Friday, February 7, 2014

This is Hell. By all Means, Let us Settle Things with Violence: Bureaucratic Problem Solving in Hozuki no Reitetsu

It has recently come to my attention that Hozuki no Reitetsu exists, and it is amazing, ongoing, and
addresses the very important issues of bureaucratic administration in Hell.

From geekeccentric.com

The bureaucracy in Hell is complicated.  There are 272 divisions of Hell (8 cold regions, 8 hot regions, and each of those 8 is split into 17 sections), all of which have to be staffed and supervised (in case demons need to be yelled at for tormenting the damned in an entirely too lackadaisical fashion).   The great spirit of the Styx needs medical attention for eating a giant crab, and various minions need to have settled the important issue of whether or not most demons still wear the traditional tiger skin underwear.   What's Hozuki, personal secretary/second in command to Enma sama to do to relax in between beating people with a giant club (because it's Hell.  How else does a demon settle things than with violence?), organizing torture seminars for newcomers and sightseeing tours for the visiting Satan of European Hell?  Mostly watch Australian nature shows on satellite, which is somehow available in Hell (cable, I would believe, but satellite?  Reception has to be terrible, and if that's how they get internet, eesh the latency.) and grow giant creepy goldfish plants.  It's a living.

Only four episodes of this have aired so far and I'm completely in love with this show.  It's even educational!  We get to meet famous people from history and folklore, like Momotaro, who has a job harvesting peaches in Shangri-La (Heaven's biggest tourist trap and into some questionable dealing of Chinese wonder drugs.), and Yoshitsune Minamoto, who is a pretty boy with the Hell police.  Yoshitsune Minamoto is a pretty boy in Hell.  I cannot stress enough how much I adore Yoshitsune Minamoto as a pretty boy in Hell.

The opening theme is as amazingly ridiculous as all the rest of it:


New episode out as of yesterday.  Sports day for the minions of Hell!  I am incredibly excited.  

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