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Add - More Amaama to Inazuma Anime has a solid track record with adult men taking taking care of young daughters/dependents. Usagi Drop (I’ve only seen the anime so it’s all I care about!), Barakamon (not a father, but similar dynamic), what I read of the Yotsubato! manga, hell even Papakiki handled this aspect really well at times, even if it didn’t entirely shake a (one-sided thankfully) romantic distraction. So I expected to enjoy Amaama to Inazuma, and enjoy it I did. When you have to question who is cuter between Kouhei and Tsumugi, I think the show is doing something right. Because the show follows such a simple formula, I think the finale manages to wholly represent everything Amaama does best. In the last episode, Tsumugi is in a bad mood after fighting with her friend, and as usual the prescribed cure is “cook some yummy food at Kotori’s place!”. Along the way we hit all the show’s highlights: Tsumugi cheering up while watching everyone cook. Kouhei having meaningful and father-daughter heart-to-heart with Tsumugi. Kotori reveling in the opportunity to share her love of food with people she cares about. Yagi being a grumpy dude. Shinobu being her cute, silly, and deceptively perceptive self. Even Kotori’s absentee mom shows up this time. Amaama had two primary options for injecting drama into the story: Tsumugi having a serious breakdown over finally coming to terms with her mother’s death, or a scandal of some sort concerning Kouhei (an adult man) spending so much time around Kotori (a teenage girl, and his student) without Kotori’s mother around. Or as a variant on the second, Kotori falling in love with Kouhei and some manner of conflicted over that. I was prepared for one or both, though I didn’t really want either. Thankfully, we didn’t get either! Tsumugi does occasionally get upset and lonely when thinking about her mother, but this only serves to reinforce Kouhei’s determination to make up for lost time by being the best dad he can be. And Kotori does have a pretty clear (and understandable) crush on Kouhei, but Kouhei maintains an appropriate child/adult, student/teacher distance. His discussion with her about the feelings of parents towards their children puts a gentle yet firm kibosh on any movement in that direction. And thus the show concluded in exemplary slice of life/iyashikei fashion: it’s just another regular old day, and that’s why we love it. Gochisousama deshita! …Okawari?

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Add - More Amanchu! While there’s always more to slice of life shows than is evident on the surface, Amanchu! dives especially deep into its protagonist, Ooki Futaba, aka Teko. It’s more of a character study than most SOL shows. If you want to distinguish it from its predecessor (Aria), there are many ways to do so but I think this psychological intimacy sets the tone. Aria was a broad story about many small interactions across an entire city, while Amanchu is an intensely personal story constructed around one character’s anxieties, and how the special girl in her life helps her overcome them. Just like Aria wasn’t about becoming a Prima, and K-ON! wasn’t about performing concerts, Amanchu! wasn’t about diving. The diving certification represents a self-confidence Teko’s always lacked. It represents a goal, a fresh start. It could just as well serve as a marriage license with Pikari but I digress… Regardless, it was a very fitting way to end the series. Having just moved away from the only friends she’s ever had, Teko is a depressed, lonely girl with severe social anxiety. We meet her just before a wave named Pikari crashes into her life. As bewildering as Teko finds Pikari at first, she quickly latches onto her – so intensely that she feels completely lost whenever Pikari isn’t around. There’s a lot to unpack regarding how Pikari and Teko interact, and what they mean to each other. Teko’s anxiety looms over the story. Her steadfast refusal to delete pictures from her phone when she runs out of memory, even though she can just copy them off to external storage, has to be understood alongside her intense fear of losing the slightest control over the few happy memories she’s been able to make. Her middle school friends slipped through her fingers and now exist only as data on her phone. Couldn’t that happen to Pikari, Ai, and Makoto just as easily? This. terrifies. her. The flashback to her call with Akane prior to moving is the most heartrending moment of the season. “I know that whoever gets hung up on will be more scared. But I also know that whoever hangs up would be in more pain.” She gradually sinks below the frame, until she’s on the ground, paralyzed with grief. “The words of gratitude I finally mustered up somehow felt like parting words instead.” I can’t even think about the scene without tearing up. It’s one of those scenes that sticks with you for a long time, and it speaks volumes to where she is when the show starts. Teko finds her light in the radiant Pikari. But our perspective is biased; it’s heavily filtered through eyes hidden too long in a dark room, adjusting to the painful light of day. As much as Teko depends on Pikari, what she’s unable to see in the midst of Pikari’s brilliant glare is that Pikari needs her too. The gratitude Teko feels is returned as mutual affection. It would have been easy to leave all the issues on Teko’s side and have Pikari fix them, but Pikari is given depth though her own (infrequent, but crucial) introspective moments. Where Teko withdraws from others and clings to old memories, Pikari handles social awkwardness by acting out. Pikari offers an important counter to the idea that only introverted people can feel lonely. If you stop and think about it, what friends does Pikari have before meeting Teko? Absolutely none at school, from the looks of it. She gets along with the divers at her grandmother’s shop, but has no personal interaction with girls her own age. We don’t even hear about middle school friends. Comments she makes in the last episode reveal that she’s often turned other people off with her strange behavior. So go back and watch her first encounter with Teko again. Pikari needed a friend every bit as much as Teko did. A friend, and more than a friend. I’m writing this a few hours after having watched the finale, and I’m struggling to sort out my feelings. It ended as soon as it began, and there’s no hope of animated follow-up, and why oh why couldn’t it have happened earlier but, but, but… there’s no reasonable way to read that other than as a confession. The specter of plausible deniability hangs over the vast majority of girl-girl relationships in anime but this is not leaving much room for misinterpretation. It’s hard to come up with words to describe how I feel because I spent every episode thinking about how undeniably romantically coded their reactions have been, but also knowing full well that in these cases, we don’t get the words. But Amanchu did it. I’m just… not used to this. I’d only dared hope to avoid outright disaster, nothing more. But I am happy. I’m truly happy. Even though I know there won’t be a sequel. Even though I’m sure the manga doesn’t actually take this to the next step. Even though the show had to dance around it until the last 30 seconds. It’s still a moving, beautiful, and important thing. Seeing both of them so happy fills me with gratitude and happiness as well. And what is Amanchu!, if not a story about gratitude?

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Add - More Ange Vierge A good show is more then the sum of its cliches. Ange Vierge is meant to advertise a card mobage, and the ED even depicts the characters as cards. The dialogue is stuffed with references to in-game mechanics, particularly the ranking system, something that became a constant source of amusement for those few of us watching it. There’s plenty of meaningless technobabble and questionable mathematics. A long explanation of the premise with riveting dialogue like this precedes the OP before every episode. And roughly two-thirds of the first episode is the entire cast naked (in surprisingly casual and un-lewd ways, I’d like to add) in and around the baths, with the other third being practice battles, and tons of exposition/game jargon interspersed. I think this episode does a better job setting up the premise and character interactions than it got credit for but it’s easy to see why so many viewers dismissed the show out of hand at this point. The comical levels of censorship (while so off-the-charts I actually find it charming) also contributed to the snap judgment that Ange Vierge was a cheap throw-away advertisement show with nothing going on beneath. But give it a second chance and you’ll find a show that handles itself pretty deftly. I won’t try to sell it as the most sophisticated of stories, but it presents its ideas in a consistent, effective way. Its characters’ interactions and growth are all directed with focus towards that end. There’s a formula to Ange Vierge’s arcs: One of their recently-turned-evil EXR senpai begins to threaten the world crystal on their homeworld, and the lower-ranked UC kouhai speed off to stop them. After an initial skirmish the episode ends in a cliffhanger and the next episode opens with how the focus girl of the arc befriended Amane. The episode concludes with the Dark Progress EXR being subdued and rescued. The next episode begins with a reconciliation scene between the EXR and her respective UC and the formula repeats. Generally there’s a non-sequitur scene involving the military sisters Ageha and Mayuka, either during the episode, post-credits, or both. Formula isn’t bad if what it loses due to predictability is made up in focus. Arcs effectively established what Amane means to each of the girls: a little sister, a mother, a best friend, a commander, a “special” person. It’s easy to understand why they’re passionate about saving her. The same applies to their determination to save the Dark Progress EXRs. It’s not just because doing so prevents the destruction of five worlds, it’s because of the tight bonds they share: Saya and Miumi, Almaria and Sofina, Elel and Ramiel, Stella and Xenia/Carene, Nya and Ein. Ange Vierge is successful at not wasting the limited time it’s got. Although the EXRs each spend most of the show possessed by darkness, it’s made very clear that they’re still fundamentally themselves. Their hangups are just exaggerated, twisted versions of their real feelings, so even when they’re trying to beat the crap out of their beloved kouhai, we’re learning more about who they are and how they see each other. Elel’s and Almaria’s arcs do this best, but I’ll just talk about the latter. Elel idolizes Ramiel, but the handicapped (she’s a one-winged angel) Ramiel harbors suppressed mistrust about whether the happy-go-lucky Elel really likes her, or just pities her. It’s not hatred – Elel is genuinely precious to her – but there are dark feelings amplified by becoming a Dark Progress. The psychological attacks dark Ramiel launches on Elel (aided by Yuuki Aoi’s virtuoso performance), and Elel’s response, help define both characters and their relationship better. It’s also enhanced by strong visual direction, depicting the distance between Elel and Ramiel via elevation: far apart at the start, coming closer in their second encounter, and then, literally, seeing eye to eye when they reconcile. Fine, it’s not revolutionary stuff. But it’s really effective within the context of the story! Regardless, it’s not big themes that really sold me on Ange Vierge. The themes just provide a solid framework for a continuous stream of endearing and sometimes moving character interactions. There are some dramatic moments but also a ton of funny scenes, fantastic pairings (some quite unambiguously romantic or even sexual), a killer OP (best of the season!), frequent examples of really charming character and effects animation, top notch character designs, a really strong sense for color to set moods, and probably the cutest example of in-universe social media use ever in the final scene of the show. Ange Vierge is fun. Unashamedly, unadulteratedly, unreservedly fun. That should be cherished.

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Add - More Anne Happy♪ Four shows on my season roster fall under the “slice of life” umbrella, but they’re not very similar to each other, are they? • Flying Witch is very much on the “pure iyashikei” end of the spectrum. See also: Aria, Non Non Biyori. • Sansha Sanyou sticks very close to the “school friends just hanging out being goofy” approach, where (this is what separates them from the first category) the atmosphere is secondary to whatever gags are going on. See also: Yuyushiki, Hidamari Sketch, Azumanga Daiou, Sakura Trick, Kinmosa, etc – this may be the biggest category. • Bakuon leans heavily into the “club” (sometimes a hobby, sometimes even an occupation) sub-genre which has characters coming together though some common interest. See also: K-ON!, Hanayamata, Yama no Susume, Manabi Straight. I’d exclude shows explicitly about competition – Garupan and Saki are more properly sports shows, really. • Anne Happy’s main distinction is the “Happiness Class”. It doesn’t really function like a club in the sense that it’s not a “shared interest”, it’s something they’re unwillingly thrust into. And there’s too much focus on the consequences of what it means to be in that class for it to pass as a pure “goofing off” show like Sansan. I can’t say it’s more “plot-based” than the other types because the school machinations as narrative device doesn’t really constitute a coherent story, it just generates weird scenarios to which the characters have to react. But there’s something noticeably different about how most Anne Happy episodes play out because of it. That’s an overly long preface all to say that Anne Happy might send people running if they wanted a type 1-3 slice of life show. I guess the weirdo school portion of it just needs to click with you, at least enough not to be an annoyance. I can’t tell if I’m disappointed or not that there wasn’t some overarching story behind the school’s weird happiness curriculum, at least in the anime. It would have been easy to mess that up so it might be for the best, although early on I was intrigued to know what exactly was going on at the school. But in the end, it all worked out. While I didn’t really dig Timothy and their teacher was hit or miss, I really enjoyed the situations the girls were put in and how it ended up drawing them together. Episode 4 (searching for the flower of happiness) was the first episode to signal that this show was capable of delivering big emotionally affecting scenes. All the character chemistry snapped into place, and the episode built into a really solid climax. Hibiki was irreversibly attached to the group at that point, whether she’d admit it or not. Then just when I thought the show would have trouble topping episode 4, the very next episode was a major Hibiki/Ren episode. Unsurprisingly they were my favorite aspect of the show. While the show never “went anywhere” with them in the sense of canonically recognizing a relationship, I felt like it let Hibiki own her feelings for Ren a bit more honestly than most slice of life shows with ambiguous yuri couples. There was something matter-of-fact about Hibiki’s love for Ren, and something about the way Ren comported herself around Hibiki avoided the “hilarious” misunderstandings and denseness of characters like Rize in Gochiusa or Youko in Kinmosa towards their own Hibikis (Sharo and Ayaya respectively). Everything about Ren conveys the feeling that she knows how Hibiki feels. She’s not ready to openly respond, but she’s not dense either. It’s a subtle thing, but it stripped away a lot of the frustrations I tend to have with the not-quite-recognized relationships in these shows. Pulling Hibiki into the main group’s orbit using Hibari was also an excellent choice. From early on I found Hibari the weak link in the group, but every scene she had with Hibiki was gold. It’s good writing when you pull characters out of their niches and throw them together and greatly improve both characters in the process. After these two episodes, the show was set. It had established humor I liked, characters I found interesting, and enough chemistry between them to make any situation thrown their way into something enjoyable. It capitalized on that throughout the remaining episodes, through to a really solid ending.

