nbartoletti - 2014-02-03 07:06:35

I feel like I just sat through an infomercial. A really cute infomercial, but an infomercial all the same.

Go! Go! 575 is a shortform anime produced in lieu of proper advertising to promote the upcoming (or shit, maybe it's already out, I have no fucking idea) Vita/iOS games of the same name. These games allow you create songs using haiku, hence the name 575. Now this must just be a Japanese thing because when you make Haiku in English, it typically isn't something one would actually sing. I'm also a bit confused as to how one makes a whole song out of something as short as a Haiku... maybe it's a string of multiple Haiku? Oh, I don't know.

So basically, it's the transient-tier version of Vocaloid for people with really obtuse ways of expressing themselves.

So this shortform anime is about a dynamic pair of girls and some random third lesbian fetishist bitch nobody cares about. Maccha and Azuki have a classic stoic girl/energetic girl dynamic that can definitely hold your attention for the 20 minutes or so you'll be watching them. For a 4-episode shortform, I can't really bitch too much. Their designs are cute, they have simple personalities, and they are cute together. The animation is also way better than it needed to be for something like this, but then again, they only had to make like 20 minutes of it so it better fucking be good.

They decide to start posting Haiku videos on the internet because Azuki saw a poster for Hot-cakes in a Hot-cakes restaurant, which seems kind of stupid because like, if you're already sitting down at the Hot-cake restaurant, you are probably already sold on some delicious breakfast action so why did they need to stick a poster there? Ah whatever, so anyway the poster has Haiku on it and she gets the brilliant idea to express herself in Haiku form. Great. Maccha goes along with this because she's a flat mascot character in a shortform anime promoting a video game, what else is she gonna do?

And then for the remainder of the time they do a variety of cute things, which rarely actually involve Haiku. Seriously, including the poster, I think there were like... 4 or 5 Haiku in the whole thing. So if you were looking at this show to get that quick fix of Haiku you so desperately need, it might not be enough to satiate you. Just sayin'. I think my favorite scene was when the stupid blond bitch who eats up way too much screen time starts fantasizing about the dynamic duo getting in some hot schoolgirl lesbian action while their parents are out of town. Shame it didn't actually happen or this could've been my first 10/10 shortform anime. Oh well, can't win'em all.

Anyway, for the 20 minute investment of my time, I could've done a lot worse I guess. So if you really feel the need to sit through a cute anime infomercial, this will get the job done.

Rewatch Value: Maybe (On a Yes/Maybe/No scale)