This week in anime
1. The final episode of Ao no Exorcist was unsurprisingly underwhelming.
2. The first episode of Kimi to Boku was just as boring as the first chapter of the manga. But I got Manga!Boy x Pretty!Boy vibes from the manga, I'll probably pick it back up if that ever goes anywhere. Otherwise there's really no way I'm gonna spend time watching more of ( Read more... )
2. The first episode of Kimi to Boku was just as boring as the first chapter of the manga. But I got Manga!Boy x Pretty!Boy vibes from the manga, I'll probably pick it back up if that ever goes anywhere. Otherwise there's really no way I'm gonna spend time watching more of ( Read more... )
Not understanding people is one thing, but I'm getting pretty tired of the "I can't tell them about the book of friends" and "I can't tell my family that I can see yokai." Again, it's all probably viewer refresher, but from my end, it sounds like he's trying to convince himself even though the right answer is clearly otherwise. Since he bangs around the idea that he can't tell the Fujiwaras about his abilities, I'm still holding out hope that the ultimate moment in this show is him actually TELLING them. SO many of his companions have told him that they can't "Be a real family" until he is open with them (wow, does this ever sound like Kare Kano, or what?) and that's why episode 16 was so beautiful to me, because Natori lays it all out for him very bluntly. "You are deceiving them."
I did pick up the Mushishi manga a while back (because it was at my library, woot!) but I couldn't make it through the first volume. Then again, I wouldn't have been able to make it through the first chapter of Natsume... that art is even worse than Oofuri. In that it is bad but also boring. At least Higuchi's anatomy flounders are interesting.
So you think I should give the Mushi anime a try? That the manga was episodic is what turned me off. Without something overarching, something that had evidence of little steps to a larger goal, I get bored. S'why I could never finish Aria.
(I did, however, poke through the bits of the manga that haven't appeared in the anime, though, and I think with some certainty we will have glorious crossdressing Natsume in season four. If not, it's because they tried to wrangle up some ridiculous dramatic original ending involving the Matoba clan and I will barf.) For the first time, I think I actually want more of the same thing from last season. With the climax that he tells everyone he loves the truth and everyone is a happy family. Look, I don't even want anyone to die!
The tree youma one was delightful. I loved seeing grumpy little boy Natsume, though seeing inside a neglected little kids life is always tough. I love it when Yokai hug Natsume. He always gives them great big, meaningful hugs.
I love how Natsume is such a teenager. There's a lot of realistic characterization in this, and that's what excited me the most. Natsume has different kinds of friends, just like people do.
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