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Add - More Bakuon!! Bakuon is good for all the reasons any competent slice of life show is, so there isn’t anything too exceptional going on here. I’m not interested in motorcycles or the whole culture around bikes, so what I got out of Bakuon was nice character designs and quirky character interactions. No less enjoyable for it, but pretty standard stuff... ...Except when it decides to go off the deep end. There’s a couple really bizarre aspects to this show and when it leaned into those it delivered its best gags. Hane’s meeting with Bike Jesus, all of Rin’s ridiculous dad stories, Onsa’s shady bike dealership, Rin’s contagious Suzuki disease, Raimu’s… whatever is going on with her. I’m still convinced she’s a ghost. This stuff was great, it was the zest an otherwise vanilla premise needed to stand out. Not that it always hit its mark. Episode five stumbled badly, with a fairly gross drunken groping incident courtesy of one of their female teachers, and then a questionable scene of the girls soaping up their bikes with their bodies. Everything involving Baita’s dialogue was pretty cringe-worthy too. Bakuon is more fanservicey than your average slice of life show and doesn’t always use it well. Although, given the mangaka’s questionable background, maybe we got off easy. But the most important part of Bakuon is, of course, Rin. She (like Hibiki in Anne Happy) is the bulls-eye in my character archetype strike zone. Cute, hard-working girls who are passionate about what they love but have trouble being honest with their feelings around others are just. the. best. Not because their inability to express themselves is in and of itself “adorable” (that way lies Kuma Miko, from what I understand), but because that struggle is accompanied by moments in which he characters score little victories or open up more to others which make it all that much more rewarding. Rin also works in the archetype of the character eternally bullied by her own show. Even the goddamn shopping district Santa shits on Rin. But the bullying doesn’t feel fundamentally malicious to me. It’s very much comedic, and she does it to herself as much as others do it to her. The message of the show isn’t “Rin is bad and deserves to be mocked” by any stretch. Bakuon isn’t trying to hurt Rin, and if it were we wouldn’t get endearing scenes like her working hard delivering pizzas on Christmas Eve, or her victory in the culture festival race. The latter was the culmination of a lot of silly gags but I legitimately teared up when she realized she won the race. Ahhhhh, Rin, you’re the best. Without her this would be a very different and less enjoyable show.

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Add - More Dog Days'' I think this season was a little weaker than the others, besides episodes 1-3 and 8. Still very fun, still great action animation, still an import for me. But not as consistently solid as the others. It may be time to stop expanding the cast. I like Sharl a lot, but I didn’t care nearly so much about the characters in the last arc, nor about the villain’s backstory, and while he delivered an awesomely animated fight, shota bunny really needs to go away. The fanservice also got a bit more in your face and lazier, as if they had some “tentacle and/or slime” quota to fill in a few episodes. I’m okay with fanservice in a silly show like this (or I never would have gotten through the first two seasons!) but it’s getting stale now. I’m also slightly irked at how Gaul has started pushing Nanami and Rebecca out of their spots as Cinque’s equals, but the series has done a lot of other things right both in terms of female agency (fanservice aside) and making a Cinque genuinely likable MC that I can’t complain too much. Though it could easily be taken too far if the girls are sidelined any further. I’d love to see at least one more season, though! Hell just give me a massive 12 episode war game tournament with nothing going on except cool animation and the characters being adorable and I’d be more than happy. That’s Dog Days at its best. Well, except for episode 8. *That* is the best episode of Dog Days yet, and one of the best episodes of this year.

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Add - More Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka It started strong, but in the end just couldn’t overcome the gravity of its fantasy light novel origins. It never falls into the smelly pit of awfulness the pick-up artist title warns of, but it still introduces interesting female characters only to have them fall in love with the protagonist one by one, after which they’re never quite as interesting or relevant again. Lili perhaps comes out the least harmed by this, but nonetheless gets her share of “jealously clinging to Bell” scenes. This affects Aiz worst of all, and Aiz affects Bell worst of all. Bell is a generic if generally charming lead, but around Aiz he descends to almost To Love-Ru levels of grating overreactions. He’s also bogged down by Most Generic Protagonist Power Ever, which is literally the ability to one-shot whatever the plot decides is the big threat at the time. Or, in a /shocking twist/, two-shot the final boss. The story is among the most generic ever written, though it’s elevated somewhat by great character art, strong production values and scattered moments of really genuine emotional expression (Bell/Hestia in episode 3, parts of the conclusion to Lili’s arc, episode 8). I also give the anime credit (apparently the novels don’t share this virtue at all) for letting the worldbuilding come naturally, without lengthy explanations of mechanics or meaningless lore that does nothing to inform the show’s plot or characters. It’s not quite enough to hold off the uninspired and entirely predictable progression of the story though, nor the uniformly bland, lifeless antagonists. And the less said about the ending, the better – the last boss /literally falls from the sky/ in the final episode and a rushed conclusion is thrown together with a “go read the novels” non-ending and very awkward foreshadowing. This all probably sounds harsher than I feel, and 6/10 is a “it didn’t offend me and had some solid material with even a couple great highlights” rating. But I’m disappointed that in the end the well-constructed character moments were mixed in among so much uninspired harem/fantasy nonsense. It could have been much better if it dropped the romantic angle entirely from Lili, Aiz, and Syr, which would in turn have cut down on scenes of Hestia wasting her time being jealous. Ah well, it was still better than I expected.

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Add - More Durarara!!x2 Shou A strong continuation of the previous season that suffers from such a long time passing since the original aired. I don’t think I’ll ever feel as invested in it as I did before, even though there are probably at least as many reasons for me to enjoy x2 as I did the first season. The show’s strengths are the same: plenty of interwoven plot threads delivered with a stylish as hell presentation – even if the production quality took a serious hit in this season. I feel like they’re doing something interesting with Mikado’s character now. I mean, this is what would eventually happen to him, right? He’s an ordinary[?] kid surrounded by extraordinary people and deep down he desperately wants to live in their world. It’s probably the only interesting direction you can take his rather bland character, but I’m genuinely looking forward to how it goes. While the show handled its ever-expanding cast with a finesse few shows can, my favorites were, predictably I suppose, Mairu and Kururi, followed by Akane. I look forward to more of all of them in the next two seasons.

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Add - More Flying Witch Humor, atmosphere, and character interaction are the ingredients that drive any slice of life story. Flying Witch excels in humor, effortlessly delivers delightful character interactions, and manages a pretty solid atmosphere too. It may not quite have the character interactions of K-ON!, the atmosphere of Aria, or the humor of Yuyushiki – but it gets exemplary marks in all three categories regardless. They combine into without question the strongest show of the first half of the year. Honestly, I had to reach pretty far to provide a better example of humor, and I’d *still* confidently put Flying Witch alongside the funniest slice of life shows. A mixture of impeccable timing and intentionally muted reactions form the core of Flying Witch’s comedic identity, and time after time those jokes landed with the intended effect. Whether it’s the mom’s easygoing reaction to everything, Inukai’s hamster’s traumatic relationship with Chito, or the desperately funny attempt to cure Inukai, jokes in this show just don’t miss their mark. It’s as if I’m under one of Akane’s spells that makes everything feel inexplicably hilarious. Flying Witch shows that timing and reactions can deliver effortlessly organic laughs. “Rural supernatural” is my description of Flying Witch’s mood, something of a cross between Non Non Biyori’s relaxed meandering and Natsume Yuujin-chou’s parade of fantastical youkai. It’s shot through with the supernatural and the strange in ways that Non Non is not, but entirely located within the gentler, calmer side of life in ways the sometimes dramatic Natsume is not. The balance leans towards relaxed meandering but the menagerie of other-worldly beings is noteworthy: the imposing Harbinger of Spring, the ghostly waitress, the flying whale, the one who brings the night, the mysterious postman of the witchy realm, and so on. Flying Witch presents them to us largely though Chinatsu’s eyes, and as she grows more accustomed to them, so do we. Eventually they’re as (delightfully!) mundane as the show makes being a witch look. But these strange visitors leave their mark anyway, and Flying Witch would be a very different show without them. The background music really pulls its weight in conveying this mood. Most of the tracks tease a mysterious undercurrent while largely giving way to a playful beat. The titular “Flying Witch” is one good example, as is “Chito-san”. But a handful of tracks like “Haru no Hakobiya”, “Hen na Ikimono”, “Uranaishi”, “Majo no Yume”, and “Kokucho no Mai” lean the other way. It’s an effective mix of emotions conveyed through music as much as through visuals. None of this means much if the characters aren’t endearing and possessing great chemistry, but the Flying Witch cast is both of those things. It works in plenty of ways: Nao and Makoto have a really great casual friendship. Kei is a delightfully easy-going dude who the show never shoehorns into romantic nonsense. Akane and Inukai are painfully shippable. Anzu’s and Inukai’s integration into the core group is something I’d love to see developed further. Akane alternates between uncontrollable tornado and responsible older sister (when she has to be). But Chinatsu is the emotional heart of the series. Her eyes are ours, and through her we’re introduced to the world’s hidden side. Her excitement about witchery and ambition to become a witch drives the story. Chinatsu’s journey from shy kid to excitable apprentice witch who has no inhibitions about bugging this thing with questions is something I came back to over and over again when discussing this show during the season. Compare the Chinatsu who met the Harbinger to the Chinatsu interacting with the cake shop’s patrons and begging Akane to train her as a witch. It’s endlessly satisfying. This growing comfort with the supernatural is mirrored in her relationship with Makoto. They grow closer together every episode, and I feel like Chinatsu’s interest in witchcraft motivates Makoto to work harder on her own training. Whether it’s planting a garden or sewing up a new witch robe or practicing simple spells, Makoto and Chinatsu end up doing everything together. I’m not sure who or what we need to sacrifice to the witchy dark arts to get a sequel, but one is sorely needed. There’s such a clear sequel premise too – Chinatsu’s journey to become a witch, and Makoto’s to become a full-fledged one. Just keep on the flight path that’s already been established! Flying Witch surely has a ton of stories left to share with us.

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Add - More Gabriel DropOut Eschewing emotional sincerity in favor of maximizing punchline density is a trap I prefer my comedies avoid. It’s precisely those moments without a punchline that get me invested in a show, regardless of how good the humor is. A huge part of why Gabdro works is that it gives itself permission to pause the gags from time to time. The coffee shop skits are an excellent case in point. Their humor was spot on, but the two most memorable moments in the coffee shop are Vigne sincerely complimenting the coffee, and the shop owner revealing that Gab pleaded with him to allow Satania to keep a pet familiar. Neither of these scenes pull their emotional punches, and they achieve it by pulling their punchlines out. The point of Vigne’s scene is that she’s a genuinely nice demon and she genuinely enjoys the guy’s coffee and he’s genuinely moved by this. When the jokes are a dime a dozen, a change of pace turns a scene from a throwaway gag to one that’s stuck with me all season. We’re given a moment to appreciate that the characters are more than their gag archetypes. Not to make this sound deep or anything – its still a totally goofy show and it embraces that from head to toe. Audience laughter is the end goal of every episode. I just want to stress how little is really needed to make your comedy multi-dimensional. All you have to do is give your characters a moment to stop delivering jokes and take a breath. Comedy also avoids becoming stale by letting its characters break out of their established joke archetypes. Gab is the worthless NEET, Vigne is the responsible and long-suffering friend, Raphi is the problematic stalker, and Satania is the damedame chuuni wannabe villain, sort of like an even more ineffectual Ikamusume. Raphi and Gab are angels but terrible people, Vigne is a demon but is the nicest person you’ll ever meet. Only Satania actually plays the role she was supposedly born to play, although the show’s theology has a pretty chill relationship between heaven and hell so her efforts are rarely rewarded. This is an amusing and smartly executed premise, even if it’s built on simplistic “betrayal of expectations” gags. Gabdro sticks to this script more often than not. Not always though, and it’s those exceptions that keep things spicy and fun. It’s Satania finding out Raphi’s weakness for frogs. It’s Gab putting her shitty attitude (mostly) aside to play with her little sister. It’s Vigne really losing her patience at the Christmas party. It’s Raphi’s undergarment troubles putting her at a disadvantage, for once unable to execute her schemes against Satania. Satania embodies the best of both points. She’s the character the show loves to dunk on, but it does it out of love. And to be fair, she sets herself up for it all the time. Because the show loves her it makes sure that she occasionally gets the upper hand. The truly great damedame characters are like this: Natsume in Hidamari Sketch, Rin in Bakuon, Hibiki in Anne Happy, Steph in No Game No Life, Akari/Ayano in Yuru Yuri. Gabdro could have turned every Satania scene into “Raphi ruins Satania’s day for her own perverse satisfaction” and I’m sure I would have still enjoyed it. And while that’s how it usually went, every time Satania arrived at the end credits relatively intact I smiled harder than I did at any of the jokes. The show played on these expectations really well, putting Satania in a situation where she fears the worst and then turning it around at the end. We see Satania come out on top, we see Raphi actually has a weakness, and and we get a break from the normal joke structure. Even when Satania isn’t getting quite the unqualified win she thinks she is, I still can’t help but feel legitimately happy for her. Sure her epic struggle with Tapris was little more than fetish material for Raphi, but Satania was proud of her victory. And it’s debatable who the pet really is in her relationship with the melonpan-stealing mutt, but the twist of fate that brought them together was still strangely moving. In the end, Satania felt good about herself, and y’know what, that’s what matters. Gabriel Dropout is an incredibly smart comedy that balances its moods as well as it times its jokes. I’d love for more slice of life comedies to knock it out of the park like this one did, week after week.

