Beheneko - Episode 12 [END] - Tama Above Steamy Harem
Aria and Tama’s teamwork stops the demon plot. The season finale had time enough for one more bath scene!
Heh.
Beheneko’s final episode started by replaying the conclusion of last week’s episode. Skipping over the useless intro gave me the time to examine its opening credits one more time. Do you remember Levi, the naked demoness in a hot spring that Alisha beheaded? She wore a butler’s uniform in the villains’ collage montage. What was her story? We never heard it. What a waste.
Let’s get to the parts of the end game where every supporting character has a hero scene. Vulcan has a fire hammer. Beheneko recycled Stella’s taunt, absorb, and release mechanic. It also repeated Aria’s twin slashing. Har. Arnold and Cedric have their version of pairs ice skating: Yaoi on Ice. Fione and Leo defend their village, while Leona loves her two-hit area-of-effect attacks.
Vasago pulls the keikakudoori card. Nidhogg, a Norse wyrm known for chomping the roots of Yggdrasil, the World Tree, becomes Vasago’s mount to capture the Philosopher’s Stone at its center. Only Aria and Tama, the Holy Beast, can oppose them. Vasago knows how to fight with portals! Don’t come after Beheneko, Valve. Oof. Nidhogg ate the Philosopher’s Stone! Aria stows aboard the wyrm, but Tama can’t fire energy howls at him because he might hurt Aria.
Aria leaped off the dragon! Tama has a deadline: defeat Nidhogg before his master hits the ground. Oh, Aria helped with her Excalibur skill. An elf girl and her pet overpowered a Big Four demon. How embarrassing. History rhymes through another hero and her holy beast.
Party time! Nice! I want to drink with Vulcan! She can handle her ale better than Howard the Lizard Man. Ooh. Alisha bestowed a heroic title on Tama and Aria: Aria the Sacred Blade and Tama the Sacred Beast.
Homecoming and home bath scene!
Geh.
Twelve bath episodes in a row! Uh oh. Stella and Aria want to see “big” Tama again. Hoho! Even Vulcan wants to join “nyaa-nyaa pussy time.”
Epilogue time. The adventure continues, but that’s it for this season. The end.
Final Thoughts.
Beheneko, for better and worse, demonstrated the quality of storytelling that comes from self-publishing websites. What started as a simple reincarnation tale became a mishmash of Japanese isekai, demonic dimensions, and a hodge-podge of mythological folklore. A cat girl named Vulcan stands next to an elf girl using Excalibur to fight Nidhogg from Norse myths. Whew. My theory — The original author only stuck the Japanese isekai victim in as the Grand Mage to explain Alisha’s French Maid uniform and Japanese cuisine because he couldn’t describe anything else.
But I didn’t watch this show for its consistent internal world-building. Beheneko was the only anime with uncensored nipples for the winter anime season. We saw hefty elf melons, toned arms, side boobs under coveralls, and tan well-defined abs. The women’s character designs were gifts to the sighted.
Tama’s comedic restraint and many references to his “little behemoth” crafted a tone and slice-of-life elements that were never heavy. Beheneko was fun to watch without emotional investment.
Will there be a second season? I doubt it, but the light novels and manga adaptations are currently being released, so anything is possible. I would welcome a sequel if Tama’s baby behemoth balls had more prominent screen time. They drive elf girls, cat girls, and dragon girls crazy!