Oh how about this one.
After watching this anime: GOD DAMN THE FEELS
Story: Take barakamon and add a fantasy twist with a raccoon. You would get this really. I just love how poco is slowly but surely changing souta lives around by using the flashback at the end of the episode showing how much his father loves him and you are not alone.
A good slice of life endure you to it's world.
But a great slice of life changes the life of the characters and the perspective of your life and it does deliver.
Art and animation: The oil paint/ watercolor and crayon really suit this kind of setting as the show bring a new type of art style into anime as it felt is going to kid orientated but is a great refreshment to the seinen genre
OP/ ED and OST: The opening bring you into the story of the world looking at visual seeing souta lives being split a part as his father totally reject his career choices and poco reminds him that his not alone and the lyrics of the song make me want to press the replay button over and over again. While ending theme tells about much the family care about souta telling him not to cry but to be happy as there is a bright future. The OST is a suiting guitar country lay back music which does suit the type of show where we are in a rural setting.
Characters: You all know I have to talk about poco first. Poco is just amazing just amazing. There's a reason why I would place Poco being the best male character in 2016. Not all might from boku no hero academia, not sakamoto from sakamoto desu ga, not Satou from Ajin but Poco .The way he bring Souta understanding that his parents love him by using some flashback is a great message not to Souta alone but to us to talk to your parents... They'll understand your career choice and will support it if they truly love their child. Although Souta father disagree at first (Like typical asian parent) he soon realize how proud he is to Souta. I'm glad Poco not only change Souta lives around but the other characters as well. Like, Rinko(Souta older sister) as she knows how to be a proper mother when her child come or Nakajima (Souta childhood friend) which at the start hated his father as well like Souta but with the power of Poco, He is able to see how much his father truly love him. The other characters did play an important role in the show. For example, shunsuke (the mung), the badass grandma that teaches poco how to shoot watermelon seeds like a machine gun, Rinko , Nakajima as they are all here to change Souta lives slowly and at the end he did develop into a great father to poco. Nozomi (Souta childhood crush daughter) acts like an elder sister to poco where she does an important part in the show as she is the one who take care of Poco and play with him.
Enjoyment: Love it... I love the setting of it, I love the characters, I love the life lesson they place in there. I love how relatable Souta is to me having a parents that doesn't want to accept what type of job you want to do. I love the gao gao chan. At first glance I though was stupid they put it in but after all the tears shred in most episode it's totally needed as you need something to cheer you up after some sad episode. I also love the fact that the last episode came out on christmas and say "Hey, do you want a happy christmas?? Well too bad because we are going to make you cry this year". THE FEELS ON THE LAST EPISODE WAS TOO MUCH... THE FEELS... POCO COME BACK!!!
Also we got the explanation of the tanuki part even though the original sources material is still on-going. Am I'm right RE:ZERO??
Recommendation: Watch it. Is heart-warming, comforting and just a great show to watch. One of my favorite show of the fall season 2016 and also my pick for anime of the year along side with cheer danshi (another fantastic anime) .
Other recommendation include the obvious barakamon where they is a similar plot point without the fantasy part. Next, we have once again the wolf children ame and yuki where they share a similar twist where the kids are animal children but not raccoon but really wolf hence the tittle having wolf.
Average score of 9.8/10. Wow I never though another anime can beat cheer danshi which I gave it an average score of 9.6/10.