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Add - More Gakkougurashi! What is a “normal” life when everything has fallen apart? Does it matter what restrictions you’re subject to, as long as you’re still alive? Gakkou Gurashi!’s characters all encounter these questions, and the reactions are varied: loving sacrifice, angry impatience, painful regret, fragile stoicism, reckless bravery, unthinking loyalty, blissful denial. Each one is individually compelling. Kei’s inability to cope with their de facto prison in the mall. Yuuri’s motherly leadership masking the most fragile of hearts. Miki’s guilt at being unable to follow Kei and at living on without her. Kurumi’s dangerous dedication to maintaining security no matter the risks to herself, both physically and emotionally. Taroumaru’s naive but unquestioning animal loyalty. For me, compelling beyond even were Yuki and Megu-nee, and the relationship between them. Yuki’s total denial of reality mirrors the series’ dichotomous nature. An idyllic school life and an undead-infested hellscape can co-exist as equally “real” story elements not simply because Yuki’s delusions show us a lively, bustling school environment, but because her warm smile and boundless enthusiasm create a genuine refuge for her, her friends, and us. This is why Yuuri and Kurumi are adamant about protecting her innocence after Miki arrives and challenges the status quo. They need Yuki to be smiling as badly as, if not moreso than, Yuki herself does. Miki’s disruptive entrance raises troubling questions about things the viewer would have taken at face value before: Is it really okay for Yuuri and Kurumi to leave Yuki to her delusions? Is it selfish to treat her like a good luck charm or soothing mascot character when her ignorance of the world around her brings her very close to physical harm (almost “going home”, for example) at times? Or would forcing a harsh reality on her be the selfish course of action? There isn’t an easy answer, because everyone both suffers and benefits from Yuki’s condition. Jealousy and pity and dependency and protectiveness all swirl together in the girls’ interactions with Yuki. Yuki’s condition is surprisingly resilient. It isn’t fragile like glass, irreversibly shattering when pushed past its breaking point, like during the mall rescue. It can bend, even break, but will mend itself after a good sleep and adequate distance from danger. It’s also not as all-encompassing as it first appears. Yuki repeatedly shows signs of comprehending her situation and possesses the competence to react appropriately. This climaxes in her actions in the final two episodes, when she quite literally steps through a door that has represented the boundary line of her happy fantasies. It’s a deeply moving moment. The reason Yuki is able to step through that door, the reason any of them are able to function at all, is thanks to Sakura Megumi, their teacher and club adviser. Megu-nee left a deep impression on the girls, and on me too. Her story is beautiful and tragic and overflowing with love, both in life and death. I struggle to come up with another character who so deeply affected their story despite not being alive for most of it. I’d probably have to go back to Gurren Lagann for the last comparable example. Like Yuki’s condition, Megu-nee’s fate also mirrors the iyashikei/horror split that defines Gakkou Gurashi. Her love for the girls is warm and reassuring and beautiful, but that same love nearly kills them all after her tragic fall. With the burden of having read the evacuation plans and the burden of knowing that her desire to stay near the girls after death could harm them, she’s wracked with guilt both in life and death. But all she ever wanted for them was happiness. On the balance, I think she gave that to them. She kept them together in the hours and days after the outbreak. She gave them a space where they could experience some semblance of a normal life. She gave her own life to protect theirs. She didn’t deserve to die the way she did, but that’s not how I choose to remember her. That’s certainly not how the girls choose to remember her. She’s changed their lives forever, and they will always be grateful. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t still an aching hole in our hearts where she used to be. Megu-nee, we love you. Gakkou Gurashi! may have ended, but it refuses to die. It’s occupied much of my mental bandwidth since the final episode aired, resulting in me reading the manga version of the same material (chapter 1-30) – an extreme rarity I’ve only done a handful of times. I can’t stop thinking about it, can’t stop wondering where the girls are and how they’re doing. Part of me wants to read the manga past where the anime ended, but with so few additional chapters out, I’d just be running into a brick wall of long waits between publication of new chapters. And there’s something about how Gakkou Gurashi ended that really captivates me. After being cooped up inside the school building for the entire story, suddenly they’re moving on. Graduation is a perfect metaphorical and literal ending – the whole world, or what’s left of it, is open to them. They choose life. That’s their answer.

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Add - More Gochuumon wa Usagi desu ka?? The addition of Kinema Citrus to the team didn’t seem to me like it added any real production magic (nothing matching episode four of season one, for sure), so it just continued to be a well drawn if minimally animated affair, relying heavily on very cute and striking close-ups and facial expressions. And it’s /excellent/ at those, mind you. But still, largely business as usual. Thankfully Gochiusa’s usual business is a ton of fun. There were some notable additions and enhancements. Chino’s Chimame-tai partners (Megu and Maya) played a much bigger role this season. It felt as if they were in almost every episode, and they may have gotten about as much screen time as some of the four older girls. This was a nice development not only because they’re two very fun characters, but because one of the other developments this season was Chino opening up to everyone around her a lot more. She’s still shy and has grown up a little too fast, but she makes a concerted effort to be more honest about her feelings, to laugh more easily, to smile more broadly. It’s a heartwarming transformation to watch, and I think having girls her age around all the time gave her the comfort level she needed to take those steps. Thanks, Chimame-tai! The only new character this season was Mocha, Cocoa’s sister. I thought she was fun, although as a catalyst for Cocoa she didn’t accomplish quite as much as Megu and Maya did for Chino. Still, nothing negative came from her introduction. I think it just reinforced one of Cocoa’s traits (her desire to grow up and be a good onee-chan to the girls) rather than presented anything new. Mocha was hilarious while “stealing away” Cocoa’s imouto harem though. But I think I like her subduing the older girls even more. Suddenly the onee-chans have become the imoutos, what a dramatic role reversal! Really though, it was adorable. As in most iyashikei/slice of life shows, there’s plenty of teasing at relationships in Gochiusa. And in the case of Sharo and Rize, this is actually one of my complaints about the show. Not that Sharo is in love with Rize, but that the show pushes against that line where I get a little uncomfortable at how needlessly reluctant it’s being to validate any of the relationships. I don’t want to overstate my issues with this, but it’s precisely because the story takes Sharo’s feelings more or less seriously that the brick wall named Rize becomes so frustrating. They feel a lot like Ayaya and Youko in Kinmosa, though for some reason I can’t put my finger on, I’m a bit more bothered by it in Gochiusa. Certainly they’ve not moved one inch from season one, and never will. Sigh. On the other hand, I was pleased to see Chiya and Cocoa getting so close. They have exceptional chemistry, but they also feel like an unlikely pairing. I get Sharo/Rize, it’s the flustered kouhai/cool-but-actually-girly senpai dynamic, and that’s fine (when it goes anywhere). Chiya and Cocoa aren’t an obvious pairing archetype but they really work. In season one it felt like a really incidental thing, but in season two Chiya in particular really ratchets up her Cocoa adoration. While Cocoa is less direct about it, she always looks ecstatic to be goofing around with Chiya, in a way that feels distinct from her interactions with Rize, Sharo, and the Chimame-tai. Great season overall, with a strong final stretch that raised my opinion of the series.

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Add - More Hello!! Kiniro Mosaic All of the charm and warmth and comedy returns, though without the major set pieces of the first season’s flashback and musical. Karen and Alice’s relationship was a highlight this season, both via the flashback to their youth and their time visiting England. Ayaya is still my favorite of the girls and she became even more madly, adorably in love this season, but she didn’t make much progress with Youko – such is the inescapable fate of iyashikei yuribaiting, I guess. Cast additions were kept rather minimal this season. Hello!! choose to expand screentime for characters we met in season one: Honoka in particular, but also Youko’s siblings, Mitsuki and Kouta. Couldn’t have chosen anyone better! With Alice/Shio and Ayaya/Youko pairings being set, I’ve been hoping for a long time to see Honoka get close to Karen and that’s exactly what we got. Meanwhile, Youko’s little brother and sister are pretty much the best siblings in anime. The only major new character is Kuzehashi-sensei, a young new teacher who primarily interacts with Karen and Karasuma-sensei. She also leads the show off very strong by being a major focus of two episodes, letting us meet the characters again through a new character’s eyes. Warrants a 9/10 without hesitation, for being a weekly beacon of warmth and happiness while Eupho has been beating me bloody with a nail-studded fishing rod. May Kinpatsu conquer the earth!

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Add - More JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken Part 3: Stardust Crusaders 2nd Season A step up from the meandering first half of Stardust Crusaders, if still not quite on par with the pre-Stardust arcs. Joutarou never did impress me as much as Jonathan and was totally overshadowed by Joseph. Joseph and Polnareff were consistently the most amusing characters, and I took quite a liking to Avdol too. I don’t have a whole lot to say about this show – it was a decent time-killer that was much easier to get into the mood for than most shows, even if I never emotionally engaged with it to any significant degree. Pure popcorn, I guess, but it works as that. I’ll come back for as long as they want to keep animating it.

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Add - More Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo! MEGUMIN IS REALLY GOOD Alright why exactly did I watch a “boy gets thrown into a fantasy world” light novel adaptation? ::shrugs:: I had gone through most of the season without watching a single show and this one was getting a thumbs up from a bunch of people, including those who (like me) generally don’t like this sort of show. Last time I acted on that I got Danmachi, which… ehh ended up not being great but had moments (esp eps 3 and 8). But before that I got Chaika and No Game No Life, both of which I really, really love. So sometimes it pays off! Konosuba was no Chaika or NGNL (and episode 9 was outright bad) but I liked it better than Danmachi. The secret to its success? NO ROMANCE. As is usually the case, removing harems and love triangles makes an unexceptional male protagonist at least tolerable. Kazuma was a dick but the show’s style of humor kept it from feeling overbearing. Although that brand of protagonist misanthropy still wears thin if it’s not being constantly complemented with good hijinks from the girls. Thankfully, they provided that. Well, except for Darkness, her gimmick was old as soon as it began. The other secret to its success is probably obvious from my selection of screencaps. Right now I’m ambivalent on whether I’ll watch season two, but I know I’ll give in at the first cute Megumin screencaps. She’s got one of my favorite character designs of the last few years and is just a joy of a character.

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Add - More Konohana Kitan

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Add - More Kore ga Watashi no Goshujinsama

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Add - More Kore wa Zombie desu ka?

