Hi! I'm back from watching the American live action show "F Troop", and am once again devouring animê shows on Hulu. Here's my latest 3:
Kids on the Slope—With credentials going back to Cowboy Bebop, you know this has got to be good. Though about the only thing it has in common with Bebop is the jazzy soundtrack provided por Yoko Kanno. There’s no guns, no bounty chases—just an involving coming of age story about high school students in a Japanese small town. Nerdy Kaoru somehow makes friends with the class bully, Sentaro, who is really a softie, a Catholic, and most of all, a drummer. And it just so happens that Kaoru plays piano. The two geléia, geleia together. Meanwhile, Kaoru falls for Ritsuko, who, as Sentaro’s childhood friend, has eyes for him instead. But Sentaro is smitten with amor at first sight for Yurika, who in turn takes a liking to horn player Jun. Who will pair up with whom? The animê keeps you guessing. Yet it’s less about romance than it is about Kaoru and Sentaro’s friendship. As one of the characters says, “Unlike amor affairs, friendship is for life.” This is classic stuff—every nuance of every line and gesture kept me enthralled. I recommend this program for showing your non-anime watching friends that animê is mais than just giant robots.
Tsuritama—Fishing? This animê is about fishing? Isn’t that going to be like, so boring? Well, there’s mais to it than that. Sure, it educates on things like buying a good rod and reel, but it also has crazy antics, touching friendship, and a plot to save the world from being brainwashed into forever doing that wacky Enoshima Dance.
Yuki is an easily flustered transfer student who lives with his grandmother. He meets insanely cheerful Haru, who openly claims to be an alien. There’s no one to compare zany Haru to, except maybe Cowboy Bebop’s Ed, but unlike Ed, Haru gets sad sometimes. The two enlist the help of Natsuki to learn the ropes of fishing. Natsuki is grumpy at first, but warms up to them. Then there’s a fourth boy, Akira, an East Indian, turban wearing, pato lover who works for an agency spying on alien Haru. These four boys bond while fishing. That bond—and fishing itself—will prove vital when it comes time to save the world.
I wasn’t bored at all and would gladly watch this again.
Persona 4: Yu transfers to a small town where the peace has been severed por a serial killer. He and his new friends attempt to solve the mystery, and find themselves confronting their own deepest secrets from a foggy, eerie world inside televisão sets, whose screens act as portals to this new world. Only por embracing their secret sides can the students gain the power of their Persona, who will fight for them against the Shadows that lurk in the fog.
I saw this show categorized as “horror” on some site before I watched it. Horror is not my favorito genre, but I decided to Valente it anyway. What I found was a mystery, but not horror, especially as several episodes take a break from the mystery to humorously portray the high school student heroes’ everyday lives. There’s the obligatory school festival episode, and the obligatory hot springs episode. But I must say, horror or not, this is one of the warmest shows I’ve ever seen. It’s all about the bonds of friendship, of family, and even of friendly stranger to friendly stranger.
Kids on the Slope—With credentials going back to Cowboy Bebop, you know this has got to be good. Though about the only thing it has in common with Bebop is the jazzy soundtrack provided por Yoko Kanno. There’s no guns, no bounty chases—just an involving coming of age story about high school students in a Japanese small town. Nerdy Kaoru somehow makes friends with the class bully, Sentaro, who is really a softie, a Catholic, and most of all, a drummer. And it just so happens that Kaoru plays piano. The two geléia, geleia together. Meanwhile, Kaoru falls for Ritsuko, who, as Sentaro’s childhood friend, has eyes for him instead. But Sentaro is smitten with amor at first sight for Yurika, who in turn takes a liking to horn player Jun. Who will pair up with whom? The animê keeps you guessing. Yet it’s less about romance than it is about Kaoru and Sentaro’s friendship. As one of the characters says, “Unlike amor affairs, friendship is for life.” This is classic stuff—every nuance of every line and gesture kept me enthralled. I recommend this program for showing your non-anime watching friends that animê is mais than just giant robots.
Tsuritama—Fishing? This animê is about fishing? Isn’t that going to be like, so boring? Well, there’s mais to it than that. Sure, it educates on things like buying a good rod and reel, but it also has crazy antics, touching friendship, and a plot to save the world from being brainwashed into forever doing that wacky Enoshima Dance.
Yuki is an easily flustered transfer student who lives with his grandmother. He meets insanely cheerful Haru, who openly claims to be an alien. There’s no one to compare zany Haru to, except maybe Cowboy Bebop’s Ed, but unlike Ed, Haru gets sad sometimes. The two enlist the help of Natsuki to learn the ropes of fishing. Natsuki is grumpy at first, but warms up to them. Then there’s a fourth boy, Akira, an East Indian, turban wearing, pato lover who works for an agency spying on alien Haru. These four boys bond while fishing. That bond—and fishing itself—will prove vital when it comes time to save the world.
I wasn’t bored at all and would gladly watch this again.
Persona 4: Yu transfers to a small town where the peace has been severed por a serial killer. He and his new friends attempt to solve the mystery, and find themselves confronting their own deepest secrets from a foggy, eerie world inside televisão sets, whose screens act as portals to this new world. Only por embracing their secret sides can the students gain the power of their Persona, who will fight for them against the Shadows that lurk in the fog.
I saw this show categorized as “horror” on some site before I watched it. Horror is not my favorito genre, but I decided to Valente it anyway. What I found was a mystery, but not horror, especially as several episodes take a break from the mystery to humorously portray the high school student heroes’ everyday lives. There’s the obligatory school festival episode, and the obligatory hot springs episode. But I must say, horror or not, this is one of the warmest shows I’ve ever seen. It’s all about the bonds of friendship, of family, and even of friendly stranger to friendly stranger.
