A thoughtful response to current anime.
2011 has ended, as years often do. Soon the new year’s anime will be starting; I haven’t taken a close look at them, but I’ve heard there isn’t much to be excited about. So rather than worry about the upcoming year right now, let’s take a moment to stop and reflect on the year that [...]
This is it, the last episode of Hanasaku Iroha. It seems like in the last episode they managed to persuade the landlady not to shut down Kissui Inn after the Bonbori Festival, but if the show ends anyway, there’s not a big difference to us, the viewing audience. I guess it’s the difference between a [...]
Last episode the staff of Kissui Inn was getting rebellious and refusing to wind down their operations in advance of closing. It’s a gutsy move, but I wonder what will come of it. The landlady has stated her intention to close after the Bonbori Festival and she’s the sort of stubborn person who would refuse [...]
Last time on Hanasaku Iroha, Ohana wound up back in Tokyo through various plot machinations, where she came face to face with Kou-chan. This is bad. If they start comparing stories, they might realize that neither of them had actually been intentionally dumped by the other, they just each jumped to conclusions on account of [...]
Last time on Hanasaku Iroha, we learned that Kissui Inn was being shut down. I mentioned this possibility at the beginning of my post for episode 18, but I anticipated it as a result of Enishi wasting all the inn’s money on that movie scam. It seems more like the landlady is just sick of [...]
Last time on Hanasaku Iroha there were actually quite a few plot points in the air. There was a wedding in the works, or perhaps not in the works, since the groom was surprise-disinherited. Minchi and Ohana were fighting over Tohru, or worse, not fighting over Tohru. They set off an all-out War of Passive [...]
Last episode on Hanasaku Iroha was the culture festival, where Minchi basically came out and professed her love to Tohru, and he basically rejected her. You could argue he’s being dense, but it is said that there are none so blind as those who won’t see. He’s not interested in Minchi as anything more than [...]
Last time on Hanasaku Iroha, Ohana’s school was preparing for its culture festival. Minchi, as a professional chef, was tapped to lead the cooking group for her class’s cafe, but she had very particular opinions on how things should be run (no scrubtier dishes like omelette rice, obviously, that would be an insult to her [...]
I’m heading back home tomorrow morning, so I hope to be back to my regular somewhat-irregular anime blogging schedule then. I have watched some episodes of currently airing anime while I’ve been here, so here are some brief thoughts on them, almost twitter-style. Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu Episodes 5 +6: Funny enough. The jokes [...]
Last time on Hanasaku Iroha, Enishi had been ripped off for a bunch of money by some shady filmmaker. People seemed to think it was a big deal, but the landlady didn’t think it was a big enough deal to stop it, so I dunno if it’s actually going to cause a huge impact in [...]