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Add - More Kore wa Zombie desu ka? of the Dead

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Add - More Koufuku Graffiti A story about learning how to love, and (re-)learning how to be loved. This isn’t “a cooking anime”, meals are just a stand-in for the emotional bonds that form between people – a medium through which those feelings pass. Eating a good meal prepared by someone you love is a way of figuratively (and I guess partly literally?) internalizing their feelings. Working with them to prepare that meal is a way of forming those memories together. For Kirin, it’s about emotional growth. She’s much less mature and emotionally developed than Ryou when they first meet. Kirin is nervous around adults, self-conscious about her size and apparent youth, slow to make friends, and doesn’t appear to have particularly deep personal relationships with anyone. Throughout the series we get to watch her become more conscious of others’ feelings. See her chip in and help instead of sit back and passively consume. See the changes that come over her as her relationship with Ryou goes from weekend roommate to soulmate. Her growth is more subtle than Ryou’s and doesn’t occupy as central a position in the narrative but it’s just as satisfying if you pay attention to it. For Ryou, it’s about emotional healing. She’s much more reserved than Kirin, and lacks her (surface, at least) self-confidence and vigor. On the other hand she comes off as much more mature and empathetic. When we first meet her this is causing her more grief than comfort because her grandmother, the woman who raised her with gentleness and boundless, unconditional love, has passed away. Her emotions flow in a deluge towards that feeling of loss, draining the rest of her world and leaving behind a dull gray. Until the day she meets Kirin – a vibrant flash of purple sweeps across her life, and steadily, bit by bit, with Kirin’s love and everyone’s help, Ryou moves forward. Ryou’s journey climaxes in the final episode when she receives her grandmother’s old apron as a gift, shortly before Kirin formally moves in with her. Kirin, flexing her character growth muscles (and being quite pleased with herself for it), opens Ryou’s eyes with a suggestion that memories aren’t just artifacts of the past, but something you create going forward too. Even if the person you’re remembering is no longer with you Ryou’s weakness is being bound by the past. Kirin’s is in living only in a nervous present. Together, the can overcome this by living for a future together. With her friends and family near, with her grandmother’s apron wrapped around her, and above all with Kirin’s love right by her side, Ryou finally has all the ingredients she needs. Koufuku Graffiti is about as close as a show can come to a 10/10 for me without getting one. A sequel would almost certainly address that… but I’m not holding my breath. ;_;

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Add - More Koukaku Kidoutai

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Add - More Koukaku Kidoutai: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society - Uchikoma na Hibi

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Add - More Koukaku Kidoutai: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG - Tachikoma na Hibi

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449

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453

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Add - More Kyoukaisenjou no Horizon II

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457

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Add - More Madobe Nanami no Windows 7 de PC Jisaku Ouen Commercial!!

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Add - More Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha

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Add - More Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS

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Add - More Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha ViVid Less ambitious than the other entries in the series, but very good at focusing on what it does: no larger plot (so far), just cute little (and not so little) girls beating each other silly as part of their species’ elaborate mating rituals. Apart from more NanoFate and the adorable budding Vivio/Einhart relationship is how the series seems to exist purely to take the piss out of StrikerS. Lutecia’s hilarious personality shift and Garyuu fetching vegetables for dinner felt like a wonderful way of saying “StrikerS was kinda dumb wasn’t it, how about we do something fun?” And while I don’t remember anything about most of the Numbers, Nove is really great in this! She continues the tradition of adopting cute little ass-kicking girls pioneered by Nanoha and Fate and becomes Einhart’s guardian and teacher, and she’s just excellent in the role. A tournament setting is *perfect* for this series too, because it’s very good at introducing colorful new characters who we only need to pay attention to for a short time. The Saki model, you could say. We even got an ill-fated Arai Satomi character. Just run this with in the Saki model for a couple cour and I will be completely on board the whole way. While the production quality is for the most part garbage (carrying on that TV Nanoha tradition!) the content of the tournament battles was rather excellent. Even battles between characters we’d not met until episode 9 were engaging and well paced and a ton of fun to watch. But the highlight of the tournament so far is Einhart vs Corona, which was shockingly good considering how hideously out matched I assumed Corona would be. She was the quiet underachiever of the group, far inferior to her friends in raw strength and always on the verge of dropping out of competitive martial arts. Her battle with Einhart used this character premise to fantastic effect, integrating it into her battle style in very cool ways. That the fight had just over a full episode dedicated to it gives me a lot of hope that future battles will be just as good, particularly the, I assume, inevitable Einhart/Vivio clash. Bring on season two.

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Add - More Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica

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Add - More Mayoiga Lovepon is love. Lovepon is life. Lovepon is also death, but what a wonderful way to go. Mayoiga is a very flawed little thing. At times I thought it 100% understood its dumb appeal. Other times I felt it had actually convinced itself it was marginally serious story – and that’s no good. Its appeal was tied directly to how stupid it was being at any given time. Its insistence in the latter half of presenting Mitsumune, Hayato and Masaki as characters with story arcs worth telling simply didn’t work for me. They brought the crazy train – or bus – to a screeching halt. Whenever that happened, the wheels fell off the whole thing. After Lovepon carried the first half, her position in the second was regrettably diminished. While I dug all the stupid explanations of Nanaki and the goofy shit with the researcher and the reveal of the villain, none of that really made up for being asked to engage even a little bit more seriously with the material. And then in the final episode, they separate Lion and Nanko for no reason I can discern. That left a bitter taste in my mouth right at the end, and probably wound up docking the show a full point. I’d actually gotten really invested in their growing relationship. Nanko was in so many ways what Lion needed, and Lion’s trust in Nanko seemed reassuring for the latter. Maimai did a great job rounding out this unexpectedly precious trio. Then it just dissolves – while dull shit Mitsumune and his dull shit girlfriend get to stay together despite having zero chemistry. How exasperating. If you’re going to ask me to take anything seriously, make it the one thing you actually did a good job with! I really liked some of the characters. I liked its subversion of horror tropes (nobody dies!). But I guess I expected it to commit harder to chaos than it did. So I ended up somewhat disappointed in Mayoiga. I can enjoy stupid shows up until the point they ask me to take boring characters even semi-seriously. Mayoiga was not a bad show (at least not unintentionally). It just petered out in a disheartening way.

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Add - More Mikagura Gakuen Kumikyoku (TV) An enjoyable if largely unremarkable (and often amateur-feeling) show about a special high school where students battle for prestige and club funding with club-themed superpowers. Not the most inspired setting, but it's great to see an open lesbian in the protagonist's spot. While her tendencies are played for laughs sometimes, it never comes off as malicious. When she gets push-back, it's because she's genuinely over-stepping her bounds and being a (lovable) nuisance. The fact that she's into girls is never itself the object of mockery, just her hyperactive and frankly annoying (in the cutest way!) personality. For me, the show peaked in episode 8 when Eruna and Otone finally became close. They were by leaps and bounds my favorite characters and although Otone's acceptance of Eruna came rather quickly, it hit all the right notes. Episode 10 was probably the next best, as Otone's feelings for Eruna caused a clash with Seisa that took us into the final arc. While the ending was rushed it wasn't a disaster because the story's scope was kept manageable. Some hand-waving is done at the very end to establish a backstory from a previous era but it hardly matters for the anime's purposes - it's just there to set up Eruna's impetus for saving Seisa. I'm very much in camp Eruna/Otone due to their far better chemistry, even if the story sure makes Seisa Route look like True End. But it's not like the show is interested in saying anything definitive either way. So I'll stick to Eruna/Otone for life. I would be interested in seeing how everything plays out after Seisa joins the club but there's no real chance of getting more.

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Add - More Minami Kamakura Koukou Joshi Jitensha-bu Girls’ club-based slice of life shows typically manage at least a respectable minimum threshold of charm, and Minakama is no different. It is charming, but like Stella no Mahou last season it’s a thoroughly unambitious sort of charm. That’s well and good for this kind of show, but shows that try a little harder (Flying Witch, Urara, New Game, Amanchu, etc) are inevitably more memorable. Even when Minakama does shake up the status quo with a late addition to the cast (Sandy), she ends up being one of the more flat and predictable gaijin stereotypes out there. I don’t dislike her per se, but compare her to Karen and Alice in Kinmosa, or even Kate in Sketchbook, and she just feels inadequate as a character. But the recipe for a more memorable Minakama doesn’t even require a new ingredient. It just needs an extra helping of Fuyune thrown in. Fuyune is far and away my favorite part of Minakama, and I’d love an alternate take where she’s the protagonist. Like many good characters before her, she scratches a “down to earth ojou” itch for me, but she’s also the only character with a particularly interesting backstory and motivation. Hiromi is the “genki newcomer”, Tomoe is the “reliable meganekko”, Sandy is the “gaijin stereotype”, but none of them really bring any sort of history to the show. Natsumi has a short arc about picking the biking club over others trying to recruit her, and it actually undermines the silly “compete to decide who she joins” stereotype pretty cleverly, which was great. But it’s nothing you can build a show around. Fuyune is totally a character you build a show around, though! First you’ve got how physically and emotionally unsuited she initially is to long-distance biking, so there’s a clear path for character growth. And then you’ve got her motivation, which is to travel around Japan using her own two feet and document life for a bed-ridden older sister she admires. I wouldn’t say the show wastes this. Some of my favorite little touches involve Fuyune stopping to take a picture while the girls are touring. I admire how gracefully Minakama weaves these scenes in, and I felt genuinely happy every time Fuyune smiled after finding the right angle for a shot. But I wanted more. I wish Minakama went all-in with Fuyune as the lead. I don’t mean to play this up like it’s some disastrous failing of the show. I’m super chill about the content of my slice of life anime, and it’d be absurd to demand a motivation or history for every character, as if it were a tragic drama. But a story like Fuyune’s feels like such a juicy emotional hook that it’s a shame it wasn’t front and center. The show had bigger failings anyway, particularly in its production. Filtered photographs for backgrounds aren’t something I’m necessarily against, because it looks great when it’s done well. But even under good circumstances it can be hard to get the characters to look natural in it, and if production starts to slip, you get sheer nonsense like this. Between the backgrounds, 2D characters and 3D bikes, that may as well be three separate shows – all of them fairly ugly. And of course the CG for biking scenes was just awful. While in theory something that’s part 2D and part 3D is better than something that’s all 3D (the less 3D the better), it’s small consolation when you get a 2D head on a 3D body that looks and particularly moves like some alien abomination. It’s for this reason that I’m not importing the show. Normally I’d say it just barely qualifies for an import due to my strong desire to do what I can to support slice of life anime. But I’m applying a CG penalty and dropping it from my imports. I’ve compromised and imported the manga instead. I guess I had more to say about Minakama than I expected, even if a lot of it was complaining! But it’s a solid slice of life club show, with a relaxing atmosphere, at least one pretty great character, and a few moments like the night-time race where the whole cast displayed some good chemistry.

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Add - More Monogatari Series: Second Season

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Add - More Morita-san wa Mukuchi.

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548

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552

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563

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566

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Add - More Natsume Yuujinchou: Nyanko-sensei to Hajimete no Otsukai

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Add - More Nejimaki Seirei Senki: Tenkyou no Alderamin While Alderamin gets caught on a few snags (some of the MC’s personality traits, a few overly convenient plot developments, a near-total lack of animation, cliche ineptness from the military higher-ups), most of that is fairly superficial, so I’m not going to go into detail. It matters, and did hurt some scenes, but the core of the show was very solid. Solid in a genre that I’m not particularly drawn to by default, granted, but solid enough that on the balance I definitely enjoyed it. Alderamin’s core strengths were the Ikta/Yatori relationship and the story’s moral ambiguity. While Ikta’s flirtatious attitude was one of the consistent annoyances, looking back on it I can’t say there’s actually any romance in the show. Nana makes a few comments that you can put down to what we know of their matriarchal culture, and it’s not relevant to her character arc in any case. Kanna seems a little taken by Ikta, but it doesn’t get to go anywhere (for… reasons…). Chamille’s reactions raise an eyebrow a couple times, but while she cares about him her interest seems to come from a very different place. Maro, for all Ikta’s flirting, and as flustered as it occasionally makes her, is far more interested in doing her job than nurturing romance. That leaves the female lead, Yatori. Emotional intimacy between Ikta and Yatori is depicted without having to code everything romantically. Trust is what binds them. It’s a kind of love, perhaps, but one that’s being laid into a deeper, more meaningful foundation. They describe themselves as two hands working in tandem and that’s borne out repeatedly in their actions towards each other. The excellent flashback episode skillfully contextualized their relationship, but the best single moment is probably Ikta’s intervention to pull Yatori out of her adrenaline high after she takes out the unit attempting to kidnap Chamille. Given that trust is the defining emotion between them it’s fitting that Ikta and Yatori sitting back to back is one of the show’s defining visuals. Given this is a show outside of the genres I default towards liking, keeping me interested was aided greatly by the moral ambiguity of the actions of all involved. The Imperial family and bureaucracy aren’t just corrupt (which would be par for the course) but as Chamille points out in the rather brilliant ending, it’s rapidly eroding. It not only can’t be saved, but it shouldn’t. She openly asks Ikta to work with her to lose the war – but to lose it in a way that preserves Imperial culture while wiping away the ossified political order order. That this will to some extent involve prolonging a war claiming thousands of lives with no hope of traditional “victory”… well, Chamille is determined to take that burden on her young shoulders. This is born out militarily as well. After the office training arc, the next arc is for all intents and purposes a war of genocide against a reclusive mountain tribe. While our focus characters make clear they’re not happy about it, and the worst atrocities are ordered by a commander who gets his comeuppance, this isn’t a story of a rebellion against orders. Ikta and friends execute the war to its ultimate end because they’re soldiers, and that’s what they do. Ikta works where possible to minimize loss of life, but he’s not trying to be a maverick hero. He’s just trying to protect the people he cares about. Alderamin ultimately feels like a prequel arc to a series we’re never going to see. It’s the story of Ikta’s reluctant rise in prominence, but it makes no attempt to end on a triumphant note. Hell, it ends with the Imperial military securing a tactical retreat via shady negotiation tactics. The country is on the brink of ruin and has no hope of stopping the opposing forces. We close out in a country facing irreversible decay. In the end, survival is the only accomplishment. It’s not glamorous, and it’s certainly not conclusive. But I think that ended up being one of the most interesting developments Alderamin had to offer.

