An American Writer's Thoughts on Japanese Animation

Ecchi Express – Rail Wars! Spoiler Review

Rail Wars! (the title is excited) is another in a long, long line of shows that try distinct themselves by doing the exact same thing all the others do: serving up a double-d helping of ecchi eye candy to hint at romantic overtones even if the core material doesn’t really have romance in its genre DNA. To be fair, some of the shows like that are at least okay, like the better end of the classical battle school harem bracket, but especially when the show has ecchi but not romance, it does need something to provide the meat of the material rather than just the lovely and usually bouncy gravy that is the fanservice.

Rail Wars! has, um, trains. I guess.

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