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Northlander
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I haven't gotten to the second episode yet, but the first episode struck me as a particularly bizarre Truman Show moment; the SECOND the male lead set his foot back in the old town, one person after the other just popped out of the woodwork to hint about how awesome it would be if he took over his father's udon shop, be that sarcastic old grannies to even random tourists who were there to specifically look up that udon restaurant.
I'm (somewhat mirthfully) trying to imagine an episode where he tries to leave the town, but all these bizarre coincidences would keep happening and preventing him from doing so. |
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Parsifal24
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Episode two was stronger because it didn't go for the easy solutions of "conveniently" getting Souta spoiler[back together with the girl he had a crush on in High School] and overall I just love that yes they have a guy who is 30 in an Anime. While oddly one of my favorite parts is not the main Anime but the ending segment for the weird in universe children's show that exists.
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AksaraKishou
Posts: 265 Location: End of the World |
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A lot of people say that spoilers ruing the whole experience, but it was this review that made me want to check both eps out xD
Guess this is the 2nd anime i'm watching this season, |
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Hameyadea
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In a second consecutive Season, Nakamura Yūichi is playing the single father(-figure, in this case) raising a single child with food being a major theme.
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SHD
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And including the drama CD for the manga "Papa to Oyaji no Uchi-gohan" released earlier this year, it's his third role of playing a single father raising a young child, with food being a major theme. I'm sensing a pattern here... (There's also Clannad where he played, eventually, a single father raising a young child, not much emphasis on food, though.) |
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Gina Szanboti
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The opening strains of the OP remind me of another series, but I can't quite put my finger on it yet. The character designs make me feel like I'm watching Handa-kun: After Story. I'm astonished there's virtually no overlap in staff between this and Handa-kun or Barakamon.
It looks like they're going for the trickster aspect of tanuki mythology, at least in an oblique way, where the trickster changes the lives of people who are actively resisting change. Souta all but says this at the end of the episode. To tell you the truth, I was as suprised as Souta was that Poco was a boy. I was convinced from the first episode he was a girl, until the reviews and comments said otherwise, and I was wondering how they knew. Anyway, this looks like it's going to be fairly by-the-numbers, but charming to sit with nonetheless. |
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