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(Two episodes watched): I had read a mention of this show as isekai at ANN, but I concluded my memory was wrong as almost all of episode one was clearly about the struggle to keep this bowling team from breaking up. I had started out thinking that a show about bowling probably wouldn't be much fun, and definitely wouldn't be isekai, but afterwards coming around to find these girls to be interesting characters who I'd like to know more about. They have some brains and engage in a little philosophy, like "It only takes a moment to lose something". The show is definitely about them, not bowling (a 'Turkey' seems to be a term for one or more successive strikes). And then a bolt of lightning strikes what seems to be an old bowling ball at a construction site, setting off what one of the girls describes as a 'paranormal phenomenon' and hurling them back to a battlefield in medieval Japan (I think). It worked for me; how will a girls bowling team deal with a situation like this? I absolutely must know what happens next, which is to say that episode one of this series did exactly what it was supposed to. Episode two, however, was a distinct disappointment. A bowling ball, rolling on the ground, somehow bounces upwards and hits a soldier in the head, then bounces off him and hits yet another, knocking both of them out? And a handsome young soldier is captured uninjured after a close quarters swordfight, and turns out to be an important local figure, which is just what these five girls need? I could not take this show seriously after wild strokes of good luck like these. This show seemed to have dispensed with the personalities of the main characters and switched to the sort of story a schoolchild would write. If this is the way this show is going to go, it would have been better off if it had remained in present-day Japan and been entirely about the travails of a bowling team. I started watching episode three but quickly found it to be so asinine that I couldn't tolerate it. The way the characters bicker was like fingernails-on-chalkboard. Do they not realize what has happened to them and how serious it is? This show which had gotten off to a good start was now feeling as if it had been written by children, and after five minutes or so I decided to hang it all up. Last updated Sunday, August 03 2025. Created Sunday, July 20 2025. | ||||||||
