What do you get when you cross referential humor and perversion? A few shows have attempted to answer that, and the answer generally comes out as “not funny enough to be a comedy, just perverted enough to be offensive.” Thankfully the second season of Wooser's Hand-to-Mouth Life is indeed funny, and the perversion exists in the vacuum that is a chibi show, where a panty shot couldn’t be more than a centimeter wide on a 60” screen even if the producers wanted it to be. And after the first episode of normal animation and slightly tasteless fanservice fortunately cut by Wooser’s commentary of it as such, things shrink down to the usual ridiculous art, and perversion shrinks down to some remarks about uniforms and protecting the world from aliens as long as it has girls and steak. Vegetarians beware.
As always, the yellow ball with floppy ears known either as Wooser or as Miyano Mamoru leads a busy life of making one crossover per four minute episode and still being expected to have time to save the world as a grasshopper, or find a way off of a deserted island, and even so far as to wake up on his birthday. The recurring theme is dreams, and so Wooser’s commentary on what he sees in his sleep has the chance to go beyond everyday life to the most fantastical of situations. He has a pretty small imagination to match his petty attitude towards life, but alas, what else can be done with three minutes a week? The two girls he lives with, along with his butler Darth Wooser and a whole host of other girls and animal-ish things pop in for the timely tsukkomi, and nothing goes beyond a superficial level. And that’s the way it should be. Also the ending theme is a good chance to hold a rave to Mamoru’s voice.