When it comes to bringing the goods, as it were, I knew that Sgt. Frog wouldn’t disappoint, and indeed it didn’t disappoint in not disappointing – we have our first Mikan Box before we reach the halfway point of the first episode, and, indeed, there’s a second in the very same scene.

Funimations release of Sgt. Frog has been a little controversial, at least as far as the shows dub goes – it kind of eschews such silly concepts as consistent characterisation and faithfulness to the original work in order to cram some kind of joke into every single line of dialogue, be it toilet humour or an extended reference to The Dark Knight. It’s pretty tone changing.

This probably won’t do much for my nerd credentials, but it’s not like I can particularly blame them – I presume that they were trying to sell this to some TV network or other, but much of Sgt. Frog is surprisingly dry for something that’s supposed to be a comedy. About one in every ten stories (of which there are two an episode) is actually funny in the original work.

The subs are accurate, though ^^;

(Also, insert “Damn it! Car chase!” reference here).