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\n\t\t<\/div>\nShoushimin Series 2nd Season \u2013 05<\/strong><\/p>\n
I don\u2019t know why it didn\u2019t strike me earlier, but I suppose the \u201cFireman\u201d arc is likely not going to take up this whole season. At least the vibe I\u2019m getting is that we\u2019re getting close to the climax of it. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s been announced how many episodes this season will be, but even if it\u2019s ten like S1 it\u2019s hard to see this arc stretching through all of it. Its natural momentum seems to be driving it towards an imminent conclusion.<\/p>\n
This has definitely been an upgrade over S1, largely because as I noted Osanai and Kobato work better as part of a platter than as the main course. Urino is such a contrast to them in every way that it\u2019s a very effective setup. This is a grand boy\u2019s adventure to him, and the hubris creeping into his articles is thick enough to cut with a knife. I don\u2019t dislike Takahiko, not remotely \u2013 I feel sorry for him if anything, because he\u2019s the most straightforward kid in the room and he\u2019s surrounded by far more duplicitous (and dangerous) operators.<\/p>\n
I definitely throw Hiya into that group. His best friend thing may or may not be an act (I think mostly not), and he may or may not be Fireman (I think he merely knows more than he\u2019s letting on and is enjoying the game). But he\u2019s playing with Takahiko, just as Yuki and Jougarou and Kengo are. Jougarou also has a truly hilarious breakup scene with Nakamura-san<\/a>, where she flat-out addresses how creepy he is with his eternal grin. It\u2019s been so obvious he didn\u2019t remotely care about her \u2013 is she really only know admitting it? She\u2019s not remotely on the high ground here, as she\u2019s triple-timing him. But what in the world has ever been in this for him?<\/p>\n
So we have Urino-kun convinced he knows who Fireman is, and \u2013 after a month hiatus due to a typhoon and another whiff after a fire \u2013 he\u2019s determined that this is the night. Of course whoever he thinks is the culprit is probably whoever (Jougarou himself?) Kobato and Doujima have led him to as part of their trap. And still Osanai sits at the center of her web, playing out the threads and watching the little flies get snagged. I\u2019m still pretty sure she\u2019s not Fireman herself, but she\u2019s probably the root cause of these fires one way or the other.<\/p>\n
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Anne Shirley \u2013 05<\/strong><\/p>\n
I feel like I\u2019m kind of at an impasse with Anne Shirley<\/em>. It\u2019s pleasant enough but it doesn\u2019t instill any particular feelings in me. It\u2019s tempting to write it off as not being the target audience, but I\u2019m pretty big on classical literature as a rule so no, I don\u2019t think that\u2019s it. I just don\u2019t find it to be particularly compelling, in this form at least.<\/p>\n
It that a matter of the subject material or the adaptation? I suppose one way to tell for sure would be to (finally) watch Takahata\u2019s Akage no An<\/em> (wow, not only losing her E but one of her Ns too). But my gut says it\u2019s more the latter. This show comes off very perceptibly as if it\u2019s going from Point A to Point B every week, without worrying too much about how it gets there. With stories like this the substance is in the details and the subtleties of the character relationships. Maybe if I already knew those things I wouldn\u2019t miss having them here \u2013 I could fill in the blanks myself. But I don\u2019t, so I see them as blanks. And I\u2019m very aware they exist.<\/p>\n
For now I\u2019ll keep watching and keep the door open as far as anything beyond that. I did like the bit about Matthew buying the dress<\/a> (even if it looked kind of ridiculous on her<\/a>, ROFL), especially his bashfulness at the shop, and there are usually one or two moments every week which make me chuckle. But that\u2019s pretty thin gruel in the big picture.<\/p>\n
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