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 [...]
Last time on Usagi Drop, the hot divorcee whose son Rin was friends with had fallen ill, possibly having been infected by Rin while helping take care of her. I’m not sure where they can go with this – surely we’re not going to get another episode about how people sometimes get sick and then [...]
I hear Usagi Drop is ending soon. More to the point, I hear it’s already ended, but I’ve been busy with school and haven’t been keeping up on watching it, so I still have two episodes to go to catch up. Two episodes probably isn’t long enough to do a compelling arc where Daikichi fights [...]
Last episode on Usagi Drop, Rin’s mom got a chance to sneak a peek at Rin, and it seemed to have triggered some maternal instinct in her. Combine that with the fact that Daikichi did not end up officially adopting Rin, and there could be trouble brewing. I mean, maybe I’m paranoid, but it just [...]
Last time on Usagi Drop we successfully dealt with Daikichi’s sister’s midlife crisis. She probably won’t be bothering us again. So we have some new crisis to look forward to, possibly a 1/13th life crisis from Rin. When you’re six years old crises are just a way of life, the world is large and you [...]
Last time on Usagi Drop Rin had started 1st grade and made friends who taught her ninja tricks. Not much continuity to build off there, we probably still have an episode or two of slice-of-life coming to us before the next major event. Maybe if we’re lucky we’ll get an episode more focalized from Rin’s [...]
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 episode on Usagi Drop, Daikichi decided to call up Rin’s mother and, I dunno, chat with her? I am not seeing how this will possibly end well. I mean, best case scenario, she is like “yeah I took off because I wanted to enjoy my youth, have fun raising my child! toodles”. And then [...]
Last episode on Usagi Drop, the protagonist had moved to a different, presumably worse, job in order to make time for raising Rin. Which makes this episode a perfect time for Rin’s mother to swoop in and try to reclaim her. Or maybe she’ll wait until Rin finds a new preschool and makes lots of [...]
Last episode on Usagi Drop, the protagonist was wondering about Rin’s mother. Maybe that was just a throwaway comment, and we’re just going to see more struggles to find Rin a preschool to attend and stuff of that nature. It seems a little early to force that sort of confrontation, doesn’t it? I mean, usually [...]
