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🔪 least fave anime you've had the displeasure of watching

negativity ask

i have quite the amount

Active Raid. i only watched some of it bc i wanted to see more anime with sho hayami and oh my god it sucks. do not recommend.

The Ancient Magus' Bride. grooming the anime. i thought it would get better.

Guilty Crown. not even ei aoki could save this ass plot.

Aldnoah.Zero. baby's first mecha. do not watch this anime unless you want brain damage. do not let it tempt you.

The Miyakawa Family's Hunger. i was happy to watch a lucky star adjacent anime, but it was just "child neglect but funny"

special mention: A Silent Voice. god it was ass. girl, leave these cunts, please.

ignore the last anime post cause i actually had to check since i couldn't remember exactly, but i've actually watched 10 new animes (counting their related movies as well)

in no particular order, this year i watched: Monster (it slapped but it went on for a bit too long imo) Samurai Champloo (i liked it but not enough to recommend it) Ajin: Demi-Human (an enormous disappointment, interesting concept that devolved into gunplay the anime and the art direction left a lot to be desired) Violet Evergarden (it's ok a lot of monologuing and i remember enjoying the character outfits and the scenery way more than the story) Neon Genesis Evangelion (it was good, that's all i have to say about it less i begin to spiral from how difficult it was for me to analyze it at first) Way of The House Husband (cute and hilarious, just a fun romp all the way through) The Miyakawa Family's Hunger (lucky star spin off, its v cute feels like more lucky star tbh lol) Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (only thing i knew about it was the school festival scene for a long time, but the whole anime kinda fucked and i loved how weird it was and haruhi's character is a whole thing worth unpacking) Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-chan (spin off of Haruhi that dropped the sci-fi elements and answered the question "what if it was just a classic high school anime instead", it was cute imo)

last one is Tokyo Ghoul which i haven't finished but s1 and s2 were great in my opinion and i think it presents a lot of interesting questions in regards to the ghouls and humans and how far can one go before they themselves become the thing they're fighting, how far can you go until you yourself are monstrous and this idea of the self and of losing it due to trauma and how trauma begets trauma and can even cause one to self harm which ends up inflicting even more trauma onto themselves (i could go on and on but this post already feels long)

So I just watched Miyakawa-Ke No Kuufuku

If you’ve never heard of this particular series, I don’t blame you. Miyakawa-Ke No Kuufuku, or “The Miyakawa Family’s Hunger,” is a spin-off of one of my absolute favorite series, Lucky Star.

Right off the bat, I wanna say this is probably the strangest way that a Lucky Star spin-off could have been taken. Lucky Star had plenty more characters and source material to draw from because of the manga, and I would have loved to see a spin-off regarding some of these background characters or maybe even something where we follow the main four’s adventures in college. What we ended up with was a mini-series of ten 2-minute episodes following the Miyakawas as they struggle through poverty.

I say this is the strangest way that a Lucky Star spin-off could have been gone because for all of the characters in Lucky Star, the ones who got a series were only seen in short moments of two episodes out of the 24 total. But while I think this series is definitely strange, the operative question here is “Does strange mean bad?”

Short answer, no.

For such a short series, I surprisingly have a lot to talk about with this one, and I think it’s best to start with the opening. Going in I knew this series wouldn’t be centered around the main Lucky Star cast so the transition from the opening to the actual show wasn’t overly jarring or disappointing. With that being said, however, it was a shame to see so much new animation of the Lucky Star girls not put to better use. It’s an opening that’s very quick to draw you in with its catchiness, and honestly I would say it’s better than Motteke Sailor Fuku. The main drawback is seeing what could have been, especially the moment where Nanako and Yui (my OTP, don’t judge me) are out drinking together.

That’s really where the disappointment ends, however. As much as I would have loved to see more of the main cast, I have to take this series for what it gives us, and what it gives us is pretty damn good. Before I decided to watch this series, I found myself wondering how they could stretch the concept of living in poverty into ten 22-minute comedic episodes. Imagine my surprise when I realized that each of these episodes were 20 minutes less than I previously imagined. As a result, everything is paced perfectly. No jokes feel drawn-out or awkward, and for a comedy show this is critical.

On the other hand, it’s funny in ways that it really shouldn’t be. It’s a bit depressing to think “Hey, I’m sitting here in my college dorm laughing at people struggling with poverty,” especially given the main characters’ pessimistic outlook on life. The idea of poverty being played for laughs is something that doesn’t particularly sit well with me, but I think this show does it about as well as one possibly could. I think a big part of this is the way that the characters’ thoughts shift from pessimism to optimism. You come away from each episode knowing that while they live in unfortunate circumstances, they aren’t desperate or unhappy.

A misconception I’ve seen several times with this show is that it paints the Lucky Star girls as spoiled rich kids, but if you look back at the original show I feel that it’s pretty obvious this isn’t the case. Not everyone lives in a mansion like Miyuki or Minami, they just live comfortably. One example I can point to is Konata. When she becomes excited over CompFest and hopes to buy a series of quo cards, what does she do? She goes out and gets a part-time job to raise the extra money. If everyone in the series lived the way the Takuras and Iwasakis did, there would have been no need for that. Also bear in mind that Konata seems to hold this job for quite some time, as it is referenced consistently throughout the series. Heck, even the rich girls run into their share of misfortune throughout Lucky Star. Now in comparison to the Miyakawas they’re a lot more well-off, but I wouldn’t go so far as to say spoiled.

Speaking of spoiled, there was one aspect of this series that I found slightly disillusioning. Thinking back to the moments where Hinata and Hikage appeared in the original series, it appeared that Hinata was the responsible sister while Hikage was the needy and spoiled one. It was strange to see that the spin-off wound up flipping the script, painting Hikage as the level-headed sibling while Hinata was the irresponsible otaku. It’s a minor complaint but I find that to be a strange decision.

Tangents aside, I did find this series to be enjoyable. The callbacks to Lucky Star were perfect, the humor is in the same vein as the original series (although not quite as effective) and the characters are charming in spite of their many faults. And I think that’s one great thing about the series. It’s incredibly human. I think Hinata and Hikage are quite relatable, even if they’re impoverished to a greater extent than most of us. They’re protagonists that we can resonate with, that we can point out our own flaws with, and aspire to be better with. Much like the Lucky Star girls, we can’t all live like Miyuki and Minami. So, as odd as I found this series to be, I would recommend it, especially if you enjoyed Lucky Star. It’s on Youtube.

I’m not gonna put this one on the tier list because it’s so damn short, but I’ll throw on a 7/10.

The Summer heat...