Review for 'Pia Carrot'
Synopsis:
After saving Reika from falling off a ladder, Yusuke grows attracted to her.
Later, we find that she loves him too... and after spending a wonderful night
together in her bed, he finds that she's quitting!
Review:
Pia Carrot is a restaurant (actually decent) owned by Yusuke's family.
Because of his bad grades, his parents make him work there over the summer. He
tries to sneak a peek into the girls' changing room, and gets caught (but not
before Reika takes her bra off). Reika screams, but when the managers show up
she says she just saw a cockroach. The whole show progresses like that. Everyone
is spontaneously fickle for no apparent reason, and the pacing is rather slow.
The sex scene is longer than what you'd expect, but it was rather boring and I
nearly fell asleep watching it. No one has any personality save for very bad
stereotypes. Yusuke changes from being a pervert to someone who's very shy,
needing Reika to take the lead. The artwork and visuals are rather poor. All
parts of the anatomy is shown, and I find Yusuke is bit over-endowed. The
emphasis throughout is on how people look. Choko's hair is an exaggerated
attempt at your average school girl hair -- two gigantic pigtails -- which end
up looking like two brooms on her head. The only thing that's larger than
Reika's seemingly elastic breasts is her even bigger hair. In the next episode
the whole mess starts all over with another girl and Yusuke forgets all about
Reika. The dubbing is awful. The two female porn stars who did the dub
voices couldn't even get the names right. Pia Carrot is actually based on a
bishoujo game series in Japan, but the games are not available in English.
Miscellanies:
Reika's tacky green underwear was hard to watch. There is only one episode
per DVD, and the DVDs are quite expensive. The rest of the DVD (and your money)
is spent on the two porn stars who did the English dubbing, who are very ugly.