English Dub Review: Million Arthur “Utahime Is Here! Rah! Rah! Rah!”

Mirror, mirror, on the wall, how long must this go on for?

Overview

Yama gets a letter delivered to her from who she thinks is Utahime. Starstruck, she goes to the woods to meet her where she asks, and finally sees her face to face. However, the Utahime that shows up is actually an Arthur in disguise — a Mirror Arthur who uses her mirror to capture and mimic the faces of people she meets so that she can impersonate them. The Mirror Arthur knocks Yama out, copies her face, and then infiltrates the gang’s base in an attempt to destroy them from the inside. Unfortunately for her, their magic detects an Arthur’s presence in the estate, so she has to try and pick them off one by one while they’re all unknowingly hunting her.

She tries to go for Renkin as the Little Red Riding Hood Wolf, mistaking her for a naive child, but Renkin quickly identifies her as the Arthur. She escapes, and tries to target Tekken for his stupidity, but his stupidity proves him indestructible. She then attempts to seduce Kakka as Yama, but the gang assumes Yama has caught Dancho’s illness (which is perpetual horniness) and they keep her bed-bound. The real Utahime shows up, leading the real Yama to awaken and eventually show up to unmask the Mirror Arthur. The gang roasts the Mirror Arthur’s poorly planned assassination attempts, Utahime bonds with Yama, and Dancho…sexually assaults the Mirror Arthur?

Our Take

What’s there to say?

It’s getting harder and harder to sift through the undeniably bad content in this show in order to make remarks on the (EXTREMELY limited) good parts. After a certain point, what’s the purpose of even giving Million Arthur credit for anything it does when it continuously pours out episodes that are — not only tonally jumbled — but also, morally reprehensible? Sure, while there are occasional laughs via the voice acting or just the general outlandishness of the characters, it’s rare in comparison to the fact that most episodes are slow-burn filler with jam-packed fan-service scenes.

But this goes way beyond “fan-service.”

In this episode, Dancho explicitly sexually assaults someone — twice. Both times are played up for laughs. When the Mirror Arthur is pretending to be Yama in disguise, Dancho pins her onto the bed and violates her off-screen — and then at the end of the episode when the Mirror Arthur is in her clutches once more, she says: “I behaved earlier because I thought you were her, but now that I know you’re not…” She then proceeds to, once again, violate her off-screen.

She also asks the Mirror Arthur to turn into Yama before this happens, though, grossly implying that Dancho needs an outlet for her non-consensual fantasies. Dancho isn’t just the wacky-horny-protag with a distasteful undertone, anymore — she’s a flat out rapist. The fact that this is something that the audience is supposed to find hilarious is indescribably disgusting in every way, shape and form.

“Disgusting” seems to be the only thing this show is consistent with. Tonally, it keeps trying to be funny by having the characters act as slap-stickily idiotic as possible (“Woah! There goes a flying blue whale behind you!” Cue everyone looking, for some unknown reason.) but simultaneously, it wants to be deep with this overly complicated plot which really boasts nothing but filler. Episodes like this make the show feel more like a parody of an anime, rather than an actual anime — except that a parody anime would be a way more worthwhile, self-aware watch.

Basically, go watch Girlchan in Paradise instead of this garbage.