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Add - More New Game! Take one high school club anime, add one to ten years to every cast member, stir vigorously. Pour the mix into one medium-sized corporate office environment. Garnish with a 50/50 mixture of an adult’s exhaustion and a newbie’s enthusiasm. Bake for 45 minutes. Serve in your cutest dishes. Enjoy your New Game!. Instead of being a first year high school student joining a new club, Aoba is an 18 year old high school graduate hired on as an entry-level character designer at Eagle Jump, the developer that created her favorite game. While detractors initially made a lot of her lack of experience and how “unrealistic” that was, in reality the original mangaka worked at a game development studio and this “hire new, teach on the job” approach is actually quite realistic. It really makes you wonder how many of Aoba’s experiences mirror Tokunou Shoutarou’s experiences. I’ve always said that I enjoy slice of life shows not because they remind me of a past I’m nostalgic for, but because most of them instead offer a heartwarming faux-nostalgia for a past I didn’t have, but much prefer. The unreality is the point, and I’m content watching the characters on screen grow together and be happy, nevermind that reality offers something much more ambivalent. New Game! effectively transitions this feeling into an adult workspace. It certainly acknowledges the cynicism corporate environments breed (“Full-time Employment is a Loophole in the Law to Make Wages Lower…” is an A++ episode title), yes. And those of us who have worked office-type jobs for years can smile and nod tiredly at that sort of thing, which is fun in its own way. But fundamentally, New Game! maintains for me the same faux-nostalgia high school slice of life does. It’s incredibly fulfilling to see Aoba’s meet her idol Yagami Kou, to see her eyes light up when her first character model is approved, to see the pride and satisfaction she feels when her game is released to the world. These triumphs keep her passionate and excited about her job. They’re certainly not feelings I know from my job. I do what I do because it’d be a huge hassle and risk to try to find something else, and because it pays the bills comfortably enough. Not because I feel any sense of accomplishment from what I do. Maybe part of the difference is that Aoba is working in a creative field, while I’m not. She’s more likely to feel a sense of accomplishment and ownership over what she does. Regardless, I’ll never have Aoba’s experiences, but I can completely understand why they’re so desirable, and I feel so happy and grateful that she’s finding success. Aoba’s happiness matters to me. Aoba’s progress happens under the watchful and compassionate eye of her superiors at work, particularly Kou. The gap in age between Aoba and Kou (18 to 25, seven years) is larger than is possible in school settings. While they’re written similarly to a first-year kouhai/third-year senpai dynamic, it’s more accurate to see Kou as combining the teacher/club advisor role with the emotional intimacy of being a fellow student. She is both a boss (teacher) and a coworker (classmate). The Aoba/Kou dynamic generates much of New Game!’s emotional appeal and would itself be reason enough for me to desperately want to see more slice of life with adult casts. Watching Aoba settle into her job and create things she’s proud of would be a fine enough show on its own, but the ways Kou grows from the experience are just as satisfying. While confident in her own skills, Kou lacks any confidence in her ability to lead a team. It’s just not what she ever expected to be doing (WELL SHIT, RELATABLE MUCH?). Aoba understands Kou, and it’s Aoba’s faith in her that gives Kou the confidence to accept her role. The final scene of the show is dedicated to precisely this moment and is among the most magical of the whole season. If Aoba is the sudden push that Kou needs to take the next step, Rin is the gentle embrace she’s needed to keep going these last few years. Their relationship, so clearly romantic in all but name, leaves me craving more adult couples even more than I was before. That’s another bonus of New Game!’s setting – you just don’t get this in high school slice of life. I got slightly spooked early on when a romantic moment between these two was derailed by a cliche weight gag. But that was soon forgotten and their relationship grew into one perhaps only surpassed by Teko and Pikari in Amanchu!. Rin is the perfect “loving mom” character, and that was especially on display with her handling of Nenecchi during the pudding theft episode. Which leads me to the unexpected character also at the heart of this show… If Nenecchi had just remained Aoba’s cute phone buddy, giving Aoba a chance to recap her feelings at the end of the episode, that would have been enough. I didn’t dare hope that she’d become such a major character. I knew she joined the debug team from reading a little of the manga, but I thought it was something that’d come and go in an episode or two. While Aoba went straight to work, Nenecchi continued on to college. She provides a unique perspective on Aoba, telling us things her coworkers wouldn’t know. Her conversations with Aoba remind us that Aoba is still only eighteen, and is struggling to grow up rather suddenly, without the buffer the college years provide. Nenecchi’s feelings towards Aoba are a mixture of pride, jealousy, protectiveness, surprise, and affection. As goofy as Nenecchi can be, she’s able to tell us a lot about Aoba that we wouldn’t otherwise see. I really didn’t expect Nenecchi to become such a major character, let alone one that gave us so much more insight into the cast – not least of which being almost everything we know about Umiko, thanks to their strange and amusing relationship. Thanks, Nenecchi! So that’s New Game!. All that’s left now is to hope we one day see New Game+. As Aoba would say, 今日も一日がんばるぞい！

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Add - More Non Non Biyori Repeat I don’t usually have a ton to say about iyashikei shows, and less about their sequels. They’re about the experience, not any thematic analysis. You live inside of them for a short time, and reluctantly say goodbye. Non Non Biyori evokes that feeling as well as any of its contemporaries. The “repetition” in the title refers to this season’s events happening simultaneously with the first season’s. It’s neither sequel nor prequel, it’s a… simulquel? Think the first couple seasons of Hidamari Sketch. It’s a really neat idea and provided for some great side by side comparisons early on, though after a few episodes the references to season one thin out and you quickly forget what it was doing most of the time. Non Non Biyori’s serene rural landscapes don’t convey much sense of the passage of time outside of the changing seasons. Each day is largely like the next. But within those largely similar days, small moments are what stand out. Non Non Biyori is excellent at that as well. Koma-chan fleeing in terror from the world’s scariest teruterubouzu. Hotarun letting loose and acting adorably spoiled when she’s at home with her mom. Koma-chan being too short to capture a cell signal. Nattsun trying desperately to fake her way through a conversation with Hotarun about a show she’s never seen. Koma-chan and Hotarun getting lost in the woods at night. But Non Non Biyori has always reserved its most gentle, beautiful, and inspired scenes for Renge’s moments of self-discovery and growth. Her life lesson in mortality with the tadpole shrimp was touching, and as a bonus showed a thoughtful side of Nattsun we’re not used to seeing. But her scenes with Candy Shop brought me to tears, particularly when she learned to ride a bike. Moments like those are precisely what elevate slice of life shows from enjoyable diversions to stories that demand a deeper engagement from the viewer. Moments that make you feel like these characters are worth emotionally investing in. They’ve given you so much, and deserve a little piece of your heart in return. When the show ends, it might ache a bit, but the memory remains.

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Add - More Nyanko Days Sadly there’s not much I can say about a show that ran for roughly 20 minutes all told, except that I think it’s regrettable such an adorable show was so short. That just ain’t right. We need so much more time to see Yuuko and Azumi’s love blossom. ;_; Shout-out to the mangaka for drawing most of the good Sakura Trick fanart available on Pixiv too. How can I not support someone enlightened like that? NYANKO ♥ IS ♥ LOVE ♥

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Add - More Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu In a genre that uncritically pats its MCs on the back, Re:Zero distinguishes itself by asking, meaningfully, what would happen if the world rejected their preconceived notions about who they are and what the world owes them. Subaru approaches his abrupt arrival in a new world by the usual script: apprehension masked with genre-aware humor, quickly giving way to a sense of excitement, of opportunity. It’s the essence of the genre: you were a nobody out there, but you can be somebody here. This is a world that Subaru thinks he understands. He survives a run-in with scummy thieves, meets a pretty girl, and it’s going according to plan (mostly – she saved him, not the reverse). That is, until his insides become his outsides and he’s lying dead on the floor. If Subaru’s setbacks were purely external in origin, Re:Zero would have been largely unremarkable. But he made many bad situations worse through his own actions. Only as the failures mount does his tendency to quickly bounce back to a persona of flirty over-confidence give way to something much darker, much uglier. His character arc drags the audience through genuinely unpleasant territory, but it works because the show’s intentions always seemed to be clear. Subaru isn’t rewarded for his arrogance. This. Is. Crucial. It’s the linchpin of the show and culminates in the most powerful scene of the entire run: Emilia’s renunciation of him after his shockingly petty behavior in front of the royal selection committee. Subaru’s collapse into raw desperation in episode 7 and Rem’s radiant smile in episode 11 were both powerful show-defining moments, but it’s this scene that ultimately sold me on Emilia, on Subaru, and on the fundamental aspirations of the show. I gave my thoughts on the matter here so I won’t restate them all, but it was a deeply moving moment. Part of it was the catharsis of seeing a Subaru at his ugliest get slapped down unambiguously. A larger part of it was seeing Emilia assert herself in a way she had unquestionably earned. It also has some important things to say about not projecting your unfair expectations onto others, a message I don’t think the show entirely follows through with, but it makes an effort. It’s a scene I wish we could gift to a hundred other heroines. My feelings on the second half of the show are… complicated? Where do you go after making a very conscious statement about pampered protagonists by rejecting every deeply-held belief of your own lead? Re:Zero goes with despair, then deeper despair, then unfathomable despair, then an angelic light of redemption, a reset from zero, a hard-won comeback, and a triumphant finale. (Yes, I have heard the anime chose to end in a very, hmm, “particular” spot, right before something else happens. But I don’t want to know anything about that, given how a sequel is likely.) Eventually, yes, Subaru was going to triumph. But I don’t think this necessarily negates the show’s critique on isekai conventions. Even when I did not like quite everything about how the latter arcs played out, I feel the show took pains to show us that Subaru had changed. That he earned his turnaround. That he succeeded by relying on others, not protagonist exceptionalism. But I do of course have criticisms. Many of them, but we’ll stick with the big ones. While the broad strokes of Subaru’s redemption were solid, I still don’t feel convinced by his relationship with Emilia, which is a problem given it’s his primary motivation. The finale stretched credulity regarding the depth of Emilia’s feelings for him (I’ll accept his feelings for her, however grudgingly). Her “nobody has loved me before” spiel isn’t enough to sell me. I also have serious misgivings about how this episode partially walks back her justified and anger in episode 13. By no means should she be apologizing for that, regardless of what Subaru did right afterward. For a show that tried so hard to eschew convention, the reconciliation with Emilia felt so very average. It suffers doubly for being compared to the much stronger romantic chemistry with Rem. Subaru and Rem survived a lot together, and Re:Zero doesn’t lock down their feelings for each other until quite late. By contrast, his relationship with Emilia feels like it’s at roughly the same spot Rem and Subaru were in episode 11. We’ve been sold an incomplete product. I could say so much more on this but I really just want to bring it up as an example of a broader structural issue the show had from the White Whale onward – it lost some of its mystery, some of its spark. It stopped surprising me as much, stopped defying conventions as much. The tricky thing is that I don’t have great suggestions for what it could have done differently on the big picture level. In details I could poke at a lot. But the overall trajectory seems… right? Defensible, at the least. Despair creates exciting twists, but it isn’t a complete story in itself. For the story to move, Subaru had to successfully overcome the most immediate internal and external threats, and that’s what happened. If we do get a season two, I want to see the following. Do not confirm or deny anything if you’ve read the novels, I want to be free to speculate without getting hints: • Felt totally fucking up the status quo, without becoming the tragic puppet of a hidden hand. I want that spunky little brat to have as much agency over her own destiny as possible, because she’s been buffeted around by events thus far with little control. And she’s still my favorite character in the show, so I’m biased. • Rem finding a new passion outside of being Subaru’s #1 fan. While I think she’s become a much freer, happier, outgoing person since expressing her feelings to Subaru, I also understand where the “trophy wife” (or I guess mistress now) criticisms come from. I think that’s quite reductive criticism and doesn’t reflect her character very accurately, but I totally see where the fear comes from and I’d hate for Rem to fall prey to that. • Ram to take on a bigger role, hopefully one that doesn’t revolve around being completely subordinate to Rosewaal. His absence from most of the show mitigated that this season, but their scene together early on (and their quite literal master-servant relationship) leaves her under a deeply unbalanced power dynamic. • Emilia being more directly involved. She’s a complex and interesting character, my second favorite overall actually, but she spent most of the series off-screen. I was disappointed at how passive and apologetic she was in the final episode. Her entirely warranted indignation in episode 13 was the highlight of the show and walking that back at all concerns me. Did Re:Zero really take its own messages to heart? To be clear I don’t think the show has treated her badly, but I think her potential remians almost entirely untapped. Since we aren’t getting my dream scenario of Emilia escaping romance with Subaru entirely, I at least want her to be an equal participant with him in the coming events. • More Betty. I don’t care how, just gimmie. • Interestingly, I don’t have any idea what I want from Subaru. The main thrust of his character arc has been largely resolved, so they need to do something different with him now. But the most important thing is that he retains the growth he’s managed thus far. Just don’t rehash past struggles and we’ll be good, probably? I guess the theme is more explicitly exercised agency for the ladies of the cast. They actually have quite a lot of structural power over Subaru given their socio-political roles and/or physical/magical abilities. But the nature of the time resets limits how much power they can wield over the narrative. All in all, I have respect for Re:Zero. Not everything it did worked, and it had to work very hard to sell me on a genre and premise I’m not inherently disposed towards liking. But it pulled it off. It didn’t quite make the case for a BD import from me, but I would without question watch a season two.

