Odekake Kozame

Odekake Kozame is about the adventures of a cute baby shark, Kozame-chan. It's quite simple, both in story and animation, yet it provides me with absurd amount of joy. The anime does really well conveying the feelings of Kozame-chan through simple yet effective expressions, sound effects, and wonderful voice acting from Hanazawa Kana.

Every episode, Kozame-chan is outside, exploring the little joys in the world. From eating ice cream to seeing rainbow for the first time to helping a friendly-frog cross the bridge, there's a lot packed in to 60 seconds of animation everyday. It combines the overlooked yet pleasant surprises of life with a great ... deal of optimism.

Then every episode ends with the 30 second song sung by Kozame-chan about staying positive while exploring the world. The lyrics of the song sums up the anime:

"Even on a clear day,
Even on a rainy day,
Let's look for new things
No matter how far we have to go.
Every new trail we stroll
And every new part of town we discover,
When it's done with a smile,
It's gonna be a beautiful world!"

Overall Odekake Kozame is a 90-second long weekly dose of joy that will cheer up anyone. It's a cartoon for kids (or "anime" if you insist) yet it's genuinely a great show, even for adults. There's a hint of nostalgia and optimism in it that is really charming. I recommend it everyone give it a shot.

This anime brings me joy, I think that's good enough for me to give it a review. People look for things to keep them entertained and happy, kisame kun really does do that by just existing. Bless this shark, bless their friends, and bless the ending theme song that the animators create new images for from time to time.

Short but sweet, it's like a condensed slice of life, with all the pleasantness staying but it just being shorter. If you're sad or need some comfort, watch this cute shark as they go out into the world.

If this show were javascript, I would write ... it as:

watchShow = "unsure"

if(sliceOfLife == "I want to watch"){
watchShow = true;
} elseif(lookingForFightingOrDrama == true) {
watchShow = false;
}

There is no mystery, this is not an anime you need to maul over, you just need to sit and enjoy cute shark. That's it, that's the play. The style is adorable, the plots are simplistic but still cute, and although it is no masterpiece to me, it still brings me joy to watch.

I have never, in my whole life cried to an anime or any piece of media for that matter, I could not conjure up those tears even if I wanted to. This is the first piece of media I have genuinely cried to, not because it had amazing storytelling which exceeds other top tier stories, it's a masterpiece because it just simply melts your heart from the amount of cuteness it exudes, anyone and I mean anyone would have their hearts melted just by watching this. If you just broke up with your partner watch this, if your cat just died watch this, if you ... just had a shitty day in general watch this, I cannot fucking emphasize how this small series has helped me relive so much of the pent up emotion I've been building for the past year or so. 10/10 would cry to this again