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Summertime is here and we talk about some of our favorite beach episodes, or at least the ones we remember the best! What was your favorite summer inspired anime? Get in the mood for fun in the sun with the AAAPodcast!

Rosario + Vampire

• Episode: 9
• Summary: It’s summer vacation so where do the characters go? Why, to a beach of course! There are some other things involving a field of flowers and enemies and random battles but who is keeping track amid the pointless fanservice.
• Good/bad? This episode falls under the “beach bad filler” category. There was nothing redeeming about this being set at a beach and it ended up taking away from the show due to its stupidity.

Tari Tari

• Episode: 4
• Summary: The girls of Tari Tari meet an old band of famous musicians on the beach. This inspires them to really get serious about singing in their choir club. Their spot is off the beach but they give a good performance for a small crowd.
• Good/bad? Tari Tari does a great job all around of being a fantastic show and this episode does the same. It’s not full of fanservice and shows how anime can have an episode set at a beach, with bikinis even, that isn’t annoyingly full of fanservice and still progresses the overall plot.

Arpeggio of Blue Steel

• Episode: 8
• Summary: Surrounded by the enemy the cast of arpeggio of blue steel decides to discuss strategy and other important life deciding factors over a BBQ on the beach.
• Good/bad? Is there anything about this show that’s good? No. The answer is NO. So it goes without saying that the beach episode is pointless and full of fanservice garbage.

Martian Successor Nadesco

• Episode: 10
• Summary: They’re sent to investigate a giant chulip on a tropical island. Beach time? Yep! Beach time. Of course Akito will run into the girl of his dreams but, there’s a reason this episode is titled “the problems with femininity”
• Good/bad? It’s hard to say that there’s a “good” reason to have a beach episode in a show about mecha and space. Perhaps some felt this contributed to the series, but I think it was, in actuality, a general waste of an episode.

Gurren Lagann

• Episode: 12
• Summary: Dai-Gurren needs some repairs. But, don’t worry, it’s cool because it happened to need repairs just when we discovered a vast ocean to have a beach episode at! Some things are brewing, but everyone knows Yoko’s feeling uneasy about the attention another recent female addition, Nia, is getting.
• Good/bad? Well, why put characters with DD boobs in an anime if you’re NOT going to put them in Bikinis? I mean, that makes it amazing, right?