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Add - More Sansha Sanyou Sansan is a slice of life show that maybe cut the slice a little too thin. Something about it felt insubstantial, and not in the “light and breezy” way I want a slice of life show to feel. While I found it consistently watchable, it always felt lacking in direction. “But slice of life means not having to have a direction!” you say. Sure but I guess I mean that Sansan never carved out its own niche. Anne Happy and Bakuon had more outright missteps than Sansan but they also had a sense of identity that I didn’t feel as strongly from this. Pretty animation aside, it comes off as something I won’t remember for very long, because I’m not sure I can describe to you a particular attribute that made it special. If you asked me to describe the aspect of Sansan that distinguished it from its peers, I’d actually come up with a negative: half the secondary cast was unusually annoying. While Kou, Nishiyama, Kondou, and Sonobe were great, we also got saddled with some really dismal characters: Yamaji, Yuu, Sakura, Hajime, and Sasame. The last showed brief sparks of promise in her interactions with Youko, but by and large they were all unwelcome distractions in every scene they invaded. The best way I could spin them is that they gave the better characters a chance to do some heavy lifting, usually pretty successfully. Sonobe was a good foil to he exasperating Yamaji. Futaba delivered some of her best lines when crushing Hajime and Sasame’s hopes. Youko’s one or two more intimate scenes with Sasame were a saving grace. There was really nothing the show could do to redeem Yuu/Sakura scenes though. I guess the “sing into a bucket” scene was pretty funny? Sansan had some of the quiet character moments that -really- endear me to these shows. Teru and Kou’s conversation when walking home in episode two. The girls stopping by Youko’s place to cook a meal with her. A few Nishiyama scenes. They feel sparser than in other shows though. More of those moments would have really helped the show click with me harder. And it’s not purely a shipping thing, but I do wish the characters had felt closer to one another. Nishiyama and Teru were in a classic frenemies position but it just kinda simmered without going anywhere. Nishiyama is my favorite character in this show, but unlike Rin or Hibiki (who I liked for similar reasons) I don’t think the show provided her a equally strong support structure which meant that her scenes lacked the same punch. I do think she show did a good job rewarding Youko’s gradual opening up to her friends with some nice scenes between her and Teru/Futaba though. As I’ve said before, Sansan is the kind of show I actually -liked- even if my comments always come out negative. Maybe it’s because episode one blew me away so hard and I expected the rest to live up to it, or maybe it’s because the delightful character animation felt like it was just dressing up a rather plain core. I know I liked it because I’m -importing- it, although I’d probably describe it as not-quite-import tier if I didn’t feel compelled to support most Kirara anime adaptations. Still, even when I’d put a show near the bottom of the slice of life totem pole, it’s still a competently executed slice of life show and as such it’s so inherently My Thing™ that it’s hard to turn me off completely. As long as you avoid injecting bad het romance or something similarly catastrophic, I’m probably going to enjoy the show!

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Add - More Schoolgirl Strikers: Animation Channel Io-chin, banzai! Schoolgirl Strikers is about fighting generic looking interdimensional monsters or whatever but none of that is it’s not as important as Io and Mana, who are probably going to be one of my favorite ships of the year. (Also Io is Sawashiro Miyuki, instant points in my book.) That they’re trapped within one of the most paint-by-numbers mobage adaptations is unfortunate, but the show isn’t completely without merit. Merits like Io and Mana getting oh so close to kissing. Or Io’s and Mana’s butts. Or Io and Mana exercising together. Or Mana being extremely happy about Io in a bikini. Or Mana clinging to Io. I guess there were some pretty fun episodes in there too, particularly the Procyon Pudding episode with Amane getting super tsundere for Io. Though the following episode with the giant fish was good too. And the character designs (in spite of, or because of? the sometimes ridiculous outfits) were really nice, when the show kept them on model. But for the most part it was really about Io and Mana being together. As Mana so eloquently puts it: So one good ship aside, SGS was watchable but forgettable. Ange Vierge, Sengoku Collection, or even Zettai Bouei Leviathan it is not. I didn’t dislike it, but I also have a hard time drumming up any significant opinions about it at all. As a test, I’m writing this before I even see the last two episodes. If I leave these last few sentences in, it means the finale elicited no reaction worthy of editing the post. We’ll see!

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Add - More Senki Zesshou Symphogear GX I'd only completed the first season of Symphogear (which I thought was okay) originally, but when CR put up G and GX I gave it another shot. Overall I do like the second and third seasons better than the first, and I'd give G a slight edge over GX. Symphogear makes liberal use of cliffhangers (even when there's nothing substantive to hang from, it'll find a way) so not watching this week to week took a lot out of that aspect of it, but it was definitely worthwhile. Symphogear's philosophy is straightforward enough: "Believe in justice, and hold a determination of fist", as GX's subtitle so, um, elegantly puts it. This is unquestionably a "if punching wasn't enough, PUNCH HARDER!" kind of show and when it's holding true to that is when it's at its best. Passion is what Symphogear does best; sometimes that involves Hibiki suplexing space shuttles, Yuuki Aoi screaming out her lines like her life depends on it, or just two characters holding hands really tightly. I don't mean to imply that the characters are only passionate. It's just that they're typically at their best when they're roaring in anger or betrayal or excitement, striving to surpass their limits to save the ones they love or stay true to their ideals. Symphogear isn't a sleek and maneuverable aircraft, it's a big dumb rocket, punching through the atmosphere through sheer explosive force, held on its course with willpower and a prayer. It stalls out only when it throttles the engines back, and most of the missteps here involve Hibiki in GX. In some ways GX's weaknesses stem from it trying too hard to be a "Good" show, when it was already a "good" show. Hibiki's reservations about using her power and awkward daddy issues brought me to the brink of outright disliking her character partway through GX, which is such a shame. There was also very little flow to her character arc. I swear she "overcame" her issues at least three times only to have that progress momentarily halted by the show's obsessive need for cliffhangers. Hibiki did pull through in the end, and I still like her a lot, but not before much eye rolling on my part. Another example of pulling back on the insanity and suffering for it was offing the two craziest (read: best and most interesting) Autoscorers first. Garie and Micha were outstanding characters, and killing them off relatively early gutted the antagonists' side of the story until Carol stepped up (and was joined by Dr. Ver, creating a hilarious dynamic of two villains screwing each other over). Carol eventually did pick up the pieces, but the show really could have offed the two Autoscorers I haven't even bothered to remember by name first, and left Micha and Garie for the end. There was plenty I liked about Symphogear of course. I figure everyone who has ever written about Symphogear has said more on Chris than I could say. Chris discovering the joy of singing for others at the school event was one of the highlights of the series. But while she's my one of my favorite characters, by the end of GX I was more fond of Kirika and Shirabe than anyone else. There was a raw, honest passion between them that no other pair matched. Hibiki and Miku came close at specific moments, but Miku being so removed from most of the pivotal events limited that. Chris was too tsundere, Tsubasa too kuudere, and Maria too proud to open up to anyone else consistently. The intimacy between Kirika and Shirabe clicked with me in a special way the others didn't. They're inseparable, each unable to fathom life without the other. I loved that about them, loved how unquestioningly fundamental the existence of the other was to their own. Bonus points for having the worst (aka best) outfits and being oh so metaphorically and literally edgy with their guillotines and buzzsaws and brooding angst and all that. I think GX might have had better highlights on the whole while G was more consistent. G also had the "bigger" finale. How do you end a show on earth when the previous season concluded things in space? Even Hibiki's fist was smaller in GX. Bah! Buuuuut, still, Symphogear has never wanted for cool over-the-top endings, and Carol was a markedly more interesting final boss than Large Monster Thing in G. With sales increasing each season, I guess it's just a matter of time before season four. Maybe I'll finally get my wish and anime ja nai girl will become a Symphogear?

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Add - More Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu My feelings echo what I’m reading from others. Very well executed, subtle and nuanced, offering much that is uncommon in other anime… yet emotionally distant to a point that I had difficulty feeling the show in the ways I like, beyond general “appreciation of craft”. I’m not someone who can enjoy a show based purely on its craft. I need to connect to characters emotionally, and Rakugo struggled there. Structuring an entire show as a flashback puts weighs on both your characters and audience. Inevitable outcomes dampen my emotional response in a way not entirely dissimilar to spoilers. When you approach a story this way, the unpredictable becomes a precious commodity. And no one in Rakugo was more unpredictable than Miyokichi. She was some of the best and also the worst the show had to offer. Not in the choices she made and whether they’re right or wrong; I think her situation is far too difficult for me to pass judgement here. But Miyokichi complicated events in ways that were good for the story. Her genuine love and desire for Kikuhiko clashing with her independent streak and inability to trust men after a life of being used and discarded was engaging, powerful conflict. There’s a whole show to tell about her life, without a doubt. She was the most dynamic character in the cast, while also being the most trapped by her circumstances. This peaked in ep8-9. The conversation at the festival with Sukeroku and parting with Kikuhiko created both potential and peril for her, and my immediate reaction was concern. I’m disappointed those concerns were validated. For her primary role after this to be to abandon her child and get herself and Sukeroku killed in a fit of emotion felt like a waste of a fascinating character. Nothing about how her final scene was executed worked for me. It’s not just that she died, I accept that. But it fell so flat. I’d always felt that she had a twisted sort of agency before this. Downtrodden and tragic for sure, but harboring a spark of resistance and ingenuity that mirrored Japan’s fraught post-war modernization. What’s frustrating is I’m not entirely sure how else her story could have ended. In the end, inevitability won out, and she was mostly just there to be the reason Sukeroku is dead and Kikuhiko is haunted by the past. Ehh… And yet, that scene came at the tail end of the two best episodes of the show. Kiku’s trip to find Sukeroku and bring him back was the best thing to happen to him and it brought a (much) younger Konatsu into the story! Never did the show, and certainly Kikuhiko, feel more alive than in those two episodes. I’d gladly watch a whole show about Konatsu and her two dads, but fate had other plans. The rakugo performances were generally excellent, which counts for a lot. Yotarou’s ten minute performance in ep 1. The clear distinction of styles between Kiku and Sukeroku portrayed in ep 6. Kiku stunning the audience as the shinigami. The duo performing together for a young Konatsu. Sukeroku’s final performance. Over and over the show was able to use rakugo to convey the emotions the characters had trouble expressing otherwise, without coming off as clumsy or overly obvious. That I felt most connected to the characters when they were telling stories about other people in some ways reiterates my complaint about the show’s emotional distance, but if you’re going to have a show named Rakugo, giving us great rakugo performances is essential, and this show definitely does that. Now to hope that season two gives Konatsu the focus she deserves! Though if she doesn’t get to perform rakugo I will be platinum mad. Either way, she and Yotarou won’t have the dagger of inevitability hanging over the heads in the ways Kikuhiko, Sukeroku, and Miyokichi did, so I feel like their story has significantly greater potential, if that’s what we’re going to get. I’ll be watching it.

