Karen's Anime Blog

I think there is value in reading someone’s impressions of a show before you devote time to it, but sometimes, it’s best just to go in blind. Turkey! is one of those times. Please stop reading and go watch the show if you haven’t already.

…..Are you sure you don’t want to watch it? I’m about to spoil the whole thing, this is your last warning…..

…Okay, this is ridiculous. The premise is a total lie– it’s not actually about bowling. The episode starts off being about Cute Girls Doing Cute Bowling and there’s the one girl who wants to take competitions more seriously while the other girls want to have fun, blah blah blah, typical sports anime drama. Then some kind of ancient bowling ball gets unearthed, the main character’s pink bowling ball starts to glow, and the whole team is pulled into some kind of a portal. The last scene of the episode shows the lead, Mai, on a battle field that looks like historical Japan– I’m not up enough on my Japanese history to be able to identify exactly what time period it is, but it’s several hundred years ago at least. So it’s a time-travel anime that was promoted as a bowling anime. I don’t understand this.

I mean, it’s cool having something be so unexpected, but there are people who actually like bowling, who were happy they were finally getting a bowling anime, and now it’s…something else. This was incredibly brave on the part of the production staff, but I don’t know if its going to be worth the risk.

I was all prepared to talk about what little I know about bowling, including how “lane conditions” are a thing if you are a serious bowler, but now it kind of seems irrelevant. I will definitely be watching to see what this show does over the course of the season. Maybe it’ll just switch genres again and become a romcom? Nothing is stopping it.