defeated by a man with no cravat.)

So that's where Tytania is right now. Aryabhata is still embarrassed and occasionally seeks comfort from Jouslain, when Jouslain isn't busy having philosophical monologues. Zarlish continues to be the ugly one. Idris schemes of the most effective ways shoot toddlers out of cannons, in the hopes of impressing the clan lord.

Each would like to capture Fan Hyulick, who is meanwhile meeting exiles in disastrously stupid pants:


"What did you say about my pants?"

And princesses of defeated countries who have turned to smuggling:


"More beer!"

And doctors of philosophy who are, apparently, such big assholes that civilized society will no longer have them:


"I'm surrounded by idiots. You're an idiot. He's an idiot. I'm the only one in this room who is not an idiot."

He even meets Zarlish's baby brother, who has very little in common with Zarlish, or, in fact, anyone who is not a squid:


"Seeing your face makes me puke."

But what do I think of all this? I like it so far, even though it fails at being a political drama. In fact, trying to figure out the political system makes my head hurt because it often makes only as much sense as the fashion does. But it's fun and not insultingly stupid, like a lot of anime I've recently tried.

And I'm totally going to write sudaki a story about Jouslain and Aryabhata hugging, if they both survive.

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[sudaki]

BUT ALSES.

ALSEEESSS.

[kutsuwamushi]

FINE I WILL EDIT IN ALSES

[sudaki]

I am now satisfied.

I don't know who is puking at whose face but that's okay because really, it could go either way.

[kutsuwamushi]

They are both thinking it at the same time. THEY'RE MORE SIMILAR THAN THEY THINK.

Don't tell them, they'll be horrified.

[meej]

Now I am feeling guilty that my dramas so far have absolutely no cravats, even the Billy Madison Yakuza.

The doctor of philosophy is always a jerk. It is one of the laws of anime.

[kutsuwamushi]

The doctor of philosophy is a jerk, but he's right about being smarter than everybody else in the room, which makes him an entertaining break from everybody else.

Also, he's a pirate.