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Add - More Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu: Sukeroku Futatabi-hen I’ve said before that Rakugo was I show towards which I felt respect rather than emotion, hence my lukewarm feelings about season one. I had higher hopes for season two for a number of reasons, above all that we left the past behind and finally had a chance to see the characters’ futures. Flashbacks carry an air of inevitability which tends to dull my emotional reaction to what’s happening. Futatabi-hen’s shift to focus on the present offered much sharper emotions, and a sense of anticipation divorced from a predetermined outcome. Futatabi-hen built upon and found new significance in everything that season one established. Yota and Yakumo’s struggle over the future of rakugo felt more poignant than Yakumo and Sukeroku’s clash over the nature of the art. Konatsu’s struggles and triumphs were far more emotionally satisfying than the caged, tragic life led by her mother. New chapters were written for rakugo’s future, rather than telling a tale of inexorable decline. Given she was my favorite character in the first season despite her limited role, it’s no surprise Konatsu was my emotional anchor into the show this time. Nearly every scene that resonated with me involved her in some way: doing Jugem in her first public rakugo performance, her role in the truth behind her parents’ death, her final reconciliation with Yakumo in his last moments, her growing comfort in her relationship with Yota. Konatsu and Miyokichi are mirrors that reflect their respective seasons’ deeper natures. Miyokichi, as headstrong and proud as she was, lived in a time and place that would never acknowledge her full worth and humanity. She lashed out by defying social convention, but in the process hurt those around her and left behind a motherless child. The inevitability of her fate reflects the inevitability of the whole first season. It’s not that Konatsu has it easy, but society had nonetheless changed. Her debut as the first woman in the history of professional rakugo is only the capstone on all this. Konatsu has all of her mother’s pride, but none of the inescapable tragedy. She’s able to obtain both love and a happy ending, largely on her own terms. While she too has to contend with the desires of demands of men, and owes much to both Yakumo and Yotarou, she is not irreversibly trapped by her womanhood in the way her mother was. She has the opportunity to assert herself in ways that aren’t completely self-destructive. Both Konatsu and Miyokichi are strong women, but while Miyokichi’s strength raged hopelessly against the walls of her prison, Konatsu’s strength shouldered a career and a family and a personal passion. Being strong does not mean being solitary. Yotarou awkwardly charms his way into her life not because she can’t handle being a single mother, but because she shouldn’t have to. He loves her, and she him (when she cares to show it), and he loves her child – whoever its father may be. Together they are a charming, funny, eccentric couple brimming with life. You could contrast Yotarou with Sukeroku in similar ways to Konatsu and Miyokichi, but I think the biggest difference is that Yotarou’s carefree personality was ultimately grounded in a stronger sense of direction than Sukeroku’s. The both loved rakugo deeply, but Yota could always look towards Konatsu, Shinnosuke, and Yakumo to keep him grounded when he walked off the stage. Futatabi-hen is a story about storytelling, and it metacomments on its own structure by revealing, in its most shocking moment, that the climax of the first season was a complete fabrication. It was an incredible moment to realize that Yakumo was lying, and so many of us (myself included) never stopped to question the truth of a tale woven by a man who assumed fictional identifies for a living. Perhaps it’s the specific nature of rakugo, wherein the same classics are memorized, told, passed down, and retold word for word that made me accept every word of Yakumo’s story. But despite his distaste for introducing new stories to the canon, he’s rewritten his own story for Konatsu’s sake. A rakugo performer trains for years to embody the characters he portrays, but when the curtain goes down and the lights come back on he’s able to return to himself. Yakumo never allowed himself that luxury. Every second of every day he played the villain in a tale of his own making, and the weight was unbearable. It’s a mercy that he was able to find peace with Konatsu before the end. I didn’t find every episode of Futatabi-hen equally engaging, and a lot of it still wasn’t really My Thing. But when it was good, it soared to some of the most impressive and unforgettable heights of the season.

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Add - More The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls Where the first Idolmaster anime was working with deeply established characters with half a decade under their belts, the cast of Deremas carried a lot less baggage, for better and for worse. This means that while Animas made a lot of (generally warranted) assumptions that we knew the characters, and started with a fully-formed agency, Deremas makes few assumptions, and takes establishing its characters as a top priority. It pulls it off beautifully. The strength of the first cour is undoubtedly its ability to take a large cast and systematically make everyone one of them unique and interesting and worth caring about. It’s not entirely even – Kanako and Chieri for example are still significantly less developed than the rest thus far – and the assumed protagonist trio actually fade into the larger group rather than clearly stand out. But the former can be dealt with in time (and it’s not like Animas didn’t have its less-developed characters [hi Azusa]) and the latter is more a testament to how well the cast is developed as an ensemble than a criticism of the New Generations crew, all of whom I find rather charming (especially bedhead Shimamu). The care with which the show managed its characters was strongest in Miku, Ranko, and Minami’s stories. Miku’s increasing frustration at being passed over for debut and subsequent struggle to form a unit with her polar opposite (Riina) was a real rollercoaster, providing both the show’s early emotional set piece and the most interesting unit-formation story by far, with probably the most interesting result. Ranko’s initial inability to express her personality (see how the Producer assumes she wants something dark and scary) was handled well but even better was her stepping up to support Love Laika when Minami was unable. Ranko is the lone solo act among the Cinderella Girls, so keeping her integrated with the larger cast by supporting Anastasia and Minami was a brilliant move. And where to start with Minami? I’d pegged her from the start as doomed to be by far the least interesting character but then, unexpectedly, somehow, SHE BECAME THE BEST!? She’s one of the unlikeliest picks for group leader, but she nailed it. She has no real equivalent in 765Pro, because while Haruka was the emotional center of the group she could rely on much stronger administrative backup from P-san, Ritsuko, and Kotori. The 346 girls have much less to work with. P-chan, much as I love him, is just not as capable or naturally empathetic as Animas P-san was. Chihiro could have filled Kotori’s role, but we simply don’t see a lot of her. Minami, then, takes on much more individual responsibility than any of the 765 girls had to, and while it’s not easy on her she settles into the role and becomes the linchpin of the group. Her despair at missing out on most of the climax concert made for probably the best-executed and most emotionally powerful scenes of the show. So how does it stack up to Animas? The one area it clearly lacks compared to its predecessor is visual quality. There are a few stand-out scenes/episodes, a few embarrassingly bad scenes, and a middle that’s “okay”. Big step down from Animas, which is one of the best productions out there. But overall it’s simply a very different first half from Animas’. It starts with a different sort of cast and has to do different things with them. If I were to pick one story aspect where I think it lacked, that would be on the business/administrative side. One of Animas’ strengths was the shockingly good P-san, the lovable Kotori, and the stellar role Ritsuko played as an idol-cum-new producer. Even Pres Takagi’s occasional interjections displayed his intense faith in his idols, which they in turn appreciated. On the other hand this allows more focus on the idols dealing with each other, which I’d generally mark as a big plus. But I’m hesitant to count that as a big edge over Animas, because Animas did quite a lot of *that* too, and P-san was so good that even when he solved problems it felt natural, because /that’s literally his darn job/. It did not feel at all like a harem MC monopolizing all the interaction with the girls. So point to Animas overall on this one too. Even so, I feel like Deremas does have the potential to get on the same level, if the second half cleans up the visuals and builds on the first half’s engaging character writing. If it’s as good at utilizing a fully developed cast as it was in developing them in the first place, we’re going to see some real magic in a few weeks. I’d like nothing more than for it to fully earn that 10/10.

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Add - More The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls 2nd Season The second season that was never intended to be a second season. Was the wait worth it? Production-wise it managed to settle on a consistent baseline quality, but it was pretty conservative with its highlights. It still had some very nice scenes, but never attempted to reach Animas’ heights. Much more importantly though, did the story and characters deliver? There I have no reservations, my answer is a loud and satisfied “Absolutely!” If the first half of Deremas introduced the characters and gave them their first major victory at the festival in episode thirteen, the second half was about how to cope with success and the new demands that come with it. And I think its ability to develop this aspect of the story so well owes a lot to the “antagonist” of the second half, the 346 idol unit executive producer, Mishiro. Animas’ Kuroi was a comic book villain, a one-dimensional “bad guy” concocting one-dimensional schemes purely to give the 765 girls hurdles to overcome. That such moving and charming scenes resulted from this was just the show’s natural flair for flawless execution, not a sign that Kuroi himself was remotely interesting character. Mishiro by contrast is not one-dimensional at all, and she’s certainly not trying to destroy the Cinderella Project. She is, in her own way and according to her own experience and ideals, trying to reshape it into something new, something better. Those “hurdles” feel much more thoughtful and organic. Mishiro is not, by any definition, “evil”. Her motives aren’t even purely financial (though she is responsible for that too), there’s a distinct creative philosophy behind the course she pursues. She has a vision. The idols of course chafe under the new restrictions, and not every decision Mishiro makes is correct. She pays too little attention to the girls’ emotional needs and aspirations in her pursuit of the perfect idol group. (Can’t fault her aesthetic choices though.) But that’s where Deremas’ second half’s shines. Neither Mishiro nor the girls have a monopoly on being correct. Mishiro values results, not mindless yes-men. She relents on her demands when the Producer and his idols deliver on their promises via alternate methods. It’s about compromise. It’s about reaching beneath your surface appeal to dig up something better. It’s about thriving in unexpected environments (new units, new career focus). It’s not about the girls steamrolling all opposition and getting their way by saying “we’re the good guys, you’re the bad guy”, because there is no bad guy. Just conflicting views with a balance somewhere in the middle. Animas touched on the theme of coping with change in Haruka’s arc, but Deremas takes it farther and presents it as the central theme of the whole second half. It results in a more focused story. Of course these broader themes only work because the characters they explore are so damn charming. Riina and Miku fully realize their bond not by ceasing to change after forming Asterisk, but by challenging themselves even further to join with Natsuki and Nana. Minami and Anya, the most stable of the units, deal with being temporarily split apart for solo work. Their mature reaction to this test is an inspiration for the less confident girls. Mio, Rin, and Uzuki struggle to define their relationship amid constantly shifting obligations and new opportunities. Anzu and Kirari, the senpai of their respective units, seek to understand what they mean to each other. It goes on and on. Cinderella Girls is excellent. Is isn’t Animas, and it doesn’t need to be Animas. It stands confidently on its own. I miss them all already.

