Yokuwakaru Gendaimahou, good one

Unfor­tu­nately this may be one of the last posts I write fre­quently, because tomor­row the hol­i­days will end and school, as to be expec­ted, will suck every last cre­ativ­ity out of me. Before, I wondered why I’m post­ing so rarely, one time per week and more, now I know: after you return from school, how­ever great your thoughts in your head may be, you can’t write them down. You feel tired, and move the task ‘until tomor­row.’ And the tomor­row some­times comes a month later… Any­way, that’s not exactly why I’m here right now: Yok­uwakaru Gendaima­hou, the silly anime where you don’t know whether some things were inten­ded or not, had ended. Well, that happened a while earlier but I fin­ished it only two days ago.

And what do I think? The wash basin joke didn’t get old after all. It’s a bit risky when you put such jokes into a con­sist­ent show. By con­sist­ent I mean that what hap­pens or appears, stays. A good example for incon­sist­ency is the Zucker broth­ers’ and Jim Abra­hams’ Air­plane!: They put a lot of jokes and puns into one scene, but let it be in the next one as if things never happened. This is a good style, and I like it — but when you put a joke into the core of a show and don’t use the incon­sist­ency style there’s a risk the joke will become lame and old, mak­ing people roll eyes (for example the Johnny joke in Eden of the East). So there, I say the wash basin joke was at the bor­der but man­aged to hold the forts till the end. All char­ac­ters were also cute, and even the little codes they’ve shown were real and not some noob stuff. To be hon­est I found all the rein­carn­a­tions talk con­fus­ing and too stretched, so for the story… It wasn’t big a deal but what mat­ters is that the show was a light watch, some­thing not to break the head about and relax.

The end epis­ode was a bit too stretched though, with Digitalis reas­on­ing her evil­ness with being alone, then get­ting a friend, becom­ing good, and yet still need­ing to go. If she had the power not to kill Koyomi and to act good at the end, why didn’t she stay?

And at last, the mage-killer abil­ity, I shall call it the Kyon-syndrome. Scep­ti­cism is migh­tier than any magic!

Good show, like it.

Fur­ther reading

• My first impressions
• My second impressions
• What got me into the series