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Add - More Urara Meirochou I didn’t need an urara to divine that Urara Meirochou would be my kind of show, that much was a given. But the difference between what I feel are merely “passable” slice of life shows like Stella or Sansan or Minakama, and the more deeply affecting ones like Koufuku or Manabi or Flying Witch, is never something I can see ahead of time. It makes sense though – we’re talking about shows that are explicitly attempting to extract something special from the deliberately mundane. Everything is nuance, and that’s something you can’t judge until you’re well into the show. Urara is a bit more fantastical than most slice of life shows due to its setting, and unlike many it has a fairly concrete goal in mind (advance up the tiers of urara, find Chiya’s mother). But that’s still (mostly) window dressing for the compelling relationships that form among the apprentice urara at Natsume-ya: Koume, Nono, Kon, and Chiya. And those relationships are beautiful and delightful. As far away as Urara is from Yuyushiki on the slice of life spectrum in many ways, it really nails the latter’s understanding of group intimacy. While they sort of pair off naturally (Chiya/Kon, Koume/Nono) in a way the Yuyushikis didn’t given their odd number, fundamentally the Urara dynamic is a foursome. It’s unmistakably a group effort. We see it in Nono’s worries that the “calamity” divined to befall her will hurt the others, to which Koume replies that’ll just split it four ways. We see it in Chiya’s declaration that she’ll challenge the gods themselves if they dare to take Kon’s power away, and Koume and Nono’s reminder that they’re always by Kon’s side too. We see it in the urara rank advancement exam being a team effort, rather than the triumph of an individual. Having to share both feelings and living arrangements with girls their age is a new experience for the young urara of Natsume-ya. It seems quite deliberate that they all come from lives of relative isolation: Chiya is literally a feral girl from the mountains, Koume grew up a wealthy and sheltered only child, Nono has rarely strayed far from her older sister Nina’s side, and Kon has spent years studying alone with only divination texts for company. Maybe it’s no wonder that once they were thrown together as apprentices with the same aim, they immediately took to each other despite their clashing personalities and styles. Without realizing it, without thinking they needed it, they craved this camaraderie. It wasn’t always easy, and they each have their doubts. This is particularly evident in Kon’s conflicted feelings towards Chiya. It’s fair to say Kon has studied the hardest, and Chiya the least (as in not at all), before they met. And yet Chiya’s ease of access into the world of the gods puts Kon’s admiration for her in opposition to her sense of what’s fair. What she doesn’t know is that this ease of access is a mortal danger to Chiya, but nonetheless Kon puts these doubts aside with the help of Nina and the other girls. She realizes that an individual’s strength is everyone’s strength at Natsume-ya. And as they grow closer, we see one of the show’s core strengths: the way it normalizes the intimacy between the girls – and between girls in general. I already wrote at length about episode six in the mid-season post and everything I felt then still applies. That one slightly awkward instance ends up being a strong message in favor of how normal it should be for Saku to be Nina’s soulmate. It’s expressed in the loving smile Koume gives a flirty Chiya and Kon, while leaning her head so casually against Nono’s. And these are some very touchy-feely girls. Rubbing bellies and faces, casually using hair as a blanket, licking and licking some more, holding hands, feeding each other, sleeping and bathing together, being there to catch each other when they fall, and of course lots of hugging and hugging and hugging and hugging. That’s not to say that skinship is inherently meaningful. There’s no lack of throwaway girl/girl fanservice even in het harem anime (cue onsen boob groping), so that alone doesn’t do it. But while Urara has some fanservice that exists more or less for its own sake – which I don’t object to, for the record – it directs far more effort to building up the sense of intimacy among the girls, and the reassuring sense of comfort they develop towards one another. It’s this comfort that elevates Urara above the usual baseline shippiness of slice of life subtext. Urara isn’t a romance per se, and doesn’t depict a “falling in love” story. But it relies so much on romantic coding that I’d definitely put it at a pretty good spot along the yuri spectrum. While I think only so much can be read into OP or ED lyrics, the ED is very explicitly mirroring the themes of the show. It’s titled go to Romance>>>>> and the visuals are all about Chiya, Kon, Koume, and Nono trying to find one another as the lyrics sing about falling in love, searching for your soulmate, imagining kissing them. And then it quite literally ends with the girls finding each other! Urara’s ability to convey a sense of intimacy within a group really is exceptional. Most anime struggles with a single pair, but Urara pulls it off effortlessly with four. It’s well and good that the girls share such strong bonds, because there’s no end of external challenges to face down, particularly when the gods get involved. The forays into the supernatural show us a mix of aesthetics that Urara handles very well. While it’s mostly lighthearted slice of life, there are moments that quietly challenge our perception of Meirochou. Urara juxtaposes the cute and the creepy, the mundane and the supernatural. Divination rituals lead the urara down twisted corridors towards hidden alcoves in which a strange new reality lurks. You can’t get there normally, but with the incantations of an urara, those secrets can be unlocked. Sometimes these secrets may have been better left alone. Chiya and Kon’s taboo underwater divination turns downright disturbing. But it’s Chiya who has the most intense run-ins with the gods as the object of both their protection and loathing. As the anime leaves off, we still don’t know why these beings hate Chiya, except that her mother is the ultimate source of their rage. It’s a tantalizing glimpse into future conflicts, and I’m impressed at how well the serious aspects of the story meshed with its slice of life aspects. Many shows have trouble pulling that off, but Urara builds up to it by weaving it in along the way. Divination does not all of a sudden develop a darker side when the ending requires it. There was always something unknowable and overwhelming about it, and urara have always felt vulnerable and small in comparison to the powers they’re harnessing. Additionally, situating Chiya’s run-in with the resentful spirits within the Urara rank-up examination prevented it from coming off as disappointingly incomplete. Even if we don’t know where that story will lead, we were still invested in seeing them become 9th ranks, and that’s a fitting climax. Urara’s visual style deserves special recognition because I was in love with its look from the first moments. The character designs are hugely appealing in the, for lack of a better word, punipuni fuwafuwa way that made me such a huge fan of Namori’s designs for Yuru Yuri. The animation designs nicely capture the original Harikamo designs in a way better suited to animation, mostly by simplifying the shading (Urara is unusually visually intricate for a 4koma). The anime also accentuates each of its characters with floral motifs which afford the already distinct designs even more unique personality. Where the anime shines even more than the appealing designs is in its colors and lighting. It’s not just the vibrancy of it, because even scenes with minimal colors look great. It’s the way all of these elements combine to create variety, yet consistency. Meirochou itself manages to feel claustrophobic and dizzying while also inviting and alive. The town’s most recognizable landmark is its enormous tower, perpetually surrounded in a swirling mist and located in the heart of the 1st District where the most accomplished urara live. It’s a looming mystery, a guidepost by which to orient yourself, and a goal to reach. I love Meirochou’s architecture and atmosphere, I love its challenges and opportunities. It earns its name of “Labyrinth Town”, but it’s a maze in which getting lost for a while really doesn’t seem so bad. You’re like as not to encounter something or someone special along the way, just as the Natsume-ya girls have. Meirochou is a wonderful case study of place informing the mood and message of a story. The more I write about this the more it reinforces for me just how special a show Urara was. While the absolute highest tier of Kirara adaptations remains Sakura Trick, Hidamari and Yuyushiki, Urara ends up alongside Koufuku Graffiti and Gakkou Gurashi among the best slice of life shows in recent years. With the girls having successfully secured their 9th rank advancement, the scale of the journey ahead of them only seems bigger. Unfortunately the manga is the only place their story will continue… but wherever and however that goes, we know they’ll be doing it together.

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Add - More Wakaba*Girl Wakaba Girl is "cute girls doing cute things" in about the most straightforward manner possible. A series of vignettes captures the life of a naive rich girl and her three socioeconomically "normal" friends. The episodes are short (1/3rd length) and exactly what you'd expect. It isn't ambitious, but ambition is a very narrow-minded way to evaluate a series. That's not always the point, and Wakaba Girl succeeds by being charming from moment to moment. That those moments are short and simple doesn't particularly matter.

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Add - More Yuri Kuma Arashi Too flawed to be a favorite, but it clawed its way into becoming a very worthwhile show. Episode by episode, scene by scene, minute by minute. It culminated in a truly beautiful finale, and with that as my last memory I’m going to remember the show fondly. Its weakness was that its characters were shallow. They were largely imagery and catchphrases, and while I understand the director’s abstract, highly symbolic style lends itself to that, it doesn’t really allow (at least in this particular case) me to feel like I know the cast very well. Not in one cour anyway – and that is a problem, the show felt too short for its ambitions. Lulu was the only character who felt fully fleshed-out in the way I want my characters to be. She felt like the only main character with true agency. The only one that made her choices because she wanted to, rather than because of “Destiny”. It’s not even that I didn’t like Ginko or Kureha. I liked them a fair bit, and there were a lot of fun secondary cast members too. But that Lulu should have ended up standing out so much is less a testament to her greatness (she is great!) than to the lack of competition she had. I think laser girl and mecha-bear’s single scene in the finale end put them at roughly the same level of emotional investment as I had in a full cour of Kureha and Ginko interactions. That’s a problem! But the show was ambitious, in a way I respect. Dealing with sexuality, both in terms of the protagonists’ homosexuality and the show’s sexually charged imagery, is never easy. It tends to either follow typical heterosexual romance cliches or serve as cheap titillation that doesn’t support any larger thematic backdrop. Yurikuma Arashi however is sexually charged from head to toe, ears to claws. Most of the imagery is built around this, and character motivations are tied to it. The bears, Yuriika and Ginko in particular, are driven by a love manifesting as intense lust, a desire to completely possess another both body and mind – to *consume* them. None of this is used simply to spice up a scene with nip-slips and fondling, it’s used because Ikuhara chose sexuality as the language through which the characters speak to each other and themselves. Flawed, underdeveloped, ultimately shooting for the moon and falling short. But well worth your time, and it was certainly worth my import. Intense and ultimately respectful explorations of sexuality are rare in anime, let alone between young women. There’s definitely something here even if you’ve got to apply a lot of polish to see the shine. Gao gao!

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Add - More Yuru Yuri San☆Hai! San Hai seems to mark the point where more Yuru Yuri stops being financially viable and we’re back to zero successful active yuri anime franchises. Sigh. But it was a truly wonderful parting gift, and getting to three seasons in the first place would have been unthinkable at the start. Because I was a big fan of the first two seasons I won’t say “third time’s the charm”, but it’s certainly the best Yuru Yuri has ever been! It was evident in the Nachuyachumi OVAs that the tone was shifting a little. Less frantic, slightly more melancholy, a bit more subdued. And this ended up being a great change! It’s still hilarious, the characters are still unique and expressive, and the seiyuu performances are as good as ever. But I really appreciate when comedic slice of life shows slow down a bit. I’ve always felt that character-driven comedies get better when they dial back the punchlines and let scenes end with characters simply sharing a moment. The relationships from the first two seasons naturally got a lot of play this season, and that means my favorite development this season was how often it paired up characters who rarely if ever interacted previously. Sakurako and Kyouko is one great example. Because Kyouko is the irresponsible troublemaker of the group she doesn’t get to play a senpai role very often. Putting Kyouko alone with Sakurako (the only character derpier than herself) casts her in a different light. Sakurako idolizes Kyouko in all the ways that Kyouko jokingly self-aggrandizes herself. It’s hard to tell if this is more an ego trip or source of amusement for Kyouko – probably both. But it really does give her a chance to shine in episode eight, when she’s hanging out at the game center, setting Sakurako up for the slam dunk on the UFO catcher game. It’s a small moment, but shows like this live and die on the small moments. For example, the totally unexpected and very welcome development of Chizuru. She was easily the flattest character of the first two seasons, but she gets two dedicated scenes in this season. The meeting with Kaede on a park bench did wonders for softening Chizuru’s presentation, and was followed up in the next episode by her opening up to two of her classmates, showing how she took Kaede’s advice to heart. It’s amazing what treating a character as more than a one-off gag can achieve, huh? Then there’s Yui and Ayano. Damn there’s a lot going on beneath the surface there. Kyouko has always been there to mediate their interactions, and they’ve exchanged many a sympathetic glance of mutual understanding over Kyouko. But when they’re alone together they’re stripped of that Kyouko filter and what results is this delightful bumbling attempt to converse about… what? It’s the Yuru Yuri Bechdel Test, can two girls who love Kyouko hold a conversation that isn’t about Kyouko? They do manage though, awkwardly bonding over a shared appreciation of bad puns and an understanding that they actually have pretty similar personalities in some ways. There being this really vague tension over Kyouko just spices the interactions up a bit. It’s like a love triangle that’s actually interesting and not defined purely by romance. I’ve only plucked a few examples from many. So many. San Hai was composed from start to finish of moments like these. And it has Akari. Akari is one of my most beloved characters ever. She is a treasure to all of humanity. We even got less “Akari is so forgettable” jokes this time, which I was pretty happy about! They’d run their course, honestly.

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Add - More Two Car

-

TV

1/12

17, 17d 17, 17d

329

Add - More Tytania

-

TV

2/26

08, 08d 08, 08d

330

Add - More Ueki no Housoku

-

TV

1/51

05, 05b 05, 05b

331

Add - More UG☆Ultimate Girls

-

TV

4/12

05, 05a 05, 05a

332

Add - More Un-Go

-

TV

1/11

11, 11d 11, 11d

333

Add - More Utawarerumono: Itsuwari no Kamen

5

TV

9/25

15d, 15 15d, 15

334

Add - More Venus Versus Virus

-

TV

3/12

07, 07a 07, 07a

335

Add - More Virus: Virus Buster Serge

-

TV

1/12

97, 97d 97, 97d

336

Add - More Wake Up, Girl Zoo!

-

ONA

1/10

14d 14d

337

Add - More Wake Up, Girls!

-

TV

4/12

14a, 14 14a, 14

338

Add - More Wellber no Monogatari: Sisters of Wellber

-

TV

1/13

07, 07b 07, 07b

339

Add - More White Album

1

TV

8/13

09, 09a 09, 09a

340

Add - More Wolf's Rain

-

TV

7/26

03, 03a 03, 03a

341

Add - More World Destruction: Sekai Bokumetsu no Rokunin

-

TV

2/13

08, 08c 08, 08c

342

Add - More Yakitate!! Japan

5

TV

51/69

04, 04d 04, 04d

343

Add - More Yakushiji Ryouko no Kaiki Jikenbo

-

TV

2/13

08, 08c 08, 08c

344

Add - More Yoake Mae yori Ruriiro na: Crescent Love

-

TV

2/12

06, 06d 06, 06d

345

Add - More Yojouhan Shinwa Taikei

-

TV

1/11

10, 10b 10, 10b

346

Add - More Yosuga no Sora

-

TV

3/12

10, 10d 10, 10d

347

Add - More Yozakura Quartet

-

TV

2/12

08, 08d 08, 08d

348

Add - More Yume-iro Pâtissière SP Professional

4

TV

7/13

10, 10d 10, 10d

349

Add - More Yumeria

-

TV

5/12

04, 04a 04, 04a

350

Add - More Yuru Camp△ Season 2

8

TV

5/13

21, 21a 21, 21a

351

Add - More Yurumates

-

OVA

-/1

352

Add - More Yuugo: Koushounin

4

TV

6/13

04, 04a 04, 04a

353

Add - More Zero no Tsukaima F

2

TV

5/12

12a, 12 12a, 12

354

Add - More Zombieland Saga

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TV

2/12

18, 18d 18, 18d

TV: 320, OVA: 20, Movies: 1, Spcl.: 3, Eps: 0, Days: 30.69, Mean Score: 4.2, Score Dev.